Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Eric Yang
Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in pre-defeined time limit. There is no software that is gong to succeed in this evaluation other than commercial software. Paid developers are

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Eric Yang eric...@gmail.com wrote: Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in pre-defeined time limit. Chukwa has soon spent four years incubating, with

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Chukwa has soon spent four years incubating, with the activity level dropping off significantly after the first year or two. Sorry, correction: Chukwa has been incubating since July 2010 after being a part of

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...growing communities is really, really, hard, and I don't know that anyone at Apache has a recipe. If anyone does, it might be the comdev committee... I agree with this, the incubator is busy enough helping

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:55 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...I still think forced retirement doesn't seem the right thing in this case so my -1 stands. In the other thread Alan now seems open to giving them another try, i've offered to help with that (any other offers of help?),

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Bernd Fondermann bernd.fonderm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: This is exactly what we did for the last months (years, actually). Give it yet more time. Honestly, I don't understand why

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: If people who -1 the retirement agree to mentor Chukwa to give it another chance, like you seem to be ready to do, I have no problem with that. As usual a -1 should be backed by a credible alternative. I'm

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: If people who -1 the retirement agree to mentor Chukwa to give it another chance, like you seem to be ready to do, I have no

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Yegor Kozlov
Google Summer of Code is an excellent opportunity to attract fresh blood to your project and it is a good practice for a podling to participate. GSoC students are potential committers, there will be a splash of discussion on your @dev list, the podling will be promoted, etc. - actually all

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
One interesting point about consensus decision-making process is the need to define the starting point. The process assumes that there is a clear 'status quo', and that a consensus is required to change it. This may not always be the appropriate way to think about retiring a podling, but it's

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: One interesting point about consensus decision-making process is the need to define the starting point. The process assumes that there is a clear 'status quo', and that a consensus is required to change it. This

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator

2012-11-27 Thread Suresh Marru
+ 1 (binding). All the best as TLP, Suresh On Nov 22, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: ...This is a call for vote to graduate the Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator... We need to

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator

2012-11-27 Thread Christian Grobmeier
+1 (binding) have fun! On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: This is a call for vote to graduate the Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator. Apache Flex entered the Incubator in December of 2011. We have made significant progress with the project since

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Eric Yang eric...@gmail.com wrote: Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in pre-defeined time limit. There is no software that is gong to succeed in this

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Suresh Marru
On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Eric Yang eric...@gmail.com wrote: Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in pre-defeined time limit. There is no software that is gong to succeed in this

Welcome Andrew Hart to the IPMC

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Andrew Hart has joined the Incubator PMC. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Welcome Craig McClanahan in his continued membership in the IPMC

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Craig is returning to active duty as a mentor. He never actually quite managed to leave this PMC, but anyhow we're happy to see him around. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional

Re: Welcome Andrew Hart to the IPMC

2012-11-27 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Welcome aboard Andrew. Regards JB On 11/27/2012 02:41 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Andrew Hart has joined the Incubator PMC. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Welcome Craig McClanahan in his continued membership in the IPMC

2012-11-27 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Welcome back Craig ;) Regards JB On 11/27/2012 02:44 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Craig is returning to active duty as a mentor. He never actually quite managed to leave this PMC, but anyhow we're happy to see him around. - To

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
As chair of the IPMC, I do not think that it is appropriate to have a vote to continue incubation for six months, with no consideration of success in between. I think that it would be reasonable to put aside the vote to retire, and expect a plan, with contributions from more than one non-mentor,

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
+1, and I think we can close it. As I see it, a hand with three mentors beats 5 other members :-) On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: +1 (binding) have fun! On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: This is a call for

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
The more the merrier! :) Regards, Alan On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:50 PM, ant elder wrote: Great to hear, one month seemed too short to accomplish so much. I'd be happy to volunteer as another mentor if some fresh eyes will help. ...ant On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Alan Cabrera

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Eric Yang wrote: Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in pre-defeined time limit. There is no software that is gong to succeed in this evaluation other than

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:55 PM, ant elder wrote: I'd hope we can demonstrate finding consensus rather than using the vote to resolve this. I still think forced retirement doesn't seem the right thing in this case so my -1 stands. In the other thread Alan now seems open to giving them

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alexei Fedotov
Hello guys, I want to understand Chukwa community building strategy better. Are there any insights why companies which use Hadoop (in Moscow those include Deutche Bank, Yandex, Rambler and Microsoft) do not crowd around or stay in line to get a chance to use Chukwa? -- With best regards / с

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:55 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...I still think forced retirement doesn't seem the right thing in this case so my -1 stands. In the other thread Alan now seems open to giving them another try,

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: If people who -1 the retirement agree to mentor Chukwa to give it another chance, like you seem to be ready to do, I have no problem with that. As

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: While I think that it's laudable for IPMC members to step in and offer to mentor, we should remember the danger of becoming a crutch... Definitely - the goal of an incubation mentor should be to become redundant, as

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Bernd Fondermann bernd.fonderm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: This is exactly what we did for the last months (years,

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...I will remind the IPMC that seven months ago the specter of retirement was raised. A lengthy discussion ensued. Consensus was garnered. We even added committers with the hopes of infusing new energy into the

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:57 AM, ant elder wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: If people who -1 the retirement agree to mentor Chukwa to give it another

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:23 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:55 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hope we can demonstrate finding consensus rather than using the vote to resolve this. I still think forced retirement doesn't seem the right thing in this case

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
Benson, I will remind the IPMC that seven months ago the specter of retirement was raised. A lengthy discussion ensued. Consensus was garnered. We even added committers with the hopes of infusing new energy into the project. Sometimes, you just can't get ultimate consensus on retirement and

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: I will accept the voting result from IPMC, and I wish IPMC would use better human sense to enable future project to flourish. This sounds like you're frustrated with your mentors. I'm sorry for that and take part of the responsibility

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...I will remind the IPMC that seven months ago the specter of retirement was raised. A lengthy discussion ensued. Consensus was garnered. We even added

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya nandana@gmail.com wrote: Thinking in general not on this specific case, may be we can define a formal warning for retirement for podlings where the PPMC has to come up with a concrete plans for the next six months and some

RE: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Ross Gardler
-Original Message- From: Alan Cabrera [mailto:l...@toolazydogs.com] Sent: 27 November 2012 14:30 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: What constitute a successful project? On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...URLs? My brain's too small to remember all these discussions ;-) It's on the private Chukwa list. How can I get these URLs?... Message-ID is fine in this case

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Alan, I get that. I'm supposed to be more the admin support here than the autocrat. I'm trying to help the IPMC find a consensus position -- within the parameters of the IPMC's mission. I have no problem with that position being retirement. I am prepared for it to be a brief extension, and I am

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: What is described above is exactly what mentors should be doing in an informal way. What Alan says happened below is what is proposed above. I've not been following the project and can't agree or disagree with Alan's interpretation of

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread ant elder
Unless there are compelling reason to stop, i.e continuing breaches of basic ASF polices and principles, then where possible letting a poddling continue incubation or just graduate seems better to me than making them go elsewhere. Its not like a small slow problem is chewing up ASF resources, but

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...URLs? My brain's too small to remember all these discussions ;-) It's on the private Chukwa list.

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:16 AM, ant elder wrote: Unless there are compelling reason to stop, i.e continuing breaches of basic ASF polices and principles, then where possible letting a poddling continue incubation or just graduate seems better to me than making them go elsewhere. Its not like a

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Suresh Marru
Apologies for the cross post, but I am including press since Eric has some constructive observations here. On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:44 AM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: I'm mostly just a lurker on this list, having thought about bringing a project to Apache about 24 months ago[1],

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, November 25, 2012, Alan Cabrera wrote: Hi, The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. Following the retirement guide [1], I now call the Incubator PMC to vote on confirming this decision.

[RESULT][VOTE] Graduate Apache Flex Podling from Apache Incubator

2012-11-27 Thread Alex Harui
The IPMC has approved the proposal to recommend the resolution to the Board. Results: 8 +1 votes, no 0 votes, no -1 votes. +1 Bertrand Delacretaz (IPMC) +1 Greg Reddin (IPMC) +1 Dave Fisher (IPMC) +1 Chris A. Mattman (IPMC) +1 Alan Cabrera (IPMC) +1 Suresh Marru (IPMC) +1 Christian Grobmeier

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Growing community is about getting the message out there. There has to be someone in the project who wants to do that. Some techniques are: - press - community events - mentoring (that is mentoring of potential

Mentor needed for Hadoop Development Tools

2012-11-27 Thread Adam Berry
Hi IPMC members, we find ourselves in need of an additional mentor for this project, which we are currently in the process of on boarding. You can see the proposal on the wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HadoopDevelopmentToolsProposal. Cheers, Adam

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: My thought here is that ComDev is a source of useful advice, not a group of people to do the work. +1, not only ComDev, but actually IPMC as well, as it's actually the PMC that has the most experience with regards

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: I wonder if we can ask that incubation proposals include how they intend to get the message out there. What channels are relevant for the project? I guess what are their marketing plans. Eventually, we'd have a

Re: Mentor needed for Hadoop Development Tools

2012-11-27 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi Adam, I am in general interested on the distributed application debugging. I can see some overlap with Airavata project as well. I think I can help out and volunteer to mentor the project. Cheers, Suresh On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Adam Berry ambe...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Hi IPMC

RE: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Forgot a couple for the list... Lucy is running a book club - they meet on Google Hangouts and discuss how an appropriate book chapter might apply to their project. This was recently reported in their board report and early feedback is very positive. OpenOffice are building a course for new

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Sally Khudairi
Thanks, Suresh. Hello Eric, Ross, and IPMC members. We --ASF Marketing Publicity-- are happy to work with any (P)PMC on a project's publicity once the project has graduated from the Incubator. We can issue a press release to announce the graduation --similar to [1], [2], and [3]. Once you're

Re: Mentor needed for Hadoop Development Tools

2012-11-27 Thread Adam Berry
Fantastic, thanks for the offer. Could you add your information to the proposal wiki, or go ahead and send it to me and I'll add it. Cheers, Adam On Nov 27, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: Hi Adam, I am in general interested on the distributed application debugging. I can see

Re: Mentor needed for Hadoop Development Tools

2012-11-27 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 great to hear that you are on board, Suresh. Cheers, Chris On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Adam Berry wrote: Fantastic, thanks for the offer. Could you add your information to the proposal wiki, or go ahead and send it to me and I'll add it. Cheers, Adam On Nov 27, 2012, at 2:41

Re: Mentor needed for Hadoop Development Tools

2012-11-27 Thread Suresh Marru
Thanks Chris, realized I will be in good company which added to my motivation :) Hi Adam, I added myself to the wiki. Looking forward for the project to take life, Suresh On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: +1 great to hear that you

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Eric Yang
Hi Alan, In Wink, you voted +1, and in Chukwa, you voted -1. While the status are similar between Chukwa and Wink, but what is the logic behind your votes? In addition, Chukwa and Kafka are similar, and some Kafka design are borrowed from Chukwa. Does your relationship with Kafka influence

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Eric Yang
Hi Suresh, Anymore time spend in incubator is not productive. Developers would feel threaten by the fact that the project is coming to the end and stop contributing. I think the only way forward is to vote for graduation or setup shop on github. IPMC can make good decisions when they are well

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Eric Yang wrote: snip/ The various comparisons are distractions. Let's focus on Chukwa and what can be done. If we are going to move forward, more time in incubation is not a realistic option. The only way is vote for graduation and avoid the vicious cycle of

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-27 Thread Eric Yang
Continue the retirement vote, and see if it passes in IPMC. If it does, I will gladly setup shop in github. If it doesn't, Chukwa community should prepare for Chukwa 0.6.0 release, and start voting on Chukwa 0.6.0 release, and follow by vote for graduation. Content in Chukwa trunk contains a

RE: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Forgot a few for the list... Lucy is running a book club - they meet on Google Hangouts and discuss how an appropriate book chapter might apply to their project. This was recently reported in their board report and early feedback is very positive. OpenOffice are building a course for new

RE: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Sorry ignore this one, duplicate caused by still sleeping tablet user Sent from my tablet On Nov 28, 2012 7:38 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Forgot a few for the list... Lucy is running a book club - they meet on Google Hangouts and discuss how an appropriate book