Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-15 Thread Ralph Goers
+1 (binding) Everything looks fine and the build worked for me. However, I do find it odd that the online documentation references a binary distribution yet none is present on the web site below. On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Eric Yang wrote: This is a reminder to vote Chukwa 0.5.0 release

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Sam, My personal perspective is that incubation shouldn't generally take more than a year. The problem is with small communities.  What do you

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I accept there might be some poddlings where the mentors are AWOL but most of the ones I know of the mentors are actually paying attention but there is only so much mentors can do if the poddling isn't very active.

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Ross Gardler
On 15 January 2012 12:12, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I accept there might be some poddlings where the mentors are AWOL but most of the ones I know of the mentors are actually paying attention but

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Sam Ruby
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I accept there might be some poddlings where the mentors are AWOL but most of the ones I know of the mentors are actually paying attention

Re: Podling rename, vote needed?

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: ...As discussed during the Callback proposal phase [1], the podling community wasn't too certain about the Callback name and thus

Re: Podling rename, vote needed?

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:48 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On a related matter, how is the rename being handled for the various incubator data files, web-pages, mailing lists etc.? We're still working on

Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Monteith stuk...@stoo.me.uk wrote: snip I'll back up what Ant said - Robert and Ant have shown heroic patience as mentors on this project. The situation will resolve itself one

Re: [VOTE] - Relase Apache Clerezza 0.2-incubating (RC4)

2012-01-15 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmür
Thank you for reviewing the release candidate I'm not sure what the issue with the source distribution is: the module web.resources.yui mentions the yahoo copyright in the notice file and the bsd license is included. I guess this should also be the case for the launchers and thus the binary

Re: Droids status (Was: Actively retiring projects)

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Richard Frovarp rfrov...@apache.org wrote: snip You say it isn't active enough for a TLP. My question is what constitutes active enough? Basically one that meets the criteria

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
It is good that someone finally explained their opinion of a mentor's responsibility to the IPMC out in the open.  Let me disagree with you that mentors are not supposed to be put in the position of judging whether or not a podling is actually making progress or not.  If mentors don't do that, who

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: It is good that someone finally explained their opinion of a mentor's responsibility to the IPMC out in the open.  Let me disagree with you that mentors are not supposed to be put in the position of judging whether or

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Joe Schaefer wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 08:48:02 -0800: Why do we need these obscure notions to characterize a failed incubation effort?  Can't we be adults and say it simply didn't work out, no harm no foul, best of luck in your future endeavors elsewhere? I sure hope we aren't going to

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread ant elder
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Now to go back and answer Ant's question directly, Sam, what you replied doesn't really answer my question directly. The issue with the long term poddlings which I know about is not that their reports are not read, they are

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
I don't see why.  When you apply to a university you either receive an acceptance letter or a letter of regret; we don't have to make any other distinctions regarding our internal reasons either.  Simply part ways amicably and help them thru the exit door, no matter if they were chronic policy

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)] On Sun,

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread ant elder
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: It is good that someone finally explained their opinion of a mentor's responsibility to the IPMC out in the open.  Let me disagree with you that mentors are not supposed to be put in the position of judging whether or

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)] On Sun,

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:12 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)] On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:48

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was:

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
True, but decisions can't be delegated to individuals, only tasks.  Robert conveniently blurs the two. - Original Message - From: Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:24

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Last time I looked, mentors were delegated this duty by the IPMC. If not, let's go ahead and do that just to add clarity. It's indeed pretty clearly documented already:

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Relevant difference: when we reject a project we do that on public lists, when you apply to a university the fact you did so is private. Joe Schaefer wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:03:45 -0800: I don't see why.  When you apply to a university you either receive an acceptance letter or a

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
I think the email trail will be fairly clear one way or the other, and hence still oppose adding more labels to the situation. - Original Message - From: Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Benson Margulies
I would appreciate it if the participants in this discussion would be really clear about their views about several different podling profiles. a: A reasonably diverse group of 5-7 people start a podling. A year later, they've made a release or two, but no one new has turned up. Mentors attest to

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
You didn't annoy me Benson, I think you're spot on, +1. Cheers, Chris On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: I would appreciate it if the participants in this discussion would be really clear about their views about several different podling profiles. a: A reasonably diverse

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:01 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Now to go back and answer Ant's question directly, Sam, what you replied doesn't really answer my question directly. The issue with the long term

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Robert... On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Monteith stuk...@stoo.me.uk wrote: snip I'll back up what Ant said -

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
I wish we could get past the whole idea that we are punishing a podling by insisting that they take their work to say github instead.  They probably can keep the name since we have no interest in it ourselves. We maintain an open-door policy for new projects, and I think that is a good thing that

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.comwrote: It is good that someone finally explained their opinion of a mentor's responsibility to the IPMC out in the open. Let me disagree with you that mentors are not supposed to be put in the position of judging whether or

[jira] [Created] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Created) (JIRA)
Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name --- Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4 Project: Podling Suitable Names Search

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.namewrote: Joe Schaefer wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 08:48:02 -0800: Why do we need these obscure notions to characterize a failed incubation effort? Can't we be adults and say it simply didn't work out, no harm no foul,

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com To:

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Schaefer
I'd like to suggest that whatever rules we come up with are derived from actual cases we've seen over our time here.  Robert is not alone by any stretch, he's just clueful enough to be willing to be open and honestabout it. I'd have no problems supporting a podling whose mentors review their

[jira] [Updated] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Burrell Donkin updated PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: -- Evidence Of Open Source Adoption: Searched for

[jira] [Updated] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Burrell Donkin updated PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: -- Evidence Of Registration: Searched for creadur using

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Ross Gardler
+1 Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Jan 15, 2012 6:18 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: I wish we could get past the whole idea that we are punishing a podling by insisting that they take their work to say github instead. They probably can keep

[jira] [Updated] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Burrell Donkin updated PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: -- Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web: Searched for

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13186571#comment-13186571 ] Robert Burrell Donkin commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: --- I

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Sam Ruby
+1 On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: +1 Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Jan 15, 2012 6:18 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: I wish we could get past the whole idea that we are punishing a podling

Apache Creator suitability [WAS Re: [jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name]

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
I don't speak welsh or german (beyond a few words), so I relied on automated translations. Please review and jump in with comments if you find any mistakes. Robert On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin (Commented) (JIRA) j...@apache.org wrote:    [

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:12:47PM +0100, Jukka Zitting wrote: In the recent years we've spent a lot of time focusing on procedural and legal details, while community building and social dynamics haven't gotten much attention. Perhaps we should start looking at how to build up that aspect of

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Christian Grobmeier (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13186587#comment-13186587 ] Christian Grobmeier commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: -

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: +1 Voting to terminate a project through lack of success sends a very clear message. Being 'terminated' is a very clear and public punishment, both for Mentors and for the project. IMO termination should be used only as a

Help Wanted: Improved Podling Name Search Documentation

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
The current status task related to trademarks doesn't play well with the new trademark rules, and doesn't describe in detail how to go about a search I've done a couple of searches[2] and [3], plus an early draft of a guide [1] I'd be great if people could take a look and dive in with

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13186594#comment-13186594 ] Robert Burrell Donkin commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4: ---

Re: Q: including notice for binary release of artifacts that are brought in via Maven?

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Jakob Homan jgho...@apache.org wrote: What are the mechanics for having two NOTICE/LICENSE files for one release? If you're using Maven and the Apache parent POM, you can put

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2012-01-15 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi... On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, What's the status of this effort? I went through all the older-than-year podlings identified by Sam for a quick (i.e. incomplete) review of the project status. See below for my summary (S) and subjective

Re: Apache Creator suitability [WAS Re: [jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name]

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Other than the typo in the subject line of this email? Robert Burrell Donkin wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 20:00:26 +: I don't speak welsh or german (beyond a few words), so I relied on automated translations. Please review and jump in with comments if you find any mistakes. Robert

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Ross Gardler
On 15 January 2012 20:55, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: +1 Voting to terminate a project through lack of success sends a very clear message. Being 'terminated' is a very clear and public

Re: Actively retiring projects

2012-01-15 Thread Sam Ruby
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: +1 Excessive snippage violation. Voting to terminate a project through lack of success sends a very clear message. Being

Re: Apache Creator suitability [WAS Re: [jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-4) Establish Whether Apache Creadur would be a Suitable Name]

2012-01-15 Thread David Crossley
Daniel Shahaf wrote: Other than the typo in the subject line of this email? :-) classic. That actually might happen a bit. Oh well, this email thread associates them. Robert, thanks for your efforts. The new name is excellent. -David Robert Burrell Donkin wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at