Re: [VOTE] Graduate Lucene.Net as a subproject under Apache Lucene

2009-10-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
George Aroush wrote: [X] +1 Graduate Lucene.Net as a sub-project under Apache Lucene. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Click as an Apache TLP

2009-10-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bob Schellink wrote: I would like to start a vote to recommend the graduation of Apache Click as a Top Level Project to the Board. Please cast your vote: [X] +1 to recommend Click's graduation - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: Sponsors * Champion: Greg Stein Cool * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel Rall Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads'). It puts certain committers above others, an inequitable situation. If the PPMC

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Subversion project would like to join the Apache Software Foundation to remove the overhead of having to run its own corporation. The Subversion project is already run quite like an Apache project, and already counts a number of ASF Members amongst its committers.

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings how to work here at Apache. I'm a little confused. I'm reading a really long rant here, but I expect if you look at what nearly all mentors do in their respective podlings, this is exactly what they

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and necessary for graduation - not the

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com Let me put it another way: if the IPMC accepts a proposal with one mentor, then I'm fine with that one mentor acting on behalf of the IPMC without the need to constantly go back to the IPMC for approval. -- justin For

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: Yup. And I'll note that that limbo you describe has been an issue with the Board for a long while now. That is why the Board instructed the IPMC to request all podlings to list two items in their reports: 1) when did you arrive? 2) what is left? Specifically to focus

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martijn Dashorst wrote: Would a waiver be possible for Diversity (large project dominated by 1 or 2 vendors)? For the minimum required binding votes (small communities of 2 committers)? Such things have been requested, and granted in the past, based on the demonstrated ability of the project

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Leo Simons wrote: Here's what I understand: 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must be made by PMCs 2) Apache rule: a release needs at least 3 binding +1s and more +1s than -1s 3) from #1 and #2 it follows that all incubator releases must be made by the incubator PMC If you see a way

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB and libintl support. Of the three, the only thing an Eclipse

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: As an SVN committer, I can say that this is not something that is of concern to me (and I dare say I probably speak for all or at least most of the other committers when I say that). Thanks for that reassurance... Finally, I will also add that we have had our SVN Corp

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:48, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Quite frankly, all svncorp releases could, with reasonable documentation [read: mailing list archives, CLA's and code grant] be licensed as ASF releases under the AL 2.0, irrespective

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of releases as it pleases. The three +1 rule was developed to show that the PMC is in charge of the release, and is therefore legally liable for it. The IPMC can do whatever it likes around releases, as long

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: Wait a minute. Are you implying that the project *should* release binaries? Wouldn't such a requirement apply to, say, APR, to keep this close to home? s/should/may/ Greg pointed out I make win32 binaries and these are not mandated, I do so only because I trusted that

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: I do not believe the project wants to be in the business of providing binaries and we have an existing ecosystem of people that are providing them successfully. As long as non-committer artifacts aren't hosted here, that is no trouble. If nobody on SVN wants to create

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: - Original Message From: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:08:40 AM Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) Greg wrote

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of Make a Release requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make a release before graduation. As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF. Packaging, licensing, signing, placement into the

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: I have no idea why the term Board even comes up in your response. What's that got to do with my problems with the IPMC attempting to impose make-work on the svn podling? Because when you post to a broad-list such as general@, you are communicating to all incubating podlings

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: If you want to review *bits* rather than *release process*, then you can take a look at trunk/ or the nightlies that we'll soon produce. If you want release process *and* Apache-branding, then the svn community is not prepared to provide that, nor do I think it necessary

Re: svn website (was: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education)

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: We're not sure what we'd like to do about website migration right now. Discussion is still occurring in the community. The bottom line is that we are in sync in terms of what aught to move into ASF and have 'formal recognition' ASAP. E.g. a mailing list is trivial, svn is

Re: Publishing api docs for Subversion

2009-12-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Doug Cutting wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: So I'm not too clear on what your objections are. * Do you object to publishing non-released documentation on the project Web pages? I object to posting these outside of a clearly-marked developer portion of the project's web site.

Re: How documentation != code, and how to do policy (was: Re: Publishing api docs for Subversion)

2009-12-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: So, any policy in the area is not really bound in the legal space, and more in the 'representation of ASF'-space. No, there is a legal distinction between work-product (the intermediate steps) and a publication. Posts like this might attempt to muddy the distinction, so

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-02-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
+1 On 2/3/2010 1:57 AM, Gav... wrote: This system is not applied to most TLPs, though they can request it. And I'm betting that every single project that graduates will make that request rather than learn the old cumbersome way. ++1 :)

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-02-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/4/2010 11:24 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: In that case, +0 from me. We gain the elimination of the p.a.o bit but lose the benefit of the delay, so it's basically a wash, as far as I'm concerned. After several years of watching incubator site commits, I don't see this is a serious problem.

Re: Will your project feature at ApacheCon North America 2010?

2010-03-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/15/2010 6:22 PM, Nóirín Shirley for the ApacheCon 2010 Planning Team wrote: If you'd like your project to be featured in the main conference tracks, please discuss it with your project community. A schedule is not needed at this time, but you have a coherent vision for a one day (6

Re: [VOTE] Apache Traffic Server as a TLP

2010-04-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 4/9/2010 6:54 PM, Bryan Call wrote: Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html Please cast your vote: [X] +1 to recommend Traffic Server's graduation - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-06-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/17/2010 9:06 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote: It is possible to run an incubator.staging.apache.org, syncing off a branch, and the live site off

Re: Switching incubator.apache.org to svnpubsub?

2010-06-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/17/2010 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/17/2010 9:06 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote: It is possible to run

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-21 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/21/2010 1:31 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: Chukwa has been around for a while now and from my (albeit limited) impression, pretty successful. What's the rationale for going the Incubator route rather than putting up a Board TLP

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-22 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/22/2010 2:42 AM, ant elder wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:09 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/21/2010 1:31 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: Chukwa has been around for a while now and from my (albeit limited

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-24 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/23/2010 8:12 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:45, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO we should insist on using the incubator naming for the Chukwa website/svn/MLs because I think Chukwa should just go directly to a TLP and if they have to use the incubator

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/25/2010 3:55 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 21:21, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@apache.org wrote: Is anyone in agreement with ant? Otherwise we should just move ahead and can hold a separate vote on allowing tlp resource creation at this time. If the proposers want

Re: [VOTE] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-06-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/25/2010 12:40 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: But the Incubator doesn't just say yes/no. We can refer this back to Hadoop proposing this as a TLP, and even offer the list of mentors as observers, or members of the initial PMC. The Hadoop PMC is wholly unqualified to manage Chukwa. It voted

Re: [Result][Vote] Move Chukwa to incubator

2010-07-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2010 11:19 AM, ant elder wrote: I've been suggesting it would be simpler for Chukwa to go directly to TLP but if thats not going to happen then you have my support to incubate if thats what they really want to do, and I agree a new vote might making things clearer. It seems a shame to

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/10/2010 11:25 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a

Re: HISE community needs to grow

2010-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/25/2010 8:42 PM, Rafal Rusin wrote: This is good question. As I understand procedure for nominating committers for podlings, blind request to hise-private needs to be sent and then mentors decide during voting. Existing committers don't play role here. That's why we haven't started any

Re: HISE community needs to grow

2010-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/27/2010 2:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: But you're right that those votes have no formal value. I would disagree, if there were later discussion by the graduated project (now consisting mostly of former PPMC folks), as a PMC chair I'd look back at the decision by the committee

Re: Release guidelines for python and php libraries?

2010-10-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 10/7/2010 11:40 AM, Nick Burch wrote: Hi All Does anyone happen to know of some pre-existing release guidelines for python or php libraries, either in an apache TLP or a podling? For Chemistry we've got the docs sorted for maven-based releases of the java codeline, and now we're

Re: Mystery fax received

2010-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Which would appear to come from the UK, if that gives anyone a better clue. On 10/28/2010 10:15 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: Sorry for the noise. A bit more information: Caller-ID: 441962815000 On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: Hi, We received an empty two page fax

Re: Open64 Inquiry: Apache Incubator Project

2011-01-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/31/2011 11:22 AM, Aida Rivas wrote: Hello Our Open64.net steering committee is exploring the idea of submission as an Apache Incubator Project, and one of the concerns is the Apache 2.0 license status regarding whether or not it's compatible with GPL since Open64 is currently using GPL

Re: Voting waiting period

2011-02-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/12/2011 10:57 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Phil Steitz wrote on Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 22:32:24 -0500: On 2/5/11 4:16 PM, Scott O'Bryan wrote: Bertrand, I agree. The good thing about a vibrant community is

Re: Voting waiting period

2011-02-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/15/2011 5:33 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:54 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 2/12/2011 10:57 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Phil Steitz wrote on Sat, Feb 05, 2011

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Rave project

2011-02-25 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/25/2011 4:25 AM, Troy Howard wrote: My point was: Bill made a statement, which though rather neutral and ambiguous, seemed to indicate that he (or perhaps a silent mass of others) did not think the proposal was such a good idea, due to the risks associated with a significant amount of

Re: [VOTE] Accept Howl as an Incubator Project

2011-03-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/12/2011 4:21 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: I am concerned that none of the proposed mentors were Incubator PMC members at the time of the proposal. I believe Alan Gates is now joining the Incubator PMC, which is great.

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:33 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: That would be great. There is also another project (or set of projects) that IBM and Sun/Oracle have worked on over the past few years, called the :ODF Toolkit. For example, this component was just released today:

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 12:48 PM, Nick Burch wrote: This would possibly warrant a seperate discussion though, especially if the codebase were to be destined for POI rather than a new TLP. And note, this is a decision that can be made *during* incubation, with POI folks participating on the incubating

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 1:16 PM, dsh wrote: To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again now

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
OpenOffice.org will be contributed to Apache Software Foundation by Oracle Corporation in compliance with ASF licensing and governance. Luke, could you offer some insight into affixing the Apache License v2.0 to this code base? Only ALv2 code is released by the foundation. LGPL/MPL cannot

Re: [italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 8:41 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: My questions then are absolutely pragmatic and relate—hence the to post—to issues not so far discussed: * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? * We at OOo receive lots of requests to use it for mostly good purposes. We grant these,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 10:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Other Works * You can use the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5). We only accept work under this license that is non

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:07 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:52, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: ... What am I missing here? According to the Incubation Policy [1]: A Sponsor SHALL be either: * the Board of the Apache Software Foundation; * a Top Level Project (TLP) within the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:45 AM, Greg Stein wrote: We know the *precise* list of files that we have rights to. They are explicitly specified in the software grant recorded by the Secretary. For all other files not listed: we have no special rights. Those files would be under their original license,

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people do know about it, people

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 7:12 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: This is purely my own thoughts, and there's no doubt room for improvement although I have run it past a few wise friends before posting it. But I suggest that without this clear demarcation of new-project and business-as-usual-project it will be

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 10:20 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: I on purpose leave out the discussion about (re-)licensing here, as others can comment much better about the impact of the various licenses, and how they play together, and what ASF could to with the software grant they received, may it be

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 12:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 3 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Ian Lynch wrote: Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to any other foundation. So we are where we are. We may be where we are, but we collectively have the opportunity to collaborate once

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I'm certainly not support OOo from 2 committers and 1 mentor. It would be good to see the rest of that list hashed out and know that those already on board are good with the individuals signed up (including IBM

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 1:43 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I'm certainly not support OOo from 2 committers and 1 mentor. You need to flush your cache... ~20 committers

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 7:09 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: If someone on the list from TDF is authorized to answer this (or can get such authorization), I'd appreciate an official stance on the following questions. This would help us understand what room there is for negotiation and what is not

Re: Recuse as mentor?

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 9:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Seems that some people are not happy with my outreach to the communties, or whatever... There are plenty of suggestions and posts on things that I have done wrong, or did not do, or did not due to someone's satisfaction. If people want, I will

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/4/2011 7:37 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: It is not relevant how ASF would answer these questions. You see, I think it is, and apparently other mentors do as well... I'm open to to possibility that a 6-month old open source association with a single project might have more

Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-04 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/4/2011 1:17 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Our emails may have crossed in the ether. My suggestion is that I take ownership of this question. I will state that I do not plan to proceed via this questionnaire. I missed the *what* you were taking ownership of :) Coolio, and thanks.

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
In general, I'm avoiding the messages which are entirely based on the one true license... but I think there is one interesting point to be raised here... On 6/5/2011 3:30 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: Why open source advocates at IBM would stand up for the right of software to be made proprietary

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 10:43 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the traffic on this list has settled down a lot in the last 24 hours and is now focusing in on topics more relevant to this list. But maybe that is just because it was Saturday :-)

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 5:30 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote on 06/05/2011 02:21:01 PM: This proposal raises lots of questions, but the requirements for entering the incubator are not high and so

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 5:45 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote (05-06-11 23:25) So, it does not logically follow that if a proposal at Apache is rejected that we go to TDF/LO. After all, why would you ? Purely argumentative posts aren't appropriate on this forum. Take it elsewhere.

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 6:19 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 6:04 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: We are a type-O org. Anyone can take our blood and mix it with their own. That universal donor condition places lots of restrictions on our projects, but somehow they manage to

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 8:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: With the exception of pure-BSD purists (who reject the patent clauses) AL can be mixed with any code to come out with the more restrictive of the licenses. AL + BSD == AL AL + MPL == MPL AL + GPL == GPL The following are not possible

/ignore troll [was: OpenOffice LibreOffice]

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 3:56 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: others, Free/Libre software. Nobody is suggesting that any AL work is ever Free/Libre. There is a multiplicity of Open Source thought, and we won't go into detail

Re: [OO.o] updated mailing lists in proposal

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 7:13 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated the proposal to provide more detail on the requested mailing lists. Figured it would be good to discuss here. This is what I entered into the wiki: The

Re: /ignore troll [was: OpenOffice LibreOffice]

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 8:26 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:12 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: We are now 50 posts on this list into an individual who is not a contributor to TDF/LO, and is here seeking publicity for his writing. Let's remember please to not feed

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 9:33 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: I still have no idea what you are talking about, not least since in this place we are all individuals. But I would be quite interested to understand why you have been trying so hard to stamp out all collaboration with the LibreOffice part of the OOo

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/5/2011 11:43 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: Agreed. I wish I had a clearer idea of what constitutes a good reason to reject an incubator proposal on principle, though - even just a good enough reason to reject this one. As long as there is some promise of building a community and IP / grant

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 12:47 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ASF members wish to devote considerable time and energy to this project, so exactly who the hell are you to decide what they should and shouldn't devote that time and energy to? I am just a volunteer

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the original project, Apache httpd, was commercially exploited by vendors *even prior

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 4:55 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: that being said - can OOo really be treated like each other podling? I start to feel it might not be the case. Can we change the rules while the game? Yes, we can. I would be very dissappointed if we would obey blindly to our own rules just

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 10:23 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: One question about the comment above though: Are you advocating that Apache OOo stick to source-only releases, and avoid building and delivering binaries altogether? Or is your idea that Apache OOo would deliver builds, but that they be Vanilla

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 11:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Just to clarify, only source code is released by the ASF. Yes, there may I don't believe this is true - we have to release the source, but anything we distribute

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 3:17 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote on 06/07/2011 03:43:56 PM: Apache don't think that money is evil, but we also believe that seeing our code in wide use is more important than money. OpenOffice.org is important to the Developing World,

Re: Upstream/Downstream (was OpenOffice LibreOffice)

2011-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/8/2011 10:06 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 08/06/2011 16:33, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: 1. find a proper coherence and relevance between Apache OOo LibreOffice on a technological level and on a distribution level 2. find a proper coherence with IBM's business requirements (Symphony). I

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/8/2011 11:12 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Is that a copyleft swallow or an ALv2 swallow? No definitive indicator for the latter, but if it consumes parts of the other, then it must be the former ... I believe the

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 11:02 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation +1 [binding] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [DISCUSSION] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 11:45 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: For us outsiders, can you explain who is allowed to vote and in what way, please? Everyone is welcome to vote. Binding votes include all Incubator Project Management Committee members. Non-binding votes can and do influence the opinions of committee

Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 12:04 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: (Officially I'm on the incubator PMC I believe but I have not been active .. so lets chalk this up for non-binding.) Then you just cast a binding vote. Feel free to change it, or withdraw it, but the committee roster determines which binds.

Re: Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/10/2011 2:04 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Please. Being on a PMC can't *reduce* one's rights. So, if I were on the PMC and I said +1 (intentionally non-binding), I would expect it not to be counted as binding. Then state I would vote +1 but haven't spent sufficient time reviewing this,

Re: [DISCUSSION] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/12/2011 4:03 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Not that much; * Same players. * Same importance. Really? I'm pretty certain there is 0.05% overlap between the Office Suite and Java Runtime mechanics of either Sun or IBM. They probably never even shared so much as a VP, although I could be

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:26 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members. Quorum is 3 binding +1 yes votes.

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:31 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phillip Rhodes Mondo rad. But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after some of the names in the voter list? I meant to either explain that or remove it. Oh well. :-) That was my own personal

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Bill Stoddard +1 struberg Mark Struberg -1 twilliamsTim Williams +1 upayaviraUpayavira +1 wroweWilliam A. Rowe Jr. +1 zwoopLeif Hedstrom Non-binding: +1 aaf Alexei Fedotov +0 aku Andreas Kuckartz +1 asavory Andrew Savory +1 bayard Henri

Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!

2011-07-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 10:19 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the email trail recently, I'm in favor of completing the vote. I think that there is sufficient evidence that this project has 'failed to launch' as an Apache

Re: Bluesky calls for a new mentor!

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 4:04 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: From: William A. Rowe Jr. [mailto:wr...@rowe-clan.net] We also made it clear the *author* should also commit their own code, and all authors should become committers. Each term (semester) Bluesky will get a new crop of students (committers

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 7:58 PM, Chen Liu wrote: We're preparing for the 4th version release. We need the whole July to do this work,thanks for your patience. Ok, stop. I think you are all conflating releases with what is required to continue here at the ASF. releases have not been the main issue. The

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/1/2011 8:10 PM, Chen Liu wrote: We've already known our failure in ASF. We would not find any excuses for this bed situation. But we just hope one more month to release the 4th version work. We've been advancing Bluesky project and now the 4th version is an integtared system including

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/28/2011 12:49 AM, berndf wrote: Hi everyone, this is a vote to retire the Bluesky podling. 3.5 years into incubation, the podling has not made progress in terms of becoming an Apache project. Dev is still done behind closed doors, and developers are changing frequently without

Re: launch trajectories

2011-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/5/2011 7:36 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Anyhow, what do other think? Should mentors be pushing early and often on this subject, or is it reasonable wait for, oh, 18 months and a few releases before getting pushy? 18 months and 'a few releases', with no obstacle but attracting more

Re: launch trajectories

2011-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/5/2011 7:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: I wasn't clear on the timing. They launched in Nov 2010 and have made one release. It will be 18 months in June of 2012. the question I was trying to explore was, 'how essential is it to have shown that they can attract and integrate new people

Re: Retire Olio?

2011-08-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 8/17/2011 12:37 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: The copyright item isn't signed off at https://incubator.apache.org/projects/olio.html. So would need to delete the code (assuming a successful retirement vote). Where are the mentors? Wondering how conflicted-providence IP would hit svn in the

Re: Retire Olio?

2011-08-17 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 8/17/2011 12:47 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 8/17/2011 12:37 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: The copyright item isn't signed off at https://incubator.apache.org/projects/olio.html. So would need to delete the code

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