Re: Wrapping it up: Retirement decision making

2012-12-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Also, I'm too lazy to troll through the list to collect the two new additional mentors for Chukwa, I think that it was Ant and Jukka. Can Ant and Jukka confirm? Confirmed. BR, Jukka Zitting

Wrapping it up: Retirement decision making

2012-12-09 Thread Alan Cabrera
If no one minds I think it would be a good idea for the docs to be updated with our new common understanding. What I propose is for for a wiki page with the new wording to be created for us to comment/vote on. I'm happy to consolidate the current thinking on this. Also, I'm too lazy to troll

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Hence my idea to do away with the rule of thumb and stick to at least one responsible PMC member How will that work? IIUC your idea, the resulting PMC cannot get 3 PMC votes so it cannot operate. I don't want to

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 November 2012 00:52, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters of the recent 'small graduates' was that they had around 5 initial PMC members, and some detectable evidence that all of them were in the reasonably regular habit of

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Ariel Rabkin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 30 November 2012 00:52, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters of the recent 'small graduates' was that they had around 5 initial PMC members, and some

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Hence my idea to do away with the rule of thumb and stick to at least one responsible PMC member How will that work? IIUC your idea, the resulting PMC

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...I'd say you need at least five active PMC members at graduation time... ...Maybe that could be a requirement, if the mentors think that the podling is not

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...I'd say you need at least five active PMC members at graduation time...

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-30 Thread Eric Yang
+1 on active PMC duties would be fine to ensure continuation of the project. regards, Eric On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 30 November 2012 00:52, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters of

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Greg Reddin wrote: ...What difference does it make to the ASF if a project is very small or very slow?... IMO, as long as there's three or more active PMC members who react when needed, and provide the quarterly board reports, a small/slow project is fine and

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Greg Reddin wrote: ...What difference does it make to the ASF if a project is very small or very slow?... IMO, as long as there's three or more active PMC members who react

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Ross Gardler
On 29 November 2012 08:56, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.orgwrote: On Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Greg Reddin wrote: ...What difference does it make to the ASF if a project is very small or very slow?... IMO, as long as there's three or more active PMC members who react when

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:14 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 29 November 2012 08:56, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.orgwrote: On Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Greg Reddin wrote: ...What difference does it make to the ASF if a project is very small or very slow?... IMO, as long as there's

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Would you also add the three or more active PMC members requirement? What constitutes active?... IMO the bare minimum is being able to find three PMC members to vote on things when needed. Once a project gets below

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Would you also add the three or more active PMC members requirement? What constitutes active?... IMO the bare minimum is being able to find three PMC

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Ross Gardler
On 29 November 2012 14:59, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Would you also add the three or more active PMC members requirement? What constitutes

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 29 November 2012 14:59, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Would you also add the three or

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 29/11/12 14:53, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Would you also add the three or more active PMC members requirement? What constitutes active?... IMO the bare minimum is being able to find three PMC members to vote

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Benson Margulies
Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters of the recent 'small graduates' was that they had around 5 initial PMC members, and some detectable evidence that all of them were in the reasonably regular habit of contributing code, let alone voting for releases. If we insist on testing the absolute

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-29 Thread Alan Cabrera
Hence my idea to do away with the rule of thumb and stick to at least one responsible PMC member. What problem are we trying to avoid by having this activity/diversity boundary? Regards, Alan On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: The current vote thread for retirement of Chukwa, coupled with some of the other discussion threads, raises some questions that need to be resolved. How do we make retirement decisions?

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Williams
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: 2: While I appreciate that mentors are not entirely fungible, I tend to think in terms of a limited pool of volunteer effort, so indefinite incubation worries me. It's their decision to volunteer their efforts in

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28 November 2012 13:42, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: I have only one point of discomfort with Ross' writing here. Ross's position, in this and other messages, seems to me to be that it a podling can persist indefinitely, so long as (a) it has involved mentors, and (b)

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: I have only one point of discomfort with Ross' writing here. Ross's position, in this and other messages, seems to me to be that it a podling can persist indefinitely, so long as (a) it has involved mentors, and

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...Slow poddlings don't use much ASF resource so aren't a burden... I disagree: podlings do use mentor's energy - graduating or retiring them is a way to free up mentors for other incoming podlings. -Bertrand

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28 November 2012 14:32, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.orgwrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...Slow poddlings don't use much ASF resource so aren't a burden... I disagree: podlings do use mentor's energy - graduating or retiring them is

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...Slow poddlings don't use much ASF resource so aren't a burden... I disagree: podlings do use mentor's energy - graduating or retiring

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Benson Margulies
The question of a time limit is like other questions we deal with: we don't want to set a hard limit, but the idea of incubation going along for years and years is not consistent with the vision of what the incubator is. Sam was at pains to present this dilemma, not to ask for some kind of hard

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:41 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...Slow poddlings don't use much ASF resource so aren't a burden...

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Cabrera
I've been giving this some thought and I've worked hard at keeping it short and sweet. So finer points are left out but I hope they are obvious. What does ASF's Imprimatur mean? Does it mean that project is diverse and vibrant? No. Does it mean that the project's committers and PMC

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Ross Gardler
+1 For me mentoring ends when the PPMC is able to demonstrate that it can work in a way that will build diversity, not necessarily when diversity is achieved. Ross Sent from my tablet On Nov 28, 2012 8:47 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: I've been giving this some thought and I've

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...I'm wondering if it makes sense to do away with the diversity and vibrant dictum and merely state that at least one person is reasonably active and that all the PMC members are trustworthy I wouldn't want to

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...I'm wondering if it makes sense to do away with the diversity and vibrant dictum and merely state that at least one person is reasonably active and that all

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Benson Margulies
TLPs do, sometimes, retire. Some of them have retired precisely because all the contributors disappeared due to seismic events at work. The board has been observed to keep a TLP alive really to the last possible moment -- the point where there were less than three people to vote on a release.

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: TLPs do, sometimes, retire. Some of them have retired precisely because all the contributors disappeared due to seismic events at work. The board has been observed to keep a TLP alive really to the last possible moment -- the point where

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: TLPs do, sometimes, retire. Some of them have retired precisely because all the contributors disappeared due to seismic events at work. The board has been observed to keep a TLP alive really to the last possible

Re: Retirement decision making

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: If we have shepherds to monitor the all too human mentors, should we not also have reapers, to monitor TLPs? I'm all for being on the optimistic side and graduate small projects but, sometimes, I feel it's done because