Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Dave Fisher
On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...Chris proposes that this committee recommend its own demise to the board, to be replaced, in large part, by the board itself. Every board member who has

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 3 April 2013 14:41, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for the clarification, Ant. Is the documentation ignored? Whenever I

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...Chris proposes that this committee recommend its own demise to the board, to be

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Ant is reflecting a real dilemma here. At Apache, we try to be egalitarian, and we try to work by consensus. The natural conclusion is that the many people needed to vote on releases are also part of the

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Why is it so hard to see that the board is already watching those 22 nascent projects in the same manner they watch the 137

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Benson Margulies
As I see it, the incubator as we have it is a mechanism for coping with the lack of mentor commitment. As Ross often writes, it's easy to say that Mentors *should* make this commitment, but mentors are volunteers, and things happen. Upayavira wonders if Mentor 'harvest glory' and then wander away.

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...How about the following more incremental experiment: we do what Upayavira says: we set a higher bar for mentors at podling start time. We ask them to make a public statement of commitment that for some period

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Ross Gardler
On 4 April 2013 09:06, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Why is it so hard to see that the board is already watching

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Just a thought. Chris' solution says 'make mentors the initial PMC'. They vote in other project team members as appropriate to be peers. This creates a positive egalitarian setup which mirrors that of a PMC, which is a good

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Having said that, here's an idea that builds on your proposal. There is already the opportunity to name the board as the sponsoring organisation. Why not say where the board is willing to sponsor the project it can

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Ross Gardler
On 4 April 2013 08:46, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...Chris proposes

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: As I see it, the incubator as we have it is a mechanism for coping with the lack of mentor commitment. As Ross often writes, it's easy to say that Mentors *should* make this commitment, but mentors are volunteers,

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 4 April 2013 09:06, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mattmann, Chris A (388J)

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Benson writes: We ask them to make a public statement of commitment that for some period of time (six months) they commit to thinking of themselves _as a PMC_, not just as some sort of diffuse advisors or coaches... +1 to the change of mentality. Bertrand replies: I like that - I'd say 3

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: ...If Mentors fall away after phase 1 ends, it's less of a problem. Replacing Mentors is less consequential once the code base has reached the known good state of having made it through the release process

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from a mobile device, please excuse mistakes and brevity On 4 Apr 2013 15:17, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 4 April 2013 09:06, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:20 PM,

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-04-04 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Hey Ross, -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013 6:22 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator structure (was Re:

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Mesos 0.11.0-incubating (RC1)

2013-04-04 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Dear Ben, +1 from me (binding): SIGS check out: [terra:~/tmp/apache-mesos-0.11.0-incubating] mattmann% $HOME/bin/verify_gpg_sigs Verifying Signature for file mesos-0.11.0-incubating.tar.gz.asc gpg: Signature made Thu Mar 7 14:41:36 2013 PST using RSA key ID F6FB762C gpg: Good signature from

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Mesos 0.11.0-incubating (RC1)

2013-04-04 Thread sebb
On 5 April 2013 04:07, Mattmann, Chris A (398J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Dear Ben, -Original Message- From: Benjamin Hindman b...@berkeley.edu Reply-To: mesos-...@incubator.apache.org mesos-...@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:52 PM To: