Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
For your convenience, here's the proposal text for CommonsRDF: = Apache Commons RDF incubation proposal = TableOfContents() == Status == Draft == Abstract == Commons RDF is a set of interfaces for the RDF 1.1 concepts that can be used to expose common RDF-1.1 concepts using common Java

Re: Re: [DISCUSS] [PROPOSAL] Singa for Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Ted Dunning
I didn't read the documentation carefully enough to quote details, but it appeared that the efficiency and asynchronous nature of the parameter server is considered to be a key factor in scalability and performance. The performance numbers that I read compared singa to H2O and showed a very

Re: -incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Since the only official release is the source release, perhaps that's the only place where we in fact need a policy? On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: I think formally the

Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
ATTENTION IPMC! If anybody is out there wants a low-stress Mentoring gig, this is it. And if you're an RDF neutral outsider, you'll be helping this project to achieve its goals, just by showing up. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: Right - I think it

Re: -incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: I think formally the requirement is just that there is incubating somewhere in the released downloadables, it doesn't have to be part of the version number Originally it was a matter of the user can't avoid notice

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Zest pTLP proposal

2015-02-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
[-board] Roman, I am also pleased to see your effort, and likewise comments/edits on page are not available to me, so I post here... I am wondering why there is anything about the committers at all? 1. All committers on the project are also subscribed to the private@ ML of a pTLP 2.

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-02-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Roman, Under the JIRA section, I made a mistake earlier; https://ops4j1.jira.com/browse/ZEST should be https://ops4j1.jira.com/browse/QI Niclas On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz

Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Sergio Fernández
I guess, if there is no single aspect to discuss, we can move forward with an official vote, right? On 05/02/15 08:49, Sergio Fernández wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to propose Commons RDF, a small library providing a common API for RDF 1.1. The current draft of the proposal is here:

Re: [DISCUSS] Is the Incubator a product? If so, why are there so few bugs?

2015-02-10 Thread jan i
On 9 February 2015 at 21:59, John D. Ament johndam...@apache.org wrote: I noticed that as well. I'm assuming it's in part because no one has access to the incubator JIRA. How come ? of course you need a jira account, but incubator jira does not seem to have specially closed permissions.

Re: Draft Report February 2015 - please review

2015-02-10 Thread Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Hi, I can reply about SAMOA. We want to create bylaws because the default voting process for code changes in Apache is too strict for us (3 +1 binding votes). Being a small community, we felt that we needed a lower bar to move faster. My understanding is that we need bylaws to specify that, but

Re: Draft Report February 2015 - please review

2015-02-10 Thread jan i
On 10 February 2015 at 11:44, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales g...@apache.org wrote: Hi, I can reply about SAMOA. We want to create bylaws because the default voting process for code changes in Apache is too strict for us (3 +1 binding votes). Being a small community, we felt that we needed

Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Peter Ansell
On 11 February 2015 at 07:31, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: The natural path to Apache Commons Sandbox has been studied, but we think that in this phase of the project, which focuses on the API design

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-02-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, I missed a few important points in this thread last week, with which I disagree: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...1) Draft a template resolution. Starting in the

Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: The natural path to Apache Commons Sandbox has been studied, but we think that in this phase of the project, which focuses on the API design and actively involves the developers of existing toolkits, it is better to

Re: -incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Since the only official release is the source release, perhaps that's the only place where we in fact need a policy? I would really encourage us to keep this for Maven. Especially for Maven where you may have no clue

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-02-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: Roman, Under the JIRA section, I made a mistake earlier; https://ops4j1.jira.com/browse/ZEST should be https://ops4j1.jira.com/browse/QI Fixed! As a side note: I really need to figure out how to make sure

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Zest pTLP proposal

2015-02-10 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: Also, great job on writing this up. I have a few amendments, which I will just put into email since I can’t do so on the wiki: Man, this is annoying -- let me see what I can do. I really don't think I can take

Re: -incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Since the only official release is the source release, perhaps that's the only place where we in fact need a policy? I would really

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Zest pTLP proposal

2015-02-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Chris Mattmann mattm...@apache.org wrote: Hi Roman, I can’t seem to comment on the COMDEV wiki page. Also, great job on writing this up. I have a few amendments, which I will just put into email since I can’t do so on the wiki: Man, this is annoying -- let me

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-02-10 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Who ever said the Incubator has the exclusive Right to be the only way to become part of the Apache Software Foundation? New approaches can be discussed anywhere. At the end of the day, it will be the Board who votes on a

Re: Draft Report February 2015 - please review

2015-02-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, When reviewing the podling (as a shepherd) I at first allso though it odd, however they have looked into what other projects are doing and are using RTC not CTR. The discussion (as I understand it) is about accepting non committer code not all code changes. This is the relevant thread [1]

Re: [DISCUSS] Commons RDF to join the Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
On 10 February 2015 at 20:31, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: I also think it would be OK for the project to decide it wants to become a TLP. Whether the project joins Commons or becomes its own TLP won't impact the number of people qualified to work on it. Some Apache TLPs are

Re: Draft Report February 2015 - please review

2015-02-10 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 to jan's comments Ideally you should not be carrying out votes for code changes unless you can't progress without it. In some Apache projects I've participated in I don't think we've ever held a formal vote on code changes. It's fairly common to informally use +1/0/-1 to expression opinions

RE: Re: [DISCUSS] [PROPOSAL] Singa for Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Edward J. Yoon
Just out of curious. My coworker is working on implementing DNN on Apache Hama (which supports general-purpose BSP computing and Pregel-like graph framework). If Hama is leveraging InfiniBand and GPUs in the future, what will be the major difference bt Hama-based DistBelief clone and Singa

Re: Re: [DISCUSS] [PROPOSAL] Singa for Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward J. Yoon edward.y...@samsung.com wrote: My coworker is working on implementing DNN on Apache Hama (which supports general-purpose BSP computing and Pregel-like graph framework). If Hama is leveraging InfiniBand and GPUs in the future, what will be the

-incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Julien Le Dem
Hi Incubator, I'd like some context about the requirement of adding -incubating in the file name of podling releases. http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html http://incubator.apache.org/guides/release-java.html#best-practice-maven It seems we require adding -incubating in the

Re: -incubator in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
Agree about the worry about breaking semantic versioning. OSGi-wise for example this is a bit tricky, where you have to do 0.5.3.incubating instead to ensure incubating is a qualifier rather than part of the 3. But if the project is publishing Maven artifacts, then I believe it's pretty clean if

RE: Re: [DISCUSS] [PROPOSAL] Singa for Apache Incubator

2015-02-10 Thread Edward J. Yoon
I think that, one of the big differences is that Singa is written in C++. Awesome, I'd be the first client. And anything from architectural viewpoint? -- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon -Original Message- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11,