Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Amber 0.22-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Simone Tripodi
Thanks a lot in advance Matthew, very appreciated! -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: -Original

Re: [VOTE] Approve Openmeetings (Incubating) release

2012-07-26 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: HI Alexei, It seems that you have sent various requests in advance of this one through channels other than general@. This is not appreciated by busy people who do read general@. Please have patience, the Incubator

Re: [VOTE] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Fabio Martelli
Il giorno 25/lug/2012, alle ore 18.16, Jean-Baptiste Onofré ha scritto: Hi Fabio, I'm taking a look. Thanks for the reminder. Thank you Jean-Baptiste. We will wait for your review. Kind regards, F. Regards JB On 07/25/2012 06:01 PM, Fabio Martelli wrote: Hi IPMC members, sorry for

Re: [VOTE] Approve Openmeetings (Incubating) release

2012-07-26 Thread Alexei Fedotov
Dave, tanks for the tip. I highly respect all Apache members (regardless of actual member status) and their (your, our) time. I thank all the thread participants who find their time to help the release despite being busy and those who wrote a private reply as well. As for the patience, the

Re: [VOTE] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Fabio Martelli
Il giorno 25/lug/2012, alle ore 18.16, Jean-Baptiste Onofré ha scritto: Hi Fabio, I'm taking a look. Thanks for the reminder. Regards JB Thank you Jean-Baptiste. We will wait for your review. Kind regards, F. On 07/25/2012 06:01 PM, Fabio Martelli wrote: Hi IPMC members, sorry

Re: Fwd: [VOTE] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
+1 (binding) The RC3 looks good (check the content, etc). Good job guys Regards JB On 07/25/2012 06:01 PM, Fabio Martelli wrote: Hi IPMC members, sorry for the disturb but Apache Syncope needs your review. We still need just one vote. Please, let us have your feedbacks/votes for

Re: Fwd: [VOTE] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
+1 (binding) The release looks good to me (I sent an e-mail just after the review but it seems that my e-mail has been lost). Great job guys Regards JB On 07/25/2012 06:01 PM, Fabio Martelli wrote: Hi IPMC members, sorry for the disturb but Apache Syncope needs your review. We still need

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating Released

2012-07-26 Thread Carol Frampton at Apache
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating! Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash Platform-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. This is the first release under the Incubator of the Apache

Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, The Incubator ships about half a dozen releases each month on average, but our release process is notoriously lengthy, fraught with problems, and badly documented. If this was any other project, we'd have had a well-oiled release process in place already years ago. Much of our extra release

[RESULT] [VOTE] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating

2012-07-26 Thread Fabio Martelli
Hi all, after 72 hours, the vote for Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating [1] *passes* with 3 IPMC + 0 non-IPMC votes. +1 (IPMC / binding) * Colm O hEigeartaigh (vote given via syncope-dev mailing list) * Emmanuel Lécharny (vote given via syncope-dev mailing list) * Jean-Baptiste Onofré +1 (non

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
I like the idea, but I suggest to do it in a different way: Why not to have volunteers who are already mentoring different podlings with different sizes of both number of people and the size of code base, these mentors then volunteer: 1- Update the release process docs 2- Report their their

Apache OpenMeetings 2.0 Incubating released

2012-07-26 Thread Sebastian Wagner
We are happy to announce Version 2.0 of Apache OpenMeetings Incubating! Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. This is

[ANN] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating released

2012-07-26 Thread Fabio Martelli
The Apache Syncope team is pleased to announce the release of Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating from the Apache Incubator. Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology . The release will be available within 24h

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: For example, our current release guide [1] is the result of quite a bit of work, but without a clear vision accompanied with a process of incremental improvements it's become a mess that few people read, let alone

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
Ditto. From: Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Incubator release task force On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: For

Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, The standard podling report deadline of the first Wednesday of a month would fall already to next week on August 1st. Since that's a bit soon, doesn't play too well with the automatic report reminders, and since the August board meeting will take place only on the 28th instead of the

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Gary Martin
As someone who is currently attempting to go through their first release, I am not really in the category of someone who could be in such a taskforce. However, I am very interested in seeing an improvement in the release documentation. I would certainly consider looking back over my recent

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Greg Stein
Jukka, Your dates are incorrect. We intend to have a regular Board meeting on the 15th, and an abbreviated in-person meeting on the 28th. Cheers, Greg Stein Director, ASF On Jul 26, 2012 12:16 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The standard podling report deadline of the

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Ah, thanks for the correction! I got confused from seeing only the agenda file for the latter date in svn. Given that the board meeting is on normal schedule, the podling reports should also be submitted normally by next Wednesday, August 1st. I'll update the wiki page accordingly. What's

Re: [VOTE] Approve Openmeetings (Incubating) release

2012-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
I don't think you need another IPMC vote, but just in case... +1 (I too noted most of the minor points Jukka makes and hope these will be resolved in the next release) You guys worked hard on this one - great work. On 23 July 2012 11:03, Alexei Fedotov alexei.fedo...@gmail.com wrote: The

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
Yes the reminder script is fine.  I'll send the reminders out pronto. From: Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Preparing for August report

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
I made an observation in the board meeting last night that there were too many reports not being signed off by mentors. The board acknowledged that this is an issue being addressed by the new process put in place by Jukka and it was not a board issue. So, as an IPMC member I again request that the

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Joe Schaefer wrote: Yes the reminder script is fine. I'll send the reminders out pronto. Perfect, thanks! BR, Jukka Zitting From: Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com javascript:; To: general@incubator.apache.org

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
Great idea. For those interested in helping the documentation side of this you might find the task oriented documenation that the Rave project developed during incubation useful. This has already been successfully adopted by at least two other podlings. Of course it is project and build tool

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I made an observation in the board meeting last night that there were too many reports not being signed off by mentors. The board acknowledged that this is an issue being addressed by the new process put in

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: ... We've had a couple of other cases of also other shepherd's missing their reviews. I've tried to cover up the best I can by reviewing and at least classifying all reports on which no shepherd feedback is seen, but

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Gary... On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Gary Martin gary.mar...@wandisco.comwrote: As someone who is currently attempting to go through their first release, I am not really in the category of someone who could be in such a taskforce. However, I am very interested in seeing an improvement

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: My basic point here is to not worry too much about some IPMC people not performing reviews, as long as you have ample numbers in the first place. I'm mostly worried about the ample numbers being close to zero at times.

Re: Preparing for August report

2012-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
I think bringing shepherds comments here is good and don't want to change that (consider this the equivalent of discussing in the board meeting). By calling for brief comments in the report I'm just hoping to set a reminder for following shepherds. Consider this roughly equivalent to action items

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Upayavira
Marvin, While I (think I) can understand your concern (that it should be the mentors who are reviewing releases, not yet another group), I'd suggest that Jukka's approach might be a way to get there. The incubator release process is, at the moment, pretty fraught, and I suspect there are only a

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Marvin, While I (think I) can understand your concern (that it should be the mentors who are reviewing releases, not yet another group), I'd suggest that Jukka's approach might be a way to get there. The incubator release

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
From: Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Incubator release task force Marvin, While I (think I) can understand your concern (that it should be the mentors who are reviewing releases,

Fwd: [ANN] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating released

2012-07-26 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
This seems very odd to me, certainly unusual among Apache projects. The -dev and -user lists (and even general@incubator) are used to announce that a release candidate is available and should be tested for readiness to become an actual release. Some projects use differently-numbered alpha and

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Incubator release task force Marvin, While I (think I) can understand your concern

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Incubator release task force On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: From:

Re: Fwd: [ANN] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating released

2012-07-26 Thread Emmanuel Lécharny
Bill, the very first incubating project that posted a mail on announce@a.o was Tuscany, back in 2007... In the past 5 years, just checking the incubating projects having used annouance@a.o, I see 140 messages. 18/5/2007 : [ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany SDO Java 1.0-incubating-beta1 released

Re: Fwd: [ANN] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-RC3-incubating released

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
I believe Bill is complaining not about the venue, but the choice of referring to this package as a release candidate instead of simply dropping the RC portion of the package name like other projects typically do with approved candidates. - Original Message - From: Emmanuel Lécharny

Re: Creating a project dir under /www/incubator.apache.org/content?

2012-07-26 Thread Joe Schaefer
infrastructure@ preferably by filing a jira ticket against INFRA related to either a CMS request or an svnpubsub one. - Original Message - From: Josh Wills jwi...@apache.org To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:49 PM Subject: Creating a project dir

Re: Creating a project dir under /www/incubator.apache.org/content?

2012-07-26 Thread Josh Wills
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.comwrote: infrastructure@ preferably by filing a jira ticket against INFRA related to either a CMS request or an svnpubsub one. Got it-- thanks! - Original Message - From: Josh Wills jwi...@apache.org To:

Re: Incubator release task force

2012-07-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: For those interested in helping the documentation side of this you might find the task oriented documenation that the Rave project developed during incubation useful. This has already been successfully adopted by

Universal release docs

2012-07-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Greets, The ASF is technology-neutral: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator It must be noted that the incubator (just like the board) does not perform filtering on the basis of technical issues. This is because the foundation respects and suggests variety of

Re: Universal release docs

2012-07-26 Thread Luciano Resende
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: Greets, The ASF is technology-neutral: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator It must be noted that the incubator (just like the board) does not perform filtering on the basis of