Re: Post mortem request for the handling of the Corinthia podling (was Re: FYI, I have subscribed to this list and to your private list)

2016-01-18 Thread Rob Vesse
Just wanted to reply to one specific point: On 15/01/2016 14:55, "Peter Kelly" wrote: >I felt were unreasonable - the inability to accept pull requests from >anyone without first asking them to sign a CLA Who in particular told you this? I occasionally see communities

Re: [VOTE] Accept Milagro into the Incubator

2015-12-15 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Good luck Rob On 15/12/2015 08:56, "Nick Kew" wrote: >I should like to call a vote to accept Milagro into >the Incubator. The full proposal is available at >https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MilagroProposal >as well as below. > >Note that the project was first

Re: Websites at podling.apache.org

2015-12-01 Thread Rob Vesse
Niall Thanks for digging up the reference I knew INFRA had made the change for a reason but couldn't remember the reasoning Rob On 01/12/2015 16:18, "Niall Pemberton" wrote: >On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Marvin Humphrey >wrote: > >>

Re: Websites at podling.apache.org

2015-12-01 Thread Rob Vesse
I seem to remember that INFRA used to do redirects but decided to stop doing them because it made the transition to TLP easier for podlings post graduation because their "final" URL was active from as soon as they start (assuming they don't name change during incubation) Pretty much any of the

Re: [VOTE] Accept Kudu into the Apache Incubator

2015-11-25 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Rob On 24/11/2015 19:32, "Todd Lipcon" wrote: >Hi all, > >Discussion on the [DISCUSS] thread seems to have wound down, so I'd like >to >call a VOTE on acceptance of Kudu into the ASF Incubator. The proposal is >pasted below and also

Re: [VOTE] Accept S2Graph into Apache Incubation

2015-11-24 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Good luck Rob On 24/11/2015 00:53, "Hyunsik Choi" wrote: >Hello folks, > >Thanks for all the feedback on the S2Graph Proposal. > >I would like to call for a [VOTE] on S2Graph joining the ASF as an >incubation project. > >The vote is open for at least 72 hours:

Re: RTC vs CTR (was: Concerning Sentry...)

2015-11-17 Thread Rob Vesse
On 17/11/2015 08:20, "Greg Stein" wrote: >On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz >> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Ted Dunning >> wrote: >> > ...RTC can be framed as "I don't trust you to do things

Re: RTC vs CTR (was: Concerning Sentry...)

2015-11-17 Thread Rob Vesse
On 17/11/2015 16:50, "Steve Loughran" wrote: >If someone were to have some metrics of projects, the state of >patches/pull requests would be a key issue. https://github.com/rvesse/gh-pr-stats Given a GitHub project generates statistics about the state of the Pull

Re: IP clearance for properly licensed code

2015-11-09 Thread Rob Vesse
You are quite right Apache projects can incorporate code under suitable licenses provided that they properly attribute it in their NOTICE and LICENSE files. Exact requirements will depend on the license under which the external source code is incorporated. For a simple case like this it would

Re: CommonsRDF petering out

2015-11-03 Thread Rob Vesse
On 03/11/2015 01:08, "Ted Dunning" wrote: >Looking at the email archives just now, it looks to me like commons RDF is >finding it difficult to build a community and maintain any serious >momentum. Seeing only a few emails or commits for months on end raises >red >flags to

Re: Should Apache VOTEs be in a first-come, first-serve queue?

2015-09-15 Thread Rob Vesse
Various comments inline: On 15/09/2015 03:41, "Marko Rodriguez" wrote: >Hi, > >> Thanks for making a clear statement because it lets me focus on the >> question that may be central to this discussion: can you tell us why >> did you guys decided to join ASF in the first

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-14 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 On 14/09/2015 16:17, "Adam Fuchs" wrote: >Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to >call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project. > >The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:

Re: [DISCUSS] Rya Incubator Proposal

2015-09-07 Thread Rob Vesse
Interesting proposal As someone already involved with other open source RDF projects both inside and outside Apache it would be nice to add to the Relationships with Other Apache Products a bit about what (if anything) you expect the relationship to other RDF related Apache projects (Jena,

Re: [DISCUSS] Apex Incubation Proposal

2015-08-12 Thread Rob Vesse
Not really an issue JIRA allows a lot of flexibility in the configuration of Versions (I.e. the version strings are free text) so you could easily have Apex x.y.z and Malhar x.y.z as separate versions under a single JIRA key. It just needs the community managing the JIRA to be careful about

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Ignite from the Incubator

2015-07-30 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Rob On 28/07/2015 21:03, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote: Following discussions [1],[2] about its current status, the Ignite community has voted [3] to graduate from the Incubator. The vote passed [4] with 14 (non-binding) +1s: 1. Yakov Zhdanov (PPMC) 2.

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Brooklyn 0.7.0-incubating [rc1]

2015-07-22 Thread Rob Vesse
No such requirement actually exists Jena graduated in April 2012 and because of our backwards compatibility requirements the package names for existing code have until very recently remained the same (though new code developed at Apache has used org.apache.jena where possible) Now we are finally

Re: [DISCUSS] Communicating intent around non-release, downstream integration binary artifacts

2015-06-25 Thread Rob Vesse
On 24/06/2015 18:02, Markus Weimer mar...@weimo.de wrote: Personally I think the policy should be clarified such that nightly builds MUST only live on ASF infrastructure (whether that be the Nexus SNAPSHOTs repo, committer web space etc). As soon as you start putting them on external

Re: [DISCUSS] Communicating intent around non-release, downstream integration binary artifacts

2015-06-24 Thread Rob Vesse
On 24/06/2015 04:12, Justin Erenkrantz justin.erenkra...@gmail.com on behalf of jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: There is

Re: Serveral legal question about donating project to Apache?

2015-06-18 Thread Rob Vesse
Answers inline, please be aware IANAL so these answers are no substitute for getting advice from a real lawyer On 17/06/2015 17:12, 封仲淹(纪君祥) zhongyan.f...@alibaba-inc.com wrote: Hi May I ask several question about donating projects to Apache? Any help are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Can we teach brand management/vendor neutrality better?

2015-05-26 Thread Rob Vesse
All Over the past few months there have been several occasions where I've given podlings/recently graduated PMCs a gentle nudge about brand enforcement and vendor neutrality issues. In all cases the projects have responded positively and appropriately to these nudges and taken the necessary

Re: Question about Apache's voting procedures

2015-05-13 Thread Rob Vesse
Answers inline: On 13/05/2015 14:24, Stefan Reich stefan.reich.maker.of@googlemail.com wrote: Hi again! I was silent because I am thinking... :) (Also I am making releases of my software.) I am trying to understand Apache. Take a look at community.apache.org - there is a lot of good

Re: Helping Neo4j Release an Apache2 API for Apache Projects

2015-04-30 Thread Rob Vesse
On 30/04/2015 00:24, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: But may I suggest the other way around?? Can't Neo4j have a Tinkerpop module at their end, which Tinkerpop advertise to be available for those that can live with the GPL/AGPL limitations? That would make this a non-issue, and IIUIC

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Rob On 19/04/2015 22:46, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Following the discussion earlier in the thread: http://s.apache.org/Oxt I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode as a new incubator project. The proposal is available at:

Re: [VOTE] Accept Groovy into the Apache Incubator

2015-03-19 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Rob On 19/03/2015 08:20, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: +1 non-binding 2015-03-19 9:07 GMT+01:00 Romain Manni-Bucau rmannibu...@gmail.com: +1 Le 19 mars 2015 09:07, Ashish paliwalash...@gmail.com a écrit : +1 non-binding On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:25 PM,

Re: [VOTE] Accept CommonsRDF into the Apache Incubator

2015-03-02 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 Rob On 27/02/2015 19:19, Lewis John Mcgibbney lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi general@, Over the last while a number of individuals have been putting together a proposal and gathering interest in proposing Commons RDF for acceptance into the Apache Incubator. Having worked our way

Re: [VOTE] Accept Myriad into the Apache Incubator

2015-02-23 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding) Rob On 22/02/2015 05:34, Adam Bordelon a...@mesosphere.io wrote: Hello friends, After receiving a positive response on the discussion thread, and even a new Mentor (Luciano), I would like to call a VOTE to accept Myriad into the Apache Incubator. I will end the vote after 7 days.

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

2015-02-11 Thread Rob Vesse
, unfortunately it's not a valid nomination. I'd nudge newly elected IPMC member Rob Vesse, but maybe the roster is already Jena-heavy? Marvin Humphrey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands

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: CCLA's and SGA's

2015-02-09 Thread Rob Vesse
There is a case where an CCLA can cover for an SGA If a company donates code to an existing project where the developers of the incoming contributions already have ICLAs and the company has signed CCLA for those contributors that were already in effect at the time the contributions were

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

When is an ICLA needed?

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Vesse
All I keep an eye on the Lucene.Net TLP since I use it in some of my other projects and after a long hiatus the activity in that community has picked up considerably. However there is one thing that has caught my eye that they've been doing recently which I'm not sure is strictly necessary. I

Re: Incubating with Apache Commons as champion?

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Vesse
Stian If a community made predominantly of existing Apache committers (or containing a strong core of) already exists and this would be a small self contained module as part of Apache Commons then why does the Incubator need be involved at all? Why can this not just be submitted directly to

Re: Incubating with Apache Commons as champion?

2015-01-20 Thread Rob Vesse
issues, licenses and build/release procedures. On 20 January 2015 at 15:08, Rob Vesse rve...@dotnetrdf.org wrote: Stian If a community made predominantly of existing Apache committers (or containing a strong core of) already exists and this would be a small self contained module as part

Re: [Proposal] TinkerPop: A Graph Computing Framework

2014-12-18 Thread Rob Vesse
To clarify on Daniel's comments this does not mean that pull requests cannot be merged You can have Infra set up ASF integration with GitHub such that pull requests trigger emails to your projects dev list, those emails contain instructions on how to pull and merge the request into your local ASF

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Argus Proposal

2014-07-15 Thread Rob Vesse
Interesting proposal, it seems like the core technology being described has a lot in common with Apache Shiro Has collaboration with that community been considered whether just in terms of reusing existing Shiro components wherever possible or something deeper e.g. inviting Shiro developers to

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Vesse
On 09/07/2014 09:12, Chris Douglas cdoug...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Again, why would code lose users? Remember we're talking about a situation of no releases here. Presumably those users who are comfortable building from the

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] IP Clearance for Apache Jena Hadoop RDF Tools donation from Cray

2014-05-27 Thread Rob Vesse
With no objections the vote passes by lazy consensus Thanks, Rob On 22/05/2014 12:12, Rob Vesse rve...@dotnetrdf.org wrote: Cray is proposing to donate a set of libraries called Hadoop RDF Tools to the Apache Jena project - the details of the code base can be viewed at https

[VOTE] IP Clearance for Apache Jena Hadoop RDF Tools donation from Cray

2014-05-22 Thread Rob Vesse
Cray is proposing to donate a set of libraries called Hadoop RDF Tools to the Apache Jena project - the details of the code base can be viewed at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-666 and the current state of the code for donation can be viewed at

Is a Software Grant Agreement always needed for IP Clearance?

2014-04-05 Thread Rob Vesse
sufficient? Thanks, Rob Vesse

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a Black Duck POC

2014-03-31 Thread Rob Vesse
Roman Black Duck software certainly have a useful platform though it would be useful to know what they are considering using for the POC. Personally I¹ve used their Protex software and I can state from experience that it is quite a time consuming and thankless process to work through IP

Re: Github pull request hooks

2014-02-10 Thread Rob Vesse
Sergio You have to manually edit a file in the private committers area of the Apache SVN repo. The specific file you need to edit and how to edit it was detailed in an email from Noah Slater that went out on the committers@a.o list on 20th January. It's a private list so I am avoiding mentioning

Re: Instead of a Bill how about a Booklet? (was Re: [DISCUSS] PodlingBillOfRights)

2013-06-20 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 Having also come to Apache by joining a now graduated podling (Apache Jena) I like the idea of a What to expect document and agree with pretty much everything that you lay out here. I think people outside of Apache often don't appreciate how a volunteer organization operates and many of your

Incubator Write Access

2013-06-20 Thread Rob Vesse
Could someone please grant me write access to the Incubator wiki My username is RobVesse Thanks, Rob

Re: Instead of a Bill how about a Booklet? (was Re: [DISCUSS] PodlingBillOfRights)

2013-06-20 Thread Rob Vesse
learn. If, for whatever reason, they are unable or unwilling to, you can ask on the incubator general list. If the optic is too sensitive to discuss in public (eg a potential committer) you may contact the incubator ombudsman at x...@apache.org. Upayavira On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 05:40 PM, Rob

Re: [PROPOSAL] OData Proposal for Incubator

2013-06-17 Thread Rob Vesse
Stephan What overlap (if any) do you see with the existing Marmotta podling? They are building out an implementation of the Linked Data Platform which is a ongoing W3C standardization effort (http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Main_Page) and can be thought of as a more RDF/Semantic Web centric