Re: [MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > MesaTEE report has been completed just a couple of days ago (starting from > version 50 at November2019 page). It may be the reason that other mentors > have not signed off yet. Quite likely I didn’t check the date and assumed it has been submitted on time. Looking at the report and the

Re: [MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Furkan KAMACI
Hi Justin, MesaTEE report has been completed just a couple of days ago (starting from version 50 at November2019 page). It may be the reason that other mentors have not signed off yet. Kind Regards, Furkan KAMACI On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Good to see most

[MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Good to see most podlings have had at lease one mentor sign off. Only one prodling Ratis is yet to get any mentor sign offs. It would be good to see more signs off on these projects: - Heron - PageSpeed - Tamaya - MesaTEE MesaTEE I’m a little conceded about as it has 6 mentors but so far

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-09 Thread Andrew Purtell
Thanks Roman. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as dedicated to Incubating projects, it will be a very

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: An addition of the overseeing committee, will shield the board from *some* of the day-to-day business of telling the pTLP that something needs to be fixed. Is this pretty close to IPMC in another name? No it isn't.

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as dedicated to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it involved in monitoring all of TLPs, not just pTLPs. What problem

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-06 Thread Doug Cutting
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: I'd much rather we be clear with projects right up front, saying something like: To join the Incubator, you need one or more mentors. To get to graduation, you will need the support of those mentors. If mentors become

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Dec 29, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: 3. patch the current process with starting to drop the mentors from the project who don't sign off. This will essentially serve as a heartbeat for mentors (now, in my opinion it'll quickly

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: 1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model This is effectively an IPMC reboot. I don’t really see anything substantially different. 2. make this a poddling issue: if a poddling fails to hunt down

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: I noted in my comments on the recent Incubator board report that I am concerned, month after month, at the number of podlings that have no mentor sign-off at all, as well as the ones where a minority of the mentors

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Struberg
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off Hi Rich! Thanks for raising this point and giving us a bit more of a forcing function to tackle an old problem: accountability for mentors. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: I certainly

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: 1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model This is effectively an IPMC reboot. I don’t really see anything substantially

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: As for measuring the mentors activity, I suggest simply adding a question to the podling reports, who are your two active mentors and are you happy with their activity along with requiring report sign-off from

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
...@apache.org Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 9:14 AM To: Incubator General general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off) Hi, I'm resending Alan's proposal

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/05/2015 12:14 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the mentor risks being removed for not performing their duties. For most mentors, it seems that going inactive is a gradual slide, not a momentous decision. --

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: 1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model This is

Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it deserves more attention. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: I am in favor of #3 since it holds mentors accountable. #1 is simply a washing of our hands and pawning the problem off on the board simple because some of us are unwilling to do uncomfortable things. Here's the bit

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...What's difficult is the part that would require us to do something with poddlings put on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria for this new state -- I don't think we're solving any real problems

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: What new thing is being proposed here?... This, meant to fix the mentors fade away problem: ...Podlings that do not have the minimum of two active mentors are put on hold until they find enough

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
general@incubator.apache.org Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On Monday, January 5, 2015, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it deserves more attention. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com javascript:; wrote: ...Podlings would be required

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: But the board is not responsible for any actions resulting from those reviews, the IPMC is. Agreed for the state of the things today. What is being proposed is that actions resulting from those

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 1:52 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: But the board is not responsible for any actions resulting from those

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every month_ or find someone else to do it. That's one person whom I wanted to ask to sign up, for the duration of an incubation, to pay enough attention to be able

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Andrew Purtell
One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as dedicated ​ ​ to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it involved ​ ​ in monitoring all of TLPs, not just pTLPs. What problem exists today where the Board needs ​such ​ a buffer? In what ways could

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, still since Ross' reply was one of the few pieces of feedback from the board, I'll do this one and then wait for others to chime in (Benson?). On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote:

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
[mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 3:39 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org; Benson Margulies Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, still since Ross' reply was one of the few pieces

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
actions resulting from those reviews, the IPMC is. Ross -Original Message- From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:31 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off It’s not a pawning

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread John D. Ament
Perhaps then, there's a recommendation that: - a member can be champion to only one pTLP at a time. - a member can be mentor to no more than two pTLP at a time. This to me looks like a good way to make sure a mentor can always do their job - make sure they're not overloaded. BTW these #'s (1

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Andrew Purtell
An addition of the overseeing committee, will shield the board from ​ ​ *some* of the day-to-day business of telling the pTLP that something ​ ​ needs to be fixed. Is this pretty close to IPMC in another name? Who gets to be on the new overseeing committee? Not current IPMC membership right? So

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
Makes sense :) Hadrian On 01/05/2015 06:41 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every month_ or find someone else to do it. That's one person whom I wanted to ask to sign

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Jan, On Jan 5, 2015, at 12:18 PM, jan i wrote: On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 3:39 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org; Benson Margulies Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, still since Ross' reply was one of the few pieces of feedback from the board

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
...@toolazydogs.com] Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 4:50 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off This statement confuses the lack of active mentors with the sheer size of the IPMC. The problem is not the size of the IPMC. The problem is that mentors are not doing

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
actions resulting from those reviews, the IPMC is. Ross -Original Message- From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:31 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off It’s not a pawning off

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Ted Dunning
When I sign up for helping a project, especially as champion, this is a very reasonable request. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
A champion is merely a mentor who has publicly committed to being an active mentor, in some significant capacity, of a podling. The creation of such a role is symptomatic of a dysfunctional organization where responsibility and accountability has been diluted so much it's not at all clear

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off This statement confuses the lack of active mentors with the sheer size of the IPMC. The problem is not the size of the IPMC. The problem is that mentors are not doing their jobs Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Mattmann, Chris

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, John D. Ament johndam...@apache.org wrote: This to me looks like a good way to make sure a mentor can always do their job - make sure they're not overloaded. BTW these #'s (1 2) should be subjective as I'm just making guesses for good #'s. Not only are

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part that would require us to do something with poddlings put on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria for this new state -- I don't think we're

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it deserves more attention. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...Podlings would be required to have a

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:36 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: ...I like this idea, except putting the full responsibility of finding new mentors on the shoulders of the... The Incubator PMC would help of course, but it's the podling who's in charge of asking for mentors, in the same way as when

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Upayavira
An IPMC responsibility is a no responsibility. How many people here are prepared to take on a struggling project for the love of the Incubator, with no particular interest or investment in the technology, or connection to the people involved? In the end, if a project wants to join the ASF, the

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','l...@toolazydogs.com'); wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM,

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part that would require us to do something with poddlings put on hold. Unless we

Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','l...@toolazydogs.com'); wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part that would require us to do

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','l...@toolazydogs.com'); wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The tracking part is easy,

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Upayavira
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 08:18 PM, jan i wrote: On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On 5 January 2015 at 21:57, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 08:18 PM, jan i wrote: On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D.

RE: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-31 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
[Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: So, promote those 20 people to ComDev PMC, promote them to ASF members, promote them however, my guess is that they *care* about the foundation; we want

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com wrote: ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm pretty sure in some cases that is an honorary arrangement agreed to by the community *loud red alarms going off all over my

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: ...It would be sad if this Incubator Community disappears in the proposed move of incubating project to be reporting directly to the ASF Board... With my board member hat on, you can count on a strong -1 from me on

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread jan i
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm pretty sure in some cases that is

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:04 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...I cannot see the Board ever mandating chair rotations. That is up to the community ...For projects that don't understand the difference between supportive and lead: yeah, they could use a dose of trout-slapping and a

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 30 Dec 2014, at 03:56, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com wrote: ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm pretty sure in some cases that is an honorary

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 00:56 To: Incubator General Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com wrote: ...Certainly some projects

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: ...outside of self-policing, is there a mechanism to ensure that something like this, disfavouring egoistic power, is in place? Note, I’m not sure it’s actually needed, just curious I don't think there's a formal

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/30/2014 09:00 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 30 Dec 2014, at 03:56, Bertrand Delacretazbdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell andrew.purt...@gmail.com wrote: ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 9:50:49 AM Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 12/21/2014 11:14 AM, John D. Ament wrote: I don't particularly like that idea. For one, I know that if I were to see 50%+ of mentors on a project I'm a mentor on sign off on the report, I'm probably going to look

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On Dec 30, 2014 10:27 AM, John D. Ament john.d.am...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 9:50:49 AM Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 12/21/2014 11:14 AM, John D. Ament wrote: I don't particularly like that idea. For one, I know that if I were to see 50%+ of mentors on a

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
@incubator.apache.org Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 1:09 AM To: Incubator General general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: ...It would be sad if this Incubator Community

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Chris, On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: ...http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorDeconstructionProposal ... Thanks for this, this looks like a good definition of the experiment. ...1. the documentation on *what* to do for

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
: Incubator report sign-off Hi Chris, On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: ...http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorDeconstructionProposal ... Thanks for this, this looks like a good definition of the experiment. Thanks. This has been

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: ...what’s also not useful is acting like a proposal that’s existed for years is something new - it’s been discussed - a simple Google search yielded hundreds of emails no the topic Besides taking

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament john.d.am...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely not just noise. Take the extra 2 seconds to add your sign off. I disagree. Checking a check box is much different than adding meaningful comments, either on mailing lists or on the report itself. For

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 1:26:31 PM Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament john.d.am...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely not just noise. Take the extra 2 seconds to add your sign off. I disagree. Checking a check box is much different than

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to look at this through a lens of failure analysis. How do podlings fail? I see two main patterns. 1. Failure to build a community. These are the podlings that we find adrift in space with the lights on

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 1:26:31 PM Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament john.d.am...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely not just noise. Take the extra 2 seconds to add your sign off

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
, December 30, 2014 8:05 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off Ross, I think we're actually on the same page. My point with ripple was not so much that it wasn't bringing it to anyone's attention (in fact the opposite, it's plastered all over the report

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: This is at the root of my proposal to *expect* mentors to have a vested interest in the success of a project. Every single one of us here shares that *expectation*. What this thread fails to address

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: So, promote those 20 people to ComDev PMC, promote them to ASF members, promote them however, my guess is that they *care* about the foundation; we want these people helping new projects, and they

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/19/2014 02:00 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: Strawman: What if a mentor is *required* to be an active participant of the project. That is contributing code, voting on releases and generally engaging with the community, they would be a better mentor since they have a vested

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks off of work. Catching up ... On 12/19/2014 01:10 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: First of all,*my* expectation is that multiple mentors on the project are more of redundancy or HA consideration. IOW, my expectation that a

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/19/2014 02:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: 1. Incubation yes, Incubator no a. (all Incubator documentation, active folks, etc., become part of the pool of [incoming project VP]) b. IPMC is dissolved c. We create a new “Incubation PMC” that includes most active members of

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/19/2014 02:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: What it would do however if we simply did away with the notion of the IPMC/Incubator/etc., is to return to the notion of pTLPs which were proposed earlier which I would most wholeheartedly support. Having read more, and understood more,

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding off on replying to see whether viewpoints that we haven's seen before would emerge. It seems that they didn't. It seems that we're still limited by the following options

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/23/2014 03:34 PM, sebb wrote: Flex had three great mentors, but to expect them to be the PMC Chair on graduation would have been problematic. They were great mentors because they had lots of experience from their work on other Apache projects, and thus didn’t have time to stay active on

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/21/2014 11:14 AM, John D. Ament wrote: I don't particularly like that idea. For one, I know that if I were to see 50%+ of mentors on a project I'm a mentor on sign off on the report, I'm probably going to look at things, but not add my signature. Not out of laziness, but in seeing that

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
On 12/29/2014 09:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding off on replying to see whether viewpoints that we haven's seen before would emerge. It seems that they didn't. It seems that

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
+1 On 12/29/2014 09:15 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks off of work. Catching up ... On 12/19/2014 01:10 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: First of all,*my* expectation is that multiple mentors on the project are more of redundancy

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Dec 29, 2014 12:11 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea hzbar...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/29/2014 09:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding off on replying to see whether viewpoints that we

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
saying sure I'd like to see more projects at the ASF Sent from my Windows Phone From: Rich Bowenmailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com Sent: ‎12/‎29/‎2014 6:13 AM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On 12

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Andrew Purtell
There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC Chair has the power to dissolve the PMC, and is an

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
of the PMC as a whole (or when there is no active PMC to make such a request). Ross -Original Message- From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:andrew.purt...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off There are honorary

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/29/2014 01:45 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC Chair

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/29/2014 02:46 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: The PMC Chair absolutely does*not* have the power to dissolve the PMC. Only the Board of Directors have that authority and they will only do that at the request of the PMC as a whole (or when there is no active PMC to make such a

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Andrew Purtell
Agreed, it's not worth debating project lead as a formal or informal construct. I don't think we are on the same page. Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm pretty sure in some cases that is an honorary arrangement agreed to by the community. On Dec

Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
report sign-off There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC Chair has the power to dissolve

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks off of work. Catching up ... Oh, man! I was about to take a strong and decisive action today ;-) Seriously -- welcome back into this conversation.

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: Roman, please forgive me absence from this conversation. I started the thread, and then went on Christmas vacation. I am still on vacation for another week, but will attempt to keep up with the conversation here, and not

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to look at this through a lens of failure analysis. How do podlings fail? I see two main patterns. 1. Failure to build a community. These are the podlings that we find adrift in space with the lights on but no one home on the mailing list. 2. Failure to build an _Apache_ community.

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 well said. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Benson Marguliesmailto:bimargul...@gmail.com Sent: ‎12/‎29/‎2014 6:25 PM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I'd like to look at this through

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 29 Dec 2014, at 18:54, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: But a move of reporting-to authority does not have to change any of that, does it? Depends on how much of an anarchist one is :-) and what is meant by authority, too, I suppose. But, to answer the question, I would say,

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 Dec 2014, at 18:54, Stian Soiland-Reyes st...@apache.org wrote: But a move of reporting-to authority does not have to change any of that, does it? Depends on how much of an anarchist one is :-) and what is

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