Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ...The Apache Members are coming in as the PMC. This is a much more serious commitment than being a Mentor. The pTLP is not an IPMC

Re: [DISCUSS] Solicitation for IPMC Chair nomination

2015-01-26 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Hi! after making sure that there's still an Incubator to be managed for the next 6-12 months, I'd like to open up a discussion thread on soliciting nominations for the next IPMC Chair. Feel free to self-nominate or

[QUESTION] Importing a project from GitHub

2015-01-26 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Dear Incubator, (if this isn’t the right list to ask this, please direct be to the correct place). The CouchDB community was approached by the lead developer of https://github.com/dscape/nano to have the project become apart of Apache CouchDB. The community has voiced some interest in

Re: [DISCUSS] Solicitation for IPMC Chair nomination

2015-01-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Things to keep in mind while thinking about nominating yourself or others: 1. This is a 6-12 months commitment that, based on my personal experience, would require you to allocate 7-10 hours per week.

Re: [DISCUSS] Solicitation for IPMC Chair nomination

2015-01-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
+1 for Ted Dunning. Ted has passion for the Incubator's mission. He is an excellent consensus builder, with the right mix of patience and advocacy. He can get the job done while sending judicious amounts of email, which is important in keeping traffic on general@incubator under control. He is

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
It's an *option* not the only route. Working for some but not others is just fine. Ross -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 11:23 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Chris Mattmann; Jim Jagielski Subject: Re: my pTLP view I

Re: [VOTE] Recommend retirement for NPanday poddling

2015-01-26 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
+1 [sadly] On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 02:13PM, 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: [DISCUSS] Solicitation for IPMC Chair nomination

2015-01-26 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Things to keep in mind while thinking about nominating yourself or others: 1. This is a 6-12 months commitment that, based on my

Re: IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform: where do we go from here

2015-01-26 Thread Chris Douglas
+1; this is a pragmatic proposal. -C On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Hi! I think it would be fair to say that in the past month or so we've had a healthy amount of discussion around where to go next with IPMC/Incubator/Metors reform. A diverse set

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
TL;DR I think this is a good idea. I thought long and hard about this during the weekend and I’ve changed my mind about this; I’ll spare you my handwringing thought processes. Some things that I personally would like to see: - do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP - ComDev

[DISCUSS] Solicitation for IPMC Chair nomination

2015-01-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! after making sure that there's still an Incubator to be managed for the next 6-12 months, I'd like to open up a discussion thread on soliciting nominations for the next IPMC Chair. Feel free to self-nominate or nominate folks who you know. Provide a summary of your 'program' or not. At this

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Purtell
Yes, formal votes for all decisions has been my *universal* experience on all projects I have participated in at Apache. It's like there are two (or more) different foundations, culturally. Thanks for the consideration. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Branko Čibej br...@apache.org wrote: On

Re: Podling Name Searches

2015-01-26 Thread Rob Vesse
One option would be to get the company involved to donate the trademark, if you check with trademarks@a.o then I am pretty sure that has happened in the past and they can likely guide you on procedures for this Your wording implies that perhaps this isn't an option in this particular podlings

[VOTE] Release Apache NiFI 0.0.1-incubating

2015-01-26 Thread Joe Witt
Hello The Apache NiFi (incubating) team is pleased to be calling this vote for the source release of Apache NiFi 0.0.1-incubating. With six binding (in the ppmc sense) +1 votes and no dissenting votes the PPMC has approved the vote for the release in this thread: http://s.apache.org/nifi-rc3

Re: [QUESTION] Importing a project from GitHub

2015-01-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
I think your assumption is fairly reasonable. The iithmus test would be; What if any contributions outside the sign-off ones, turn out to be not clean? Is it reasonable to remove such patch and do a rewrite of that section? If the answer is yes, we can either re-write or remove that without too