Re: [VOTE] Recommend retirement for NPanday poddling

2015-01-23 Thread Dave Fisher
+1 (binding) On Jan 21, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: This is a vote on recommending a retirement option for the NPanday poddling. It comes on the hills of the general consensus of the NPanday community and its mentors that retirement is the only viable path at this point:

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down. Just this week, you messaged a PMC asking if they had enough actives. There is ample precedent for us detecting and working through inactivity. On Jan 23, 2015 9:46 AM, Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, I really would feel unhappy being cut out of the loop Time for my weekly musings. Sorry, no oaths and

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 23, 2015 8:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, I really would feel unhappy

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
+1 to both of these points from Greg. ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email:

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't have a problem with a report like that going out

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. OK, I’ll accept that, but if executed correctly, the current Incubator probably doesn’t

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down,

my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. No offense but how can

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: All that being said, while I will (and already did two years ago) support some experimentation with the pTLP model I still feel that an Incubator with teeth scales better. But we wouldn't know until

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: ... Time is on the side of those who think shepherd institution should die. It would be better if it died quickly, vacating the report review mindspace and making way for Mentor commentary supplemented by

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: As ASF member *should* know that empowering the ones doing the work is the Apache Way. A good member who is a mentor will ensure that they unblock anything that prevents those doing the work having the

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Alex Haruimailto:aha...@adobe.com Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 12:06 PM To:

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
As ASF member *should* know that empowering the ones doing the work is the Apache Way. A good member who is a mentor will ensure that they unblock anything that prevents those doing the work having the influence. Look, theoretically, the board have ultimate power over all the projects at the

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:51 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view On Fri,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
I find the direction this discussion has gone personally disappointing, but I might be missing understanding of some crucial point. 2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members. committers can be ​ ​ chosen however the community decides. but the *project* is reviewed by ​ people with

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
No, the PMC is *not* the driving force. The project community is, even where the PMC is a subset of the committers. Since it is the set of active *contributors* that are important, they are the ones doing the work. I don't understand your argument about releases. Nothing changes under under

my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On Saturday, January 24, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: No, the PMC is *not* the driving force. The project community is, even where the PMC is a subset of the committers. Since it is the set of

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:18 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Saturday, January 24, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: No, the PMC is *not* the driving force. The project community is, even

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. OK, I'll accept

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:18 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Remember we talk rules here, and rules should be made so the reflect what we want, and I believe it is important that the community is represented in the PMC, not 100% but also not 0%. I still don't understand what's the extra bit

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: Those of us in such a new incoming community might get the commit bit but can't vote on adding committers, See my reply to Jan. C == PPMC solves this completely. or making releases. This is *exactly* what is happening

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
You are approaching this question with complete trust and faith in the Apache process, being an Apache member, but an incoming / foreign community will not have this, not universally. Take the emotion out of this, because I certainly am not being emotional here, but instead trying to evaluate this

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Hi Greg, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing stopping the IPMC from designating certain Mentors as shepherds for their podlings. Having volunteers step forward as dedicated shepherds for individual podlings would be helpful. On its own,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: ... project, they become a PPMC, a podling. Sure, the IPMC provides oversight, and the board again, but the PPMC can make binding votes on committers, releases, everything that matters - provisionally, of course, which

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: Hi Greg, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing stopping the IPMC from designating certain Mentors as shepherds for their podlings. Having volunteers step forward

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
What makes you think the PPMC today had more influence than the contributors to a pushing? Votes have been mentioned, but votes remain the same. Despite what people on this thread are saying PPMC members do not have a binding vote. That does not change. Besides, the whole thing is moot

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. And a good manager is a Mentor ;-) Niclas

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Mattmann
+1000. My view too and with my support too. -Original Message- From: Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org, Chris Mattmann mattm...@apache.org, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com Subject: my pTLP

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
I would support it as an experiment. I will support it because it is one of the few actionable suggestions on the table. My caution has been expressed elsewhere. So I'll summarize as a reminder: 1) I supported just such an experiment a couple of years ago. It didn't go well (not disastrous,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Roman kicked off a query about next steps, with links to several wiki pages on possibilities. The IncubatorV2 page which describes a probationary TLP is nothing like I have thought about. In my mind, a pTLP looks *exactly* like

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...1. probationary text is prominent,... ...2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members... I like that proposal, it's simple and looks actionable. The only worry is what happens if the ASF Members on the PMC

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: If you would like to characterize shepherds as cross-cutting mentors-at-large, I wouldn't disagree. It's costly to produce such

RE: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
To confirm I was referring to TLPs, personally I don't spend anywhere near as much time on podling reports, as Bertrand indicates that's delegated today. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Bertrand Delacretazmailto:bdelacre...@apache.org Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 1:22 AM