Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: ...Of course, it isn't politic to ask a high profile mentor to recuse themselves for lack of helping Maybe we need to add no politics allowed to our collection of slogans ;-) If someone's not active as a mentor,

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Upayavira
But if someone sees mentorship as some kind of status, and you politely ask them to quit as a mentor through complete inactivity, the polite approach might not yield results given their attachment to the apparent status. In the end, in such scenarios, it'll take an impartial rule to resolve that

RE: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Two thoughts ... -- replying to -- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 00:33 To: Incubator General Subject: Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Ted Dunning
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: ...Of course, it isn't politic to ask a high profile mentor to recuse themselves for lack of helping Maybe we need to add no

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/24/14, 2:43 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: But if someone sees mentorship as some kind of status, and you politely ask them to quit as a mentor through complete inactivity, the polite approach might not yield results given their attachment to the apparent status. In the end, in

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/24/14, 9:23 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Who would like to send such an email to mentors who have missed, say, all of the sign-offs next to their name for a period of 4 months? I would do it if I was on the PPMC of a podling and lack of sign-offs was affecting progress.

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: ...Of course, it isn't politic to ask a high profile mentor to recuse themselves for lack of helping Maybe we need to add no

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-24 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: ...Of course, it isn't politic to ask a high profile mentor

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/22/14, 10:35 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Aren't there loads and loads of presos, webinars, slides etc from various ApacheCons and other FOSS conf's which detailed the Apache Way? These would be

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
tl;dr; agree with a problem statement, don't think that proposal wording has much to do with solving the problem, would love to see mentors do more. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: I was wondering... What we *REALLY* want are projects that are interested

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Sean Owen sro...@apache.org wrote: I was going to ask the same. I've seen ~5 proposals now, and was surprised to see how they all copied and pasted the same boilerplate to answer several points, including this stanza about risk of excessive fascination with the

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 23 Dec 2014, at 13:53, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: tl;dr; agree with a problem statement, don't think that proposal wording has much to do with solving the problem, would love to see mentors do more. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: I

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: On 12/22/14, 10:35 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Aren't there loads and loads of presos, webinars, slides etc from various ApacheCons and

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Tim Williams
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: I was wondering... What we *REALLY* want are projects that are interested more in The Apache Way than in the Apache Brand. We need to make it more clear, somehow, that new projects want to enter the ASF because they

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Tim Williams william...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: I was wondering... What we *REALLY* want are projects that are interested more in The Apache Way than in the Apache Brand. We need to make it

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-23 Thread jonathon
On 23/12/14 22:25, Ted Dunning wrote: I think that the time was well spent, but one of the three mentors was total AWOL during this process. Being absent during crucial discussions If a mentor can't show up at the beginning of the project, when things are being discussed, why is s/he a

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Sean Owen
I was going to ask the same. I've seen ~5 proposals now, and was surprised to see how they all copied and pasted the same boilerplate to answer several points, including this stanza about risk of excessive fascination with the brand. I also suspect that there is excessive fascination, and that

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread jan i
On Monday, December 22, 2014, Sean Owen sro...@apache.org wrote: I was going to ask the same. I've seen ~5 proposals now, and was surprised to see how they all copied and pasted the same boilerplate to answer several points, including this stanza about risk of excessive fascination with the

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Upayavira
I have always thought that there would be value in reviewing the topics in our project proposals. Ideally, we would review them to make sure all questions are open ended, rather than having a clear expected answer: Could we replace Inexperience with Open Source (which begs the answer, No, we

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Joe Witt
Hello I am a very new participant in Apache and a member of the ppmc for apache nifi (incubating). So I thought it would be good to share that perspective for this discussion... In writing the NiFi proposal this section was honestly a bit awkward. The other sections are largely about providing

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: What we *REALLY* want are projects that are interested more in The Apache Way than in the Apache Brand. What is The Apache Way, anyway? There's no coherent, authoritative definition -- and therefore, transgressions are

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Edward J. Yoon
Agree with Upayavira. And, I think the mentors need to be more diverse. Sometimes I can predict the result of vote. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: What we *REALLY* want are

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
Aren't there loads and loads of presos, webinars, slides etc from various ApacheCons and other FOSS conf's which detailed the Apache Way? On Dec 22, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: What we

Re: P. An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand

2014-12-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 22 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Aren't there loads and loads of presos, webinars, slides etc from various ApacheCons and other FOSS conf's which detailed the Apache Way? These would be where? And, if we don’t already have a “place” for them (including