Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-07 Thread Martijn Dashorst
+1 to Ted's message. I am not trying to sabotage the proposal, just trying to point out the potential problems you might run into during incubation/at graduation. IIUC, you can release code that is completely vetted, so if parts are still unvetted, it would not prevent you from releasing the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift]

2008-02-07 Thread Shane Curcuru
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santiago Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2008 2:48 PM, Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:20 AM, David Reiss wrote: J Aaron Farr wrote: snip... 1. You have to use subversion. Why? Has been a vote done? where? I vote +1 for git if a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-07 Thread Ted Husted
On that note, since there has been so discussion on this thread, I think it might be time to open another thread and formally decide whether to accept the Thrift proposal, which I will go do now. -Ted. On Feb 7, 2008 9:14 AM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 to Ted's message. I am

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-07 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 2/8/08, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On that note, since there has been so discussion on this thread, I think it might be time to open another thread and formally decide whether to accept the Thrift proposal, which I will go do now. That was my aim. I didn't want the proposal

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-05 Thread Ted Husted
Yes, there is a subtle disjoint or two. :) Excluding patches that simply modify an existing artifact, we do need licensing agreements from all individual contributors, regardless of whether they become ASF committers or members of the podling PMC. Otherwise, the ASF does not have clear title to

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 2/1/08, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, dropping parts of the code feels counterproductive to me, as I think it might put up a perceived barrier to collaboration with the Thrift project. As long as you remember that you can't release or graduate without properly audited code

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 2/4/08, Andrus Adamchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as you remember that you can't release or graduate without properly audited code with a paper trail to the original author of the code. You can release from the incubator before all IP is cleared. No you can't: from the policy

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 2/4/08, Andrus Adamchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are right. I just doublechecked Cayenne incubator release history, and we did clear all our IP issues before posting the first release. Anyways, throwing away the code just to *enter* the Incubator is neither required True

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Sorry, you are right. I just doublechecked Cayenne incubator release history, and we did clear all our IP issues before posting the first release. Anyways, throwing away the code just to *enter* the Incubator is neither required nor seems like a good approach. Andrus On Feb 4, 2008, at

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: And to be quite frank, it feels very counterproductive to me to remove code from the project with full a priori intention of putting it back in. Are you sure you will get the appropriate ICLA's from all the authors that have

RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Slee
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift On 2/4/08, Andrus Adamchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are right. I just doublechecked Cayenne incubator release history, and we did clear all our IP issues before posting the first release. Anyways, throwing away the code just

RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-04 Thread Upayavira
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:48 -0800, Mark Slee wrote: Well, note that this isn't strictly an IP issue. The issue here was the committers list, not the IP of the code. I don't see why all the code would need to be written by people on the initial committers list to pass IP restrictions. These

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-03 Thread Santiago Gala
On Feb 2, 2008 2:48 PM, Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:20 AM, David Reiss wrote: J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? Probably not very well :-). Basically, we know how to do the apache- style open source

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-03 Thread J Aaron Farr
David Reiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? Leo already gave a decent explanation. Basically, it comes down to two aspects: 1) infrastructure support 2) cultural bias There's no No git rule that I know

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:20 AM, David Reiss wrote: J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? Probably not very well :-). Basically, we know how to do the apache- style open source process using centralized version control, we don't quite know how

Re: [Thrift] RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Upayavira wrote: As you can see from other proposals, I think you'll find it work better with a single committer pool. As others have said, I personally have never seen a problem with this approach - people steer away from code that they are unfamiliar with, or

RE: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Mark Slee
. Removing people's code from the project could send an insulting and negative message. Cheers, Mark -Original Message- From: Martijn Dashorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:39 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift Perhaps

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Matthieu Riou
even be included in the proposal? Cheers, Matthieu Cheers, Mark -Original Message- From: Martijn Dashorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:39 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift Perhaps in the interest of code

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread David Reiss
J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? We have at least seven contributors (three at Facebook, four external) using git-svn right now, and I know that at least a few of us would really like to use native Git as the main repository for Thrift.

Re: [Thrift] Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Upayavira
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:20 -0800, David Reiss wrote: J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? We have at least seven contributors (three at Facebook, four external) using git-svn right now, and I know that at least a few of us would

Re: [Thrift] Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Feb 1, 2008 4:48 PM, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:20 -0800, David Reiss wrote: J Aaron Farr wrote: git could be an issue. Can you explain what the issue is with Git? We have at least seven contributors (three at Facebook, four external) using

Re: Re: [Thrift] Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread David Reiss
Thanks for the explanations. Maybe it is too early for me to start evangelizing, but let me know if either of these factors makes a difference. 1/ I don't think we would be putting any load on the Apache infrastructure team. As Matthieu said, it would take about five minutes for one of us to

Re: [Thrift] Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-02-01 Thread Upayavira
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:21 -0800, David Reiss wrote: Thanks for the explanations. Maybe it is too early for me to start evangelizing, but let me know if either of these factors makes a difference. 1/ I don't think we would be putting any load on the Apache infrastructure team. As

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-31 Thread David Reiss
Niclas is correct - this can create hardships, resentments, control issues in your community. If it's a simple as we don't trust you Java folks on day one to properly indent Python code I can sympathize with that concept. That's about the extent of what we were thinking, but there has been so

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 15:24, Mark Slee wrote: What we'd really like to set up here is a system where there are different people with committer priveleges to different parts of the project. Hmmm... I would oppose this for two reasons; 1. Creating boundaries within a project, yet

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Kitching
Niclas Hedhman schrieb: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 15:24, Mark Slee wrote: What we'd really like to set up here is a system where there are different people with committer priveleges to different parts of the project. Hmmm... I would oppose this for two reasons; 1. Creating

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Fremantle
Niclas I also had exactly the same thoughts on reading the email. I think learning that committership is a position of trust is a key part of the incubation process. So I'm +1 on the proposal, but I would definitely be -1 on graduation if such a scheme were to be implemented during incubation.

Re: [Thrift] RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Upayavira
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 23:24 -0800, Mark Slee wrote: Hi Martin, *If I look at the initial committers list, I see a big portion to be facebook developers. During incubation you should work on diversifying.* *Again, it seems like a huge contingent of facebook developers. You really should

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Erik Abele
On 30.01.2008, at 10:35, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 15:24, Mark Slee wrote: What we'd really like to set up here is a system where there are different people with committer priveleges to different parts of the project. Hmmm... I would oppose this for two reasons; 1.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:30, Erik Abele wrote: In the end they are here to learn The A Way and if it turns out to be   a problem then they won't be able to graduate so I think it's   premature to turn down the proposal just because of this. Correct, but putting it in place increases the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Niall Pemberton
Dashorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:34 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift On 1/24/08, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === Core Developers === Thrift currently has developers across many

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Yoav Shapira
On Jan 30, 2008 2:24 AM, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we'd really like to set up here is a system where there are different people with committer priveleges to different parts of the project. I'm not a huge fan of this, but I love the rest of the proposal, so +1 to it! I'm also

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread J Aaron Farr
Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have feedback? If no objections are voiced, when would it be appropriate for us to move forward with a VOTE thread on this? Sorry for not responding. I flagged the email when I first saw it but didn't have time to respond. Overall the proposal is

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Leo Simons
On Jan 30, 2008, at 4:45 PM, J Aaron Farr wrote: Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have feedback? If no objections are voiced, when would it be appropriate for us to move forward with a VOTE thread on this? Sorry for not responding. I flagged the email when I first saw it but didn't

Re: [Thrift] RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Maurer
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Upayavira wrote: As you can see from other proposals, I think you'll find it work better with a single committer pool. As others have said, I personally have never seen a problem with this approach - people steer away from code that they are unfamiliar with, or tend to ask

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Yoav Shapira wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 2:24 AM, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we'd really like to set up here is a system where there are different people with committer priveleges to different parts of the project. I'm not a huge fan of this, but I love the rest of the proposal, so +1

Re: [Thrift] RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 11:50 -0500, Ben Maurer wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Upayavira wrote: As you can see from other proposals, I think you'll find it work better with a single committer pool. As others have said, I personally have never seen a problem with this approach - people steer

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread David Reiss
If there are people who have already proven their *merit* on the project that are not included on the initial list of committers then I think they should be. In reality, many parts of the Thrift code base are already entirely owned by non-Facebook entities. The Cocoa, C#, Perl, and

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Perhaps in the interest of code audit (which needs to be done) and community building, the code parts of the missing committers should be removed from the code drop prior to incubation start, and be re-introduced inside the incubating podling by providing patches through bugzilla? Martijn On

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Matthieu Riou
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSAL] Thrift Hi all, We've just posted the Apache Incubator proposal for Thrift onto the Wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ThriftProposal For those who prefer reading Wiki markup directly, it is copied below. Cheers, Mark = Thrift

Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-29 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 1/24/08, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === Core Developers === Thrift currently has developers across many organizations (e.g. Facebook, Powerset, ReCaptcha, AmieStreet), many of whom are contributors to other open source projects. If I look at the initial committers list, I see a

RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-29 Thread Upayavira
-Original Message- From: Mark Slee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:07 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSAL] Thrift Hi all, We've just posted the Apache Incubator proposal for Thrift onto the Wiki: http

RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Slee
, 2008 1:34 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift On 1/24/08, Mark Slee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === Core Developers === Thrift currently has developers across many organizations (e.g. Facebook, Powerset, ReCaptcha, AmieStreet), many of whom

RE: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Slee
for us to move forward with a VOTE thread on this? Cheers, Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Slee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:07 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSAL] Thrift Hi all, We've just posted the Apache