Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 7:12 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: This is purely my own thoughts, and there's no doubt room for improvement although I have run it past a few wise friends before posting it. But I suggest that without this clear demarcation of new-project and business-as-usual-project it will be

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:33 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: That would be great. There is also another project (or set of projects) that IBM and Sun/Oracle have worked on over the past few years, called the :ODF Toolkit. For example, this component was just released today:

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 12:48 PM, Nick Burch wrote: This would possibly warrant a seperate discussion though, especially if the codebase were to be destined for POI rather than a new TLP. And note, this is a decision that can be made *during* incubation, with POI folks participating on the incubating

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 1:16 PM, dsh wrote: To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again now

Re: [VOTE] Accept Howl as an Incubator Project

2011-03-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/12/2011 4:21 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: I am concerned that none of the proposed mentors were Incubator PMC members at the time of the proposal. I believe Alan Gates is now joining the Incubator PMC, which is great.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Rave project

2011-02-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/25/2011 4:25 AM, Troy Howard wrote: My point was: Bill made a statement, which though rather neutral and ambiguous, seemed to indicate that he (or perhaps a silent mass of others) did not think the proposal was such a good idea, due to the risks associated with a significant amount of

Re: Voting waiting period

2011-02-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/15/2011 5:33 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:54 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 2/12/2011 10:57 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Phil Steitz wrote on Sat, Feb 05, 2011

Re: Voting waiting period

2011-02-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/12/2011 10:57 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Phil Steitz wrote on Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 22:32:24 -0500: On 2/5/11 4:16 PM, Scott O'Bryan wrote: Bertrand, I agree. The good thing about a vibrant community is

Re: Open64 Inquiry: Apache Incubator Project

2011-01-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/31/2011 11:22 AM, Aida Rivas wrote: Hello Our Open64.net steering committee is exploring the idea of submission as an Apache Incubator Project, and one of the concerns is the Apache 2.0 license status regarding whether or not it's compatible with GPL since Open64 is currently using GPL

Re: Mystery fax received

2010-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Which would appear to come from the UK, if that gives anyone a better clue. On 10/28/2010 10:15 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: Sorry for the noise. A bit more information: Caller-ID: 441962815000 On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: Hi, We received an empty two page fax

Re: Release guidelines for python and php libraries?

2010-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 10/7/2010 11:40 AM, Nick Burch wrote: Hi All Does anyone happen to know of some pre-existing release guidelines for python or php libraries, either in an apache TLP or a podling? For Chemistry we've got the docs sorted for maven-based releases of the java codeline, and now we're

Re: HISE community needs to grow

2010-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/25/2010 8:42 PM, Rafal Rusin wrote: This is good question. As I understand procedure for nominating committers for podlings, blind request to hise-private needs to be sent and then mentors decide during voting. Existing committers don't play role here. That's why we haven't started any

Re: HISE community needs to grow

2010-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/27/2010 2:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: But you're right that those votes have no formal value. I would disagree, if there were later discussion by the graduated project (now consisting mostly of former PPMC folks), as a PMC chair I'd look back at the decision by the committee

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/10/2010 11:25 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a

Re: [Result][Vote] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-07-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2010 11:19 AM, ant elder wrote: I've been suggesting it would be simpler for Chukwa to go directly to TLP but if thats not going to happen then you have my support to incubate if thats what they really want to do, and I agree a new vote might making things clearer. It seems a shame to

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/25/2010 3:55 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 21:21, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@apache.org wrote: Is anyone in agreement with ant? Otherwise we should just move ahead and can hold a separate vote on allowing tlp resource creation at this time. If the proposers want

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/25/2010 12:40 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: But the Incubator doesn't just say yes/no. We can refer this back to Hadoop proposing this as a TLP, and even offer the list of mentors as observers, or members of the initial PMC. The Hadoop PMC is wholly unqualified to manage Chukwa. It voted

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-24 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/23/2010 8:12 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:45, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO we should insist on using the incubator naming for the Chukwa website/svn/MLs because I think Chukwa should just go directly to a TLP and if they have to use the incubator

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-22 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/22/2010 2:42 AM, ant elder wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:09 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/21/2010 1:31 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: Chukwa has been around for a while now and from my (albeit limited

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/21/2010 1:31 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: Chukwa has been around for a while now and from my (albeit limited) impression, pretty successful. What's the rationale for going the Incubator route rather than putting up a Board TLP

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-06-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/17/2010 9:06 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote: It is possible to run an incubator.staging.apache.org, syncing off a branch, and the live site off

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-06-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/17/2010 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/17/2010 9:06 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote: It is possible to run

Re: [VOTE] Apache Traffic Server as a TLP

2010-04-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 4/9/2010 6:54 PM, Bryan Call wrote: Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html Please cast your vote: [X] +1 to recommend Traffic Server's graduation - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Will your project feature at ApacheCon North America 2010?

2010-03-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/15/2010 6:22 PM, Nóirín Shirley for the ApacheCon 2010 Planning Team wrote: If you'd like your project to be featured in the main conference tracks, please discuss it with your project community. A schedule is not needed at this time, but you have a coherent vision for a one day (6

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-02-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/4/2010 11:24 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: In that case, +0 from me. We gain the elimination of the p.a.o bit but lose the benefit of the delay, so it's basically a wash, as far as I'm concerned. After several years of watching incubator site commits, I don't see this is a serious problem.

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-02-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
+1 On 2/3/2010 1:57 AM, Gav... wrote: This system is not applied to most TLPs, though they can request it. And I'm betting that every single project that graduates will make that request rather than learn the old cumbersome way. ++1 :)

Re: Publishing api docs for Subversion

2009-12-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Doug Cutting wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: So I'm not too clear on what your objections are. * Do you object to publishing non-released documentation on the project Web pages? I object to posting these outside of a clearly-marked developer portion of the project's web site.

Re: How documentation != code, and how to do policy (was: Re: Publishing api docs for Subversion)

2009-12-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: So, any policy in the area is not really bound in the legal space, and more in the 'representation of ASF'-space. No, there is a legal distinction between work-product (the intermediate steps) and a publication. Posts like this might attempt to muddy the distinction, so

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: If you want to review *bits* rather than *release process*, then you can take a look at trunk/ or the nightlies that we'll soon produce. If you want release process *and* Apache-branding, then the svn community is not prepared to provide that, nor do I think it necessary

Re: svn website (was: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education)

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: We're not sure what we'd like to do about website migration right now. Discussion is still occurring in the community. The bottom line is that we are in sync in terms of what aught to move into ASF and have 'formal recognition' ASAP. E.g. a mailing list is trivial, svn is

Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: Sponsors * Champion: Greg Stein Cool * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel Rall Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads'). It puts certain committers above others, an inequitable situation. If the PPMC

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Subversion project would like to join the Apache Software Foundation to remove the overhead of having to run its own corporation. The Subversion project is already run quite like an Apache project, and already counts a number of ASF Members amongst its committers.

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings how to work here at Apache. I'm a little confused. I'm reading a really long rant here, but I expect if you look at what nearly all mentors do in their respective podlings, this is exactly what they

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and necessary for graduation - not the

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com Let me put it another way: if the IPMC accepts a proposal with one mentor, then I'm fine with that one mentor acting on behalf of the IPMC without the need to constantly go back to the IPMC for approval. -- justin For

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: Yup. And I'll note that that limbo you describe has been an issue with the Board for a long while now. That is why the Board instructed the IPMC to request all podlings to list two items in their reports: 1) when did you arrive? 2) what is left? Specifically to focus

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martijn Dashorst wrote: Would a waiver be possible for Diversity (large project dominated by 1 or 2 vendors)? For the minimum required binding votes (small communities of 2 committers)? Such things have been requested, and granted in the past, based on the demonstrated ability of the project

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Leo Simons wrote: Here's what I understand: 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must be made by PMCs 2) Apache rule: a release needs at least 3 binding +1s and more +1s than -1s 3) from #1 and #2 it follows that all incubator releases must be made by the incubator PMC If you see a way

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB and libintl support. Of the three, the only thing an Eclipse

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: As an SVN committer, I can say that this is not something that is of concern to me (and I dare say I probably speak for all or at least most of the other committers when I say that). Thanks for that reassurance... Finally, I will also add that we have had our SVN Corp

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:48, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Quite frankly, all svncorp releases could, with reasonable documentation [read: mailing list archives, CLA's and code grant] be licensed as ASF releases under the AL 2.0, irrespective

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of releases as it pleases. The three +1 rule was developed to show that the PMC is in charge of the release, and is therefore legally liable for it. The IPMC can do whatever it likes around releases, as long

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: Wait a minute. Are you implying that the project *should* release binaries? Wouldn't such a requirement apply to, say, APR, to keep this close to home? s/should/may/ Greg pointed out I make win32 binaries and these are not mandated, I do so only because I trusted that

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: I do not believe the project wants to be in the business of providing binaries and we have an existing ecosystem of people that are providing them successfully. As long as non-committer artifacts aren't hosted here, that is no trouble. If nobody on SVN wants to create

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: - Original Message From: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:08:40 AM Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) Greg wrote

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of Make a Release requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make a release before graduation. As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF. Packaging, licensing, signing, placement into the

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: I have no idea why the term Board even comes up in your response. What's that got to do with my problems with the IPMC attempting to impose make-work on the svn podling? Because when you post to a broad-list such as general@, you are communicating to all incubating podlings

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Click as an Apache TLP

2009-10-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bob Schellink wrote: I would like to start a vote to recommend the graduation of Apache Click as a Top Level Project to the Board. Please cast your vote: [X] +1 to recommend Click's graduation - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Lucene.Net as a subproject under Apache Lucene

2009-10-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
George Aroush wrote: [X] +1 Graduate Lucene.Net as a sub-project under Apache Lucene. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ted Leung wrote: On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:01 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I have a lot of problems with saying In the meantime, we have dozens of projects who are here to learn the *right* way to build code and communities when we can't even agree / document what that *right* way

Re: [VOTE] Mothball/Pause Lokahi

2009-08-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Noel J. Bergman wrote: +1 Sorry I had been away on vacation with very limited connectivity. +1 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Does an incubation proposal require a codebase?

2009-08-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Noah Slater wrote: I checked the incubation rules, but couldn't find any mention of this rule. Our hopes were that we could start from scratch as a podling, and grow the code along with the community. Is this going to be possible? It's not mentioned because there is no such rule. Draw up

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Thorsten Scherler wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 18:16 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten Scherlerthorsten.scherler@juntadeandalucia.es wrote: How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 coding committers but how many other

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten Scherlerthorsten.scherler@juntadeandalucia.es wrote: How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 coding committers but how many other committers? 5 committers and PPMC Members in total, not

Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Crossley wrote: I am very disappointed that no podlings took up your suggestion. I was too. It was answered by the status scoreboard, but that is not help to graduate, only a bunch of disassociated data. I don't disapprove of a status grid, but it doesn't replace active management. If

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jukka Zittingjukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Sling explicitly waited until there were active committers from three independent backgrounds until asking for graduation. At the end of the day it's the people who write the code that decide

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: That doesn't seem right either. I think members should still be able to access it read-only. Fair enough. I just don't think it should be readable by the public. But members? Why not just authenticated committers?

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: Would this be moved to the attic? Probably not. The Attic is the collection of all released Apache Projects. Podlings != Projects, and were never accepted as projects. Do we want to charge the Attic with such additional burdens of then completing all IP clearances that

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? How is incubator PMC to evaluate this question? Apparently the submitters are cool with it, or it would not be on their proposal :) Just

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? How is incubator PMC to evaluate this question? Apparently the submitters are cool with it, or it would not be on their proposal :) The one thing that might be concerning is that most people will use a query such as;

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Richard S. Hall wrote: Hello, I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix. The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor

Re: [Proposal][Vote] Traffic Server

2009-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: +1 (binding) on the singular change of dropping Mladen Turk and Nick Kew as Mentors since that makes it 5 mentors, which is problematic (3 seems to be the max). Otherwise -1 (binding) Guys... mentorship is not about technical excellence, it's about bringing together a

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery

2009-06-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Honestly, Niclas, but if you and possibly others that strict, then we should change the official policy. I do not doubt the reasons you give, but such a statement seems difficult to me, if the official policy clearly demands it, but insisting on more than the policy

Re: Apache JSecurity/Ki rename - please submit suggestions!

2009-05-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
sebb wrote: PANEKANA - apparently means security in Hawaiian. No hits in TESS. Google shows no hits relating to commercial enterprises. I like the alliteration... a pa che pan e kan a - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Apache JSecurity/Ki rename - please submit suggestions!

2009-05-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Maarten Bosteels wrote: Hi Les, Is there an entry in TESS that shows us the potential naming conflict ? It could help us understand which names are good candidates. I don't quite understand the problem (IANAL). My apologies if this has all been discussed before. As far as I understand,

Re: Apache JSecurity/Ki rename - please submit suggestions!

2009-05-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 21:53, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Apache Kleenex because the Kleenex registration refers to a paper product, not a software product. Gasp! Don't let the Kleenex folks hear that there product was not soft ware! And Bernd

Re: Incubation and the @attic.apache.org

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Perhaps a better solution is an incubator sandbox for code Or just a directory called dormant into which to do an svn move. +1 - Simple Solution. +1; create a category on the Incubating

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some

Incubation and the @attic.apache.org

2009-02-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At Wed's ASF Board meeting, the board took up the issue of whether the attic project's charter is appropriate for incubating code that has not yet graduated into a project. The conclusion was no; the attic is chartered to handle the actual projects of the foundation (including incubator

Re: [VOTE] Approve the 2.0.1 release of Apache Click - third try

2009-02-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bob Schellink wrote: Will Glass-Husain wrote: +1 Quick question, does the PMC votes from previous release attempts (the first and second try) count towards this cut? In other words does Andrus and Kevan's votes from the previous attempt count? Each package must be evaluated on it's own

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Torsten Curdt wrote: Isn't the champion expected to be the ubermentor anyway? Or to rephrase this: does the vote of the champion not count? ... or can one person be champion and mentor? Yes and should be called out as both. BTW: Just realized I am not members of the Incubator PMC. Wasn't

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ian Holsman wrote: I'll be a mentor. do we need 2 or 3? That would be nice, yes. 3 mentors == 3 binding votes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [VOTE] Accept ESME into the Apache Incubator

2008-11-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Darren Hague wrote: Hi Aaron, Are we ready for the next steps of accepting ESME into the Incubator? The Apache Incubator general mailing list seems to have been quiet since Saturday 21st November, so I'm not sure if there's a problem with the mailserver somewhere or if people are just

Re: [VOTE] Accept ESME into the Apache Incubator

2008-11-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: My only concern is that from the description, the project appears to be run in real time, with decisions made through collaborative decision-making on the mailing list, through daily scrum calls, via Twitter and using open discussion on ESME itself. Good points. If

Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2008-11-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Crossley wrote: The Clutch table assists with a status summary. It is also helpful when it comes to reviewing, as the links in each cell go directly to each podling's various resources. e.g. http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html#empire-db That's sweet - embarrassed I didn't know it

Re: [VOTE] Accept Stonehenge into the Incubator

2008-11-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Paul Fremantle wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just two concerns... Is it anticipated this will graduate into the WS TLP? If so, has WS voted to sponsor the project into incubation? We would like to leave this open during the initial

Re: [PROPOSAL] Stonehenge

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Paul Fremantle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The full proposal is here: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StonehengeProposal.. That says future contributions could depend on proprietary systems such as Microsoft .Net or commercial

Re: [PROPOSAL] Stonehenge

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: 4. running continuous integration on shore may require licenses. it's important that contributors understand this and don't just start diving in. it may be better to start off shore. As a US based Deleware 501(c)3 that wouldn't protect us. As far as continuous

Re: [VOTE] Abdera Graduation to TLP

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Garrett Rooney wrote: The discussion included determining the list of people to put on the final PMC list. The actual list of Abdera committers was larger, but many of them had not participated in the project in some time or at all, or had explicitly left the project. Since I didn't want

Re: [VOTE] Accept Stonehenge into the Incubator

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Just two concerns... The project already uses core libraries from the Apache WS project including Apache Axis2/Java, Rampart and Sandesha2. In addition, the PHP, Perl, and Python versions use the Apache Axis2/C libraries. We hope to develop versions that utilize at least the Apache CXF

Re: [VOTE] Abdera Graduation to TLP

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Garrett Rooney wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. I'm presuming there was not a dev@ vote yet by the Abdera community itself? If not, could you please call that vote ASAP in parallel with the general@ vote? Monday evening is not to late to put this on the board

Re: [VOTE] Abdera Graduation to TLP

2008-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Garrett Rooney wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. I'm presuming there was not a dev@ vote yet by the Abdera community itself? If not, could you please call that vote ASAP in parallel with the general@ vote? Monday evening is not to late

Re: [jira] Created: (INCUBATOR-97) Submission of CCLAs for initial committers

2008-10-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: Ook So, what you are saying is that we now asking the committers to become legally affluent? No, only to become aware of the fact that what they do is owned by their employer, or that it is not. In most cases in CA US for example, what you do on your time in the

Re: Allow incubator releases? [was: way too wordy]

2008-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:45 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a brand new idea? Lay down a Milestone-style chart of what it takes to operate as an ASF project. Demonstrate community of meritocracy, add committers or ppmc members based

Re: status of PGP support in Maven

2008-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Hiram Chirino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are maven plugins that can validate the checksums of 3rd party dependencies. Uhhh... Call me stupid, but how can checksum solve anything other than assuring that the download worked??

Re: [Proposal] Kato - mentors needed etc

2008-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Sonal Goyal wrote: I am an independent consultant interested in mentoring this project. A few things are not clear to me: 1. The Apache site http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html states that a working codebase is essential for incubation. How do we start if we are at the

Re: [Proposal] Kato - mentors needed etc

2008-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Steve Poole wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Sonal Goyal wrote: 2. Is it necessary for a mentor to be an Apache member or part of the Incubator PMC? How do I join otherwise ? There might be a disconnect here in the word Mentor. Mentorship here is strictly talking about organizing

Re: Allow incubator releases? [was: way too wordy]

2008-10-06 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:21 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drop any pretense that the incubator has a say over the already-done code releases, and we can seriously start the real discussion, which would have been motivating projects to graduate

Allow incubator releases? [was: way too wordy]

2008-10-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:45 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Color me confused again, but during setup and formation of the Incubator, a podling had to graduate before doing a release. It was rather well established before this rule was modified

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] [POLICY] Allow extra release distribution channels like the central Maven repository

2008-10-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Noel J. Bergman wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote: Does the ASF endorse these releases, and what does that endorsement mean? yes... You are talking about a legal licensing matter, whereas discussion during the setup and formation of the Incubator was quite

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] Accept VCL into Apache Incbator

2008-10-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Matt Hogstrom wrote: 7 Binding +1's and 2 non-binding. Binding votes were: Alan Cabrera Bertrand Delacretaz Matt Hogstrom Kevan Miller Matthieu Riou Craig Russell Henning Schmiedehausen Can the PMC ACK this result and we'll start the next step of the process? Nack nack nack, no

Re: Joining the PMC...

2008-09-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
James Carman wrote: Do I just send a request to the ASF board? Nope, the ASF board doesn't make committee choices for any PMC. Just let the Incubator PMC know you are interested (and since you posted to general@ you've done that already :)

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Because we (Apache) control the distribution channel? Nope. We control several distribution channels; offhand... www.apache.org/dist/{tlp}/ - ASF-wide policies (TLP 3x +1, more +1 than -1) www.apache.org/dist/incubator/podling/ - Incubator policies (+

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Right, that's why my VOTE was the way it was. Please check my VOTE :) Didn't argue with your vote; argued with your statement/query :) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jason van Zyl wrote: maven repository - Maven TLP (now that ASF has absorbed Maven server) The ASF has not absorbed the Maven server. Color me confused for having approved colocation expenses some 2 meetings back. This did not happen or will not happen?

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: And since we are paying for it...who (maven pmc?) exactly is tasked with taking care of it? As Jason (and Paul in a side channel) confirm, ASF is not paying for it at this point. That was my confusion based on an earlier board resolution.

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Exactly why in previous discussions i already asked...Can the maven folks provide another way to do this? (not showing disclaimers necessarily, something that the user has to do one time works too. Example: apt-get and keys) WHY do you keep conflating the idea of

Re: On incubating releases

2008-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Fine...Please state your *specific* use case scenario that is problematic right now The problem set is that this thread now exceeds 500 posts in four years, with only one technically appropriate conclusion. Bill

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] [POLICY] Allow extra release distribution channels like the central Maven repository

2008-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Matthieu Riou wrote: I've also looked at the mentors votes, those who are basically running this place. I'm a small player but Craig mentors 6 poddlings, Jim, Henning and Jukka 4 and Doug 3. I'm not saying their votes count more than others, just that when those people disagree, we should

Sharp contrasts

2008-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
It's interestingly ironic that the ASF has invested /substantial/ resources to counter a license grant that would require additional terms and conditions on any release of ASF software (e.g. Harmony, with respect to Sun's TCK terms and conditions), while many of the very same people who are

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