Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/31/2012 3:28 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Having said that, I should note that the context of Incubator is significantly different than a normal PMC. If incubator wants to structure itself more like a board and less like a project, I really don't have much to say against that. Note that

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/31/2012 5:05 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: In replacement, I propose the following concrete actions: 1. Move the Incubator process/policy/documentation, etc., to ComDev - I agree with gstein on this. I think it could be maintained by the ASF community folks there, and updated

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/30/2012 6:06 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: It is clear that with all the turmoil of late and people lightly tossing around -1's that the notion of having veto authority over personnel matters makes little sense on this PMC. Therefore I propose we adopt the policy that personnel votes are by

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/30/2012 7:41 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: Lemme get this straight: a person who makes a class-action veto against a whole swath of people should have those votes upheld to protect that person from the tyranny of the majority? No. Joe, take a break. Then come back, and reread both threads,

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/30/2012 7:44 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jan 30, 2012, at 5:34 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 1/30/2012 6:06 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: It is clear that with all the turmoil of late and people lightly tossing around -1's that the notion

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/30/2012 7:51 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: - Original Message - From: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:47 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes On 1/30/2012 7:44 PM, Dave Fisher

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-01-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/29/2012 12:11 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I intend to nominate Noel J. Bergman but would like to see the community come to a consensus about the rotation of the chair. (Dibs on Noel) :) If this goes to a nominations and a ballot, isn't that implicit that we've agreed to rotate the

Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-26 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/26/2012 5:57 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: Now you have me worried. This podling has 4 mentors listed. Only 1 voted on the release. You indicated you were too busy to look at it and the other two didn't participate at all. Although the tally below is obviously incorrect and needed to be

Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/25/2012 11:49 PM, Eric Yang wrote: The voting period is now closed. Thanks to everyone who took the time to review the release. Result Summary for this List: +1 [1] 0[1] -1[0] With the one IPMC member vote from mentors on the dev list and two +1 from

Re: [VOTE] Clarify the role of the Champion as an incubation coordinator

2012-01-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/12/2012 9:02 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Once a podling is created, and until it graduates, its Champion must: 1. Coordinate the creation and timely delivery of the podling's board reports. 2. Keep an eye on the mentors' activity and take action (ask for new mentors, talk to the

Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/15/2012 1:42 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: You know, you have 4 mentors all of whom are supposed to be IPMC members. Have they voted? Nope, traveling, and now back in project hell at one of my own homes. I did review the Chukwa monthly report and comment on several apparent issues on dev@. I

Re: [VOTE] Clarify the role of the Champion as an incubation coordinator

2012-01-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/17/2012 4:03 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: Yes, but this may wind up raising the bar for the Champion position so high that we wind up with fewer people offering to fulfill it. In those cases, perhaps there is nobody actually qualified and willing to Champion the project at all? In which case

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/11/2012 6:02 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: Celix A plan is being discussed on the list, but did not make it into

Re: Improviing quarterly reports

2012-01-11 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/11/2012 11:54 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 00:33, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Joe Schaefer wrote: Now lets look at the remainder- several projects with no report whatsoever This has been an issue. Perhaps we need to put some teeth in the requirement, such as closing

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/10/2012 6:40 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jan 9, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Greg Stein wrote: There is no fork in the current plan, so this discussion is moot anyways. I believe the point was to settle the issue so that we don't have to deal with this situation again. Roy That was the

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/10/2012 2:20 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: I'm actually not seeing much in the way of contradiction in discussion of the policy. The letter seems to be: Apache projects don't import and incorporate code without the owners' consent. License to use is not synonymous with consent to

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/10/2012 4:04 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Greg both acquiesced in picking another plan while at the same time he did not retreat from the position that there is no set Foundation policy here. Roy takes a strong and continuing line that there is one. So I personally wish that the board

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/10/2012 3:50 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: The IPMC is perfectly capable (in its own sometimes messy way) to deal with this issue. In fact the board has explicitly delegated the responsibility of acceptance and oversight of new products submitted or proposed to become part of the Foundation

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-09 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/9/2012 7:04 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: I don't think Wookie should graduate, but it certainly shouldn't be kicked out (and I don't think it will be). However, as I not above incubation may be holding it back. The question for me is, can we do more for projects that are in this position?

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-09 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/9/2012 11:40 AM, Upayavira wrote: Regarding attrition of mentors, it was discussed having mentors 'sign' the board report for their podling. Could that be encouraged, and used as a sign of minimum 'activity' for a mentor? How about simply sign off on podling-dev@? Even if it is Thanks

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-09 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/9/2012 12:27 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: Lame. I would actually like to see mentors WRITING the reports at least for the first 6 months to a year, then going to sign-off on the wiki. My point was, all mentors need to reply to the draft. -One- of them, or a leader in the community would

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 2:02 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Jan 3, 2012 2:30 AM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Jan 2, 2012 10:51 PM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Greg, I do not care one bit how much commit activity happens at

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:48 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... Folks, can we please find a better forum for religious This is the ASF debates to occur? And keep discussions non-toxic here on general@incubator?... I

Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 11:14 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Jan 3, 2012 11:48 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... A PMC I am on had this exact conversation with board members several months ago regarding a code base the project is dependent on that is housed outside the ASF which we were

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 11:43 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: I don't understand the purpose of a vote here. Roy has stated rather firmly that [2] is settled foundation policy. Pointer to where that policy was established, or it didn't happen. It might have been a consensus relative to some specific incident

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 11:43 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Would some please clarify is this is *truly* a hostile fork? Wrong thread, see Subject: above. Thx. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/3/2012 12:51 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Kalle Korhonen kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: So the generic policy is there is no generic policy, and instead there is appropriate application of

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/21/2011 1:35 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 20 December 2011 22:35, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 12/20/2011 4:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/21/2011 3:00 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: As long as there's no confusion as to which Flex is which, and as long as there's no favoritism in how people are allowed to use the Flex name, I think this might work. Whoa... slow down. You are not correct Bertrand. As long as there is no

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/21/2011 4:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: I totally agree that the use of the Apache Flex trademark needs to be clearly defined - once the podling starts. Or rather, before it is allowed to graduate. That is but one of the many steps during graduation, determine the provenience of

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/20/2011 4:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part of their name - Apache Flex will have to create guidelines for that. Whilst I don't see any problem with that in principle

Re: Can (Podling) Projects collect funds through certification programs?

2011-12-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/13/2011 5:20 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 13 December 2011 11:15, seba.wag...@gmail.com seba.wag...@gmail.com wrote: My questions is not about who collects the money, we can forward requests to http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html But can we list those companies /

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 9:52 AM, sebb wrote: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html was just recently revised by Roy Fielding (ASF Director and founding officer) based on some nonsense back-channel complaints, and might be worth integrating into incubator docs. Would it not be better to integrate the

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
No committee can take action without a majority on that committee approving the action. The VP might take action by fiat (they are given that authority) - I can't imagine that would ever happen except in consultation with legal-private@ for a legal issue raised on private@ that impeded that

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 10:26 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, sebbseb...@gmail.com wrote: This specifically says that a majority is NOT required. This does seem odd. This does mean that a release (for example due to a security issue) cannot be held back by any entity or

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 11:30 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 November 2011 16:59, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: I agree that a non-minimal NOTICE might not warrant rejecting a podling release, but

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 2:14 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I've been wondering whether F2F meetups (bootcamps) for the incubator might be a way forward Every retreat I've attended - which translates to those in Wicklow - has included some level of incubator orientation, and some participation by a

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen a point to 2) to running serial votes. You need only 3

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:27 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:50 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: So, you are saying option 2 is a reasonable choice, given that only the NOTICE/LICENSE files have changed one line here and there ? Yes, if you let the 72 hour vote run through with a clear message that it will be rerolled with a short vote. If

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-28 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/27/2011 3:34 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: I think I've been leading a sheltered existence. In the TLPs of which I play a part, over the 5 years or so that I've been around, I've never seen a release proceed past a -1. Every single time, a -1 has led to recutting the release. That is

[policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-28 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/28/2011 1:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: That is because, every single time, the RM agreed that the release was worth re-cutting. We have been assuming that it is the rule of Apache to cut another RC even if it gets a single -1 vote. And that isn't correct, as Joe was kind enough to point

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-28 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/28/2011 3:19 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On Nov 28, 2011, at 11:21 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: No - nobody can veto a release. But you also can't slip in a vetoed patch and say this is a release vote, its not subject to veto. Well, as I had hinted, the RM can withdraw a vote, which

Re: should podlings have informal chairs?

2011-11-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/19/2011 1:45 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Should we appoint one of the mentors at the start to be the chair of the PPMC, in the same way as a full project? I would see them as responsible for ensuring the podling is reporting, and that all of the mentors are engaged and signing off the

Re: Fw: [VOTE] Graduate ACE from the Apache Incubator

2011-11-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/21/2011 11:11 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Speaking wearing a hat: There is no requirement for monolithic releases. The project can choose whatever units it likes to release, so long as each one of them is fully buildable from the materials voted on in the release. If they want to hold one

Re: should podlings have informal chairs?

2011-11-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/21/2011 5:13 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Do you see any validity in my theory that the ipmc is so large and diffuse as to be directionless? Of course. It applies to the ASF as a whole. But Incubator submissions keep coming, as (generally part of one of) 1) dev lib functionality, 2)

Re: Adobe revises Flex's future ... at the Apache Software Foundation - The H Open Source: News and Features

2011-11-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/16/2011 9:26 PM, Greg Stein wrote: NOTE: and yes, Adobe is doing this right: they say they are crafting *proposals*. Still chuckling that h-online somehow[1] avoided making any stupid errors in their article w.r.t. either Adobe or Apache or the incubation process ;-P [1] Thanks

Re: incubator is a single group

2011-11-11 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/11/2011 1:58 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: I *suggest* that incubator change the procedure such that all committers (or at least all committers within a single LDAP group) have access to all incubator areas and that new people simply be requested to only commit within areas for which they

Re: Incubation end states (was Re: [DISCUSS] Graduating empire?)

2011-10-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 10/30/2011 8:05 PM, David Crossley wrote: Benson Margulies wrote: Daniel Shahaf wrote: Thinking out load: perhaps just promote the project into a TLP, while having a few IPMC members volunteer to become PMC members of the new TLP and provide oversight? Yup. No muss, no fuss, no new

Re: Retire Olio?

2011-08-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 8/17/2011 12:47 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 8/17/2011 12:37 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: The copyright item isn't signed off at https://incubator.apache.org/projects/olio.html. So would need to delete the code

Re: Retire Olio?

2011-08-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 8/17/2011 12:37 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: The copyright item isn't signed off at https://incubator.apache.org/projects/olio.html. So would need to delete the code (assuming a successful retirement vote). Where are the mentors? Wondering how conflicted-providence IP would hit svn in the

Re: launch trajectories

2011-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/5/2011 7:36 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Anyhow, what do other think? Should mentors be pushing early and often on this subject, or is it reasonable wait for, oh, 18 months and a few releases before getting pushy? 18 months and 'a few releases', with no obstacle but attracting more

Re: launch trajectories

2011-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/5/2011 7:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: I wasn't clear on the timing. They launched in Nov 2010 and have made one release. It will be 18 months in June of 2012. the question I was trying to explore was, 'how essential is it to have shown that they can attract and integrate new people

Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 4:04 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: From: William A. Rowe Jr. [mailto:wr...@rowe-clan.net] We also made it clear the *author* should also commit their own code, and all authors should become committers. Each term (semester) Bluesky will get a new crop of students (committers

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 7:58 PM, Chen Liu wrote: We're preparing for the 4th version release. We need the whole July to do this work,thanks for your patience. Ok, stop. I think you are all conflating releases with what is required to continue here at the ASF. releases have not been the main issue. The

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 8:10 PM, Chen Liu wrote: We've already known our failure in ASF. We would not find any excuses for this bed situation. But we just hope one more month to release the 4th version work. We've been advancing Bluesky project and now the 4th version is an integtared system including

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/28/2011 12:49 AM, berndf wrote: Hi everyone, this is a vote to retire the Bluesky podling. 3.5 years into incubation, the podling has not made progress in terms of becoming an Apache project. Dev is still done behind closed doors, and developers are changing frequently without

Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!

2011-07-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 10:19 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the email trail recently, I'm in favor of completing the vote. I think that there is sufficient evidence that this project has 'failed to launch' as an Apache

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Bill Stoddard +1 struberg Mark Struberg -1 twilliamsTim Williams +1 upayaviraUpayavira +1 wroweWilliam A. Rowe Jr. +1 zwoopLeif Hedstrom Non-binding: +1 aaf Alexei Fedotov +0 aku Andreas Kuckartz +1 asavory Andrew Savory +1 bayard Henri

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:26 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members. Quorum is 3 binding +1 yes votes.

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:31 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phillip Rhodes Mondo rad. But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after some of the names in the voter list? I meant to either explain that or remove it. Oh well. :-) That was my own personal

Re: [DISCUSSION] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/12/2011 4:03 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Not that much; * Same players. * Same importance. Really? I'm pretty certain there is 0.05% overlap between the Office Suite and Java Runtime mechanics of either Sun or IBM. They probably never even shared so much as a VP, although I could be

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 11:02 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation +1 [binding] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [DISCUSSION] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 11:45 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: For us outsiders, can you explain who is allowed to vote and in what way, please? Everyone is welcome to vote. Binding votes include all Incubator Project Management Committee members. Non-binding votes can and do influence the opinions of committee

Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 12:04 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: (Officially I'm on the incubator PMC I believe but I have not been active .. so lets chalk this up for non-binding.) Then you just cast a binding vote. Feel free to change it, or withdraw it, but the committee roster determines which binds.

Re: Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 2:04 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Please. Being on a PMC can't *reduce* one's rights. So, if I were on the PMC and I said +1 (intentionally non-binding), I would expect it not to be counted as binding. Then state I would vote +1 but haven't spent sufficient time reviewing this,

Re: Upstream/Downstream (was OpenOffice LibreOffice)

2011-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/8/2011 10:06 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 08/06/2011 16:33, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: 1. find a proper coherence and relevance between Apache OOo LibreOffice on a technological level and on a distribution level 2. find a proper coherence with IBM's business requirements (Symphony). I

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/8/2011 11:12 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Is that a copyleft swallow or an ALv2 swallow? No definitive indicator for the latter, but if it consumes parts of the other, then it must be the former ... I believe the

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 10:23 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: One question about the comment above though: Are you advocating that Apache OOo stick to source-only releases, and avoid building and delivering binaries altogether? Or is your idea that Apache OOo would deliver builds, but that they be Vanilla

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 11:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Just to clarify, only source code is released by the ASF. Yes, there may I don't believe this is true - we have to release the source, but anything we distribute

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 3:17 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote on 06/07/2011 03:43:56 PM: Apache don't think that money is evil, but we also believe that seeing our code in wide use is more important than money. OpenOffice.org is important to the Developing World,

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 12:47 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ASF members wish to devote considerable time and energy to this project, so exactly who the hell are you to decide what they should and shouldn't devote that time and energy to? I am just a volunteer

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the original project, Apache httpd, was commercially exploited by vendors *even prior

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 4:55 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: that being said - can OOo really be treated like each other podling? I start to feel it might not be the case. Can we change the rules while the game? Yes, we can. I would be very dissappointed if we would obey blindly to our own rules just

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
In general, I'm avoiding the messages which are entirely based on the one true license... but I think there is one interesting point to be raised here... On 6/5/2011 3:30 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: Why open source advocates at IBM would stand up for the right of software to be made proprietary

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 10:43 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the traffic on this list has settled down a lot in the last 24 hours and is now focusing in on topics more relevant to this list. But maybe that is just because it was Saturday :-)

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 5:30 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote on 06/05/2011 02:21:01 PM: This proposal raises lots of questions, but the requirements for entering the incubator are not high and so

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 5:45 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote (05-06-11 23:25) So, it does not logically follow that if a proposal at Apache is rejected that we go to TDF/LO. After all, why would you ? Purely argumentative posts aren't appropriate on this forum. Take it elsewhere.

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 6:19 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 6:04 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: We are a type-O org. Anyone can take our blood and mix it with their own. That universal donor condition places lots of restrictions on our projects, but somehow they manage to

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 8:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: With the exception of pure-BSD purists (who reject the patent clauses) AL can be mixed with any code to come out with the more restrictive of the licenses. AL + BSD == AL AL + MPL == MPL AL + GPL == GPL The following are not possible

/ignore troll [was: OpenOffice LibreOffice]

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 3:56 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: others, Free/Libre software. Nobody is suggesting that any AL work is ever Free/Libre. There is a multiplicity of Open Source thought, and we won't go into detail

Re: [OO.o] updated mailing lists in proposal

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 7:13 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated the proposal to provide more detail on the requested mailing lists. Figured it would be good to discuss here. This is what I entered into the wiki: The

Re: /ignore troll [was: OpenOffice LibreOffice]

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 8:26 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:12 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: We are now 50 posts on this list into an individual who is not a contributor to TDF/LO, and is here seeking publicity for his writing. Let's remember please to not feed

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 9:33 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: I still have no idea what you are talking about, not least since in this place we are all individuals. But I would be quite interested to understand why you have been trying so hard to stamp out all collaboration with the LibreOffice part of the OOo

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 11:43 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: Agreed. I wish I had a clearer idea of what constitutes a good reason to reject an incubator proposal on principle, though - even just a good enough reason to reject this one. As long as there is some promise of building a community and IP / grant

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/4/2011 7:37 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: It is not relevant how ASF would answer these questions. You see, I think it is, and apparently other mentors do as well... I'm open to to possibility that a 6-month old open source association with a single project might have more

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/4/2011 1:17 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Our emails may have crossed in the ether. My suggestion is that I take ownership of this question. I will state that I do not plan to proceed via this questionnaire. I missed the *what* you were taking ownership of :) Coolio, and thanks.

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 10:20 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: I on purpose leave out the discussion about (re-)licensing here, as others can comment much better about the impact of the various licenses, and how they play together, and what ASF could to with the software grant they received, may it be

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 12:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 3 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Ian Lynch wrote: Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to any other foundation. So we are where we are. We may be where we are, but we collectively have the opportunity to collaborate once

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I'm certainly not support OOo from 2 committers and 1 mentor. It would be good to see the rest of that list hashed out and know that those already on board are good with the individuals signed up (including IBM

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 1:43 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I'm certainly not support OOo from 2 committers and 1 mentor. You need to flush your cache... ~20 committers

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 7:09 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: If someone on the list from TDF is authorized to answer this (or can get such authorization), I'd appreciate an official stance on the following questions. This would help us understand what room there is for negotiation and what is not

Re: Recuse as mentor?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 9:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Seems that some people are not happy with my outreach to the communties, or whatever... There are plenty of suggestions and posts on things that I have done wrong, or did not do, or did not due to someone's satisfaction. If people want, I will

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
OpenOffice.org will be contributed to Apache Software Foundation by Oracle Corporation in compliance with ASF licensing and governance. Luke, could you offer some insight into affixing the Apache License v2.0 to this code base? Only ALv2 code is released by the foundation. LGPL/MPL cannot

Re: [italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 8:41 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: My questions then are absolutely pragmatic and relate—hence the to post—to issues not so far discussed: * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? * We at OOo receive lots of requests to use it for mostly good purposes. We grant these,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 10:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Other Works * You can use the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5). We only accept work under this license that is non

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:07 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:52, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: ... What am I missing here? According to the Incubation Policy [1]: A Sponsor SHALL be either: * the Board of the Apache Software Foundation; * a Top Level Project (TLP) within the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:45 AM, Greg Stein wrote: We know the *precise* list of files that we have rights to. They are explicitly specified in the software grant recorded by the Secretary. For all other files not listed: we have no special rights. Those files would be under their original license,

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people do know about it, people

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