Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: Your second suggestion sounds like the thing to do to me - separating IPMC-ship and Mentor-ship - that would solve several of the problems we've being having including this one, it would open up a much bigger pool of

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: ...As to whether such lists should be encouraged for new podlings (probably by putting a stub in the proposal template alongside the other lists), I can't say that I have a strong opinion IIUC Noah's proposal

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:35 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...Your second suggestion sounds like the thing to do to me - separating IPMC-ship and Mentor-ship... ...I'd like to try this, perhaps as a sort of

[jira] [Created] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread John D. Ament (JIRA)
John D. Ament created PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: -- Summary: Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, As I said before I'm currently against having mentors who are not Incubator PMC members, As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see bottom of [1]).This may exclude people with practical

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Justin Mclean justinmcl...@gmail.com wrote: ...As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see bottom of [1])... you don't - Apache members can become IPMC members just

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: Hi, As I said before I'm currently against having mentors who are not Incubator PMC members, As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Benson Margulies
I suppose that as chair I ought to be heard from here. I've been off for Passover for a bit. In my view, the IPMC manifests two problems. I'd like to label them as 'operational' and 'decision-making'. This thread is about decision-making, but with some people seeing using terms like

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13615145#comment-13615145 ] Mark Struberg commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: Hi! For having

[jira] [Updated] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Mark Struberg updated PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: --- Attachment: deltaspike.com Bildschirmfoto 2013-03-27 um

Fwd: [VOTE] Recommending DeltaSpike for Graduation to an Apache Top Level Project

2013-03-27 Thread John D. Ament
FYI, Apache DeltaSpike looking to graduate soon. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:35 PM Subject: [VOTE] Recommending DeltaSpike for Graduation to an Apache Top Level Project To: deltaspike-us...@incubator.apache.org

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 (binding) On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. A few releases were made and the status page has been

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: ...We now kindly ask the IPMC to review our findings and vote on the Onami graduation... +1 -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg
+1 (binding) LieGrue, strub - Original Message - From: Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:04 AM Subject: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD Hi all, Apache Onami entered

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: We now kindly ask the IPMC to review our findings and vote on the Onami graduation. [ X ] +1, yes propose the graduation of Apache Onami to the board [ ] -1, no, don't let Apache Onami graduate, because... +1 -- Rich Bowen

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons why it might be a good idea for some projects? What would I have to do to add that? If I prepare a patch to the docs, would it be CTR or RTC? On 27

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons why it might be a good idea for some projects? Yes, sounds good to me if it's

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Or it might 'work', but some might feel that this large, diffuse, group, operating by majority rules is either inconsistent with Apache policy or a bad example for the podlings. Thats more how i see it. Using

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
The incubator is currently of a scale that means it can no longer operate as a standard consensus driven PMC. It is not that much smaller than the TLPs part of the foundation. Perhaps it would make sense to see how the model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: ASF Members

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 March 2013 15:54, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, i propose we have an experiment [1] where we try having a mentor or two who are not PMC members. Have some other experienced mentors helping to

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I am under the impression that having a low-volume, high-signal announcement channel is generally beneficial to most projects that try it. I

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 27 March 2013 15:54, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, i propose we have an experiment [1] where we try having a mentor or

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons why it might be a good idea for some projects? What would I have to do to add

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Jason Porter (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13615470#comment-13615470 ] Jason Porter commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: --- IIRC, Dan was the

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Greg Reddin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Perhaps it would make sense to see how the model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: ... [snip] ... Why can't the IPMC work like that? Well, to a large extent it does. Here are the

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 16:28, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: Do the general announce list lag behind because there are individual lists ? I see no reason why they would. On 27 March 2013 16:31, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: The minute that is in the guides, I'm

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it must also be copied to annou...@apache.org, and vice-versa. This is how I

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Putting it in policy is probably as close as we can get to automation. ;) On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something like:

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it must

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 Mar 2013 16:43, Greg Reddin gred...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Perhaps it would make sense to see how the model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: ... [snip] ... Why can't the IPMC

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg
My personal experience: There are a few people registered to annou...@apache.org, but there is a low registration rate for the respective subproject lists. At least not for most projects. Thus said: if you would create an announce list for all projects and send the ANN mails only to those

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 18:37, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: My personal experience: There are a few people registered to annou...@apache.org, but there is a low registration rate for the respective subproject lists. At least not for most projects. That's to be expected, though, right? We

[VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread Matthieu Morel
Hi everyone, this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed for RC3 with 6+1's with 5 of them binding: +1 IPMC (phunt) +1PPMC (mmorel, kishoreg, leoneu, fpj) +1 committer non PPMC (dferro) Here is the vote thread on

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel mmo...@apache.org wrote: Hi everyone, this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed for RC3 with 6+1's with 5 of them binding: +1 IPMC (phunt) +1PPMC (mmorel, kishoreg,

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, this is a very interesting proposal. Let me ask a few questions. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Why shouldn't the IPMC create an equivalent to the one item in the above governance structure that is missing today. That is why shouldn't it

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from a mobile device, please excuse mistakes and brevity On 27 Mar 2013 20:12, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is a very interesting proposal. Let me ask a few questions. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Why

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread Matthieu Morel
Thanks for the feedback, I replied inline. On Mar 27, 2013, at 21:00 , sebb wrote: On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel mmo...@apache.org wrote: Hi everyone, this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Niall Pemberton
+1 Niall On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. A few releases were made and the status page has been completed:

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Benson Margulies
The first thing I'd like to do, coordination-wise, is to call a vote on the proposal to decide things by majority. I think that this would help with some of the problems we hit, and we can meanwhile continue to discuss larger structural changes. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Ross Gardler

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 20:57, Matthieu Morel mmo...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for the feedback, I replied inline. On Mar 27, 2013, at 21:00 , sebb wrote: On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel mmo...@apache.org wrote: Hi everyone, this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: One alternative to going for full-on majority voting is to recognize that a larger group is much more likely to have noisy vetoes by requiring that

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Joseph Schaefer
This whole exercise is pointless. Just drop the notion of vetoes for all IPMC votes and carry on as before. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Mar

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Doug Cutting
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: I think it should be 3/4 majority. I agree that supermajority would be better than simple majority here. Moving to simple majority seems too radical. Over time it's more prone to building a PMC that cannot easily

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: One alternative to going for full-on majority voting is to

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 (binding). Good luck! Cheers, Chris On 3/26/13 12:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. A few releases were made and the status page has

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether Apache DeltaSpike is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Charles Moulliard (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13616084#comment-13616084 ] Charles Moulliard commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: Name is