Re: Lack of releases with Droids

2014-08-19 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Richard Frovarp rfrov...@apache.org wrote: A lot of wind was taken out of the sails in the fights to get the IPMC votes necessary to finish a release. We had two votes, but needed

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-08-12 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: ...Including the patch below... Sorry to come in late but

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-07-16 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 Jul 2014, at 8:05, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: That's actually the part of the thread that I have a lot of interest in. Is there

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-07-11 Thread ant elder
to see what happens and from that find what sort of rule might work? ...ant On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:01 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: Right, and thats why i don't think a rule like that would be useful. I

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-07-02 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 04:23 AM, ant elder wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Hi! Sorry for a belated reply -- at first I was following Doug's rule and then I got

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-07-01 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: Hi! Sorry for a belated reply -- at first I was following Doug's rule and then I got distracted ;-) That said -- I really would like to drive us to some kind consensus (even if we have to do the vote) because the

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-06-25 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 Jun 2014, at 21:27, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: On 24 Jun 2014, at 7:24, Roman

Re: When to sign-off on Incubator reports?

2014-04-08 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: FWIW as far as I am concerned, you can 'conditionally' sign off on a report, that is, with comments, if there's things you need to say. Upayavira +1 to that. And its still over a week till the baord meeting and lots of

Re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Olingo 1.1.0 incubating (RC03)

2014-02-10 Thread ant elder
+1 Looks ok to me ...ant On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Klevenz, Stephan stephan.klev...@sap.comwrote: No progress on Olingo's release vote. Still one binding vote is missing. What else can we do to get it done? Regards, Stephan On 06.02.14 23:01, Marvin Humphrey

Re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Olingo 1.1.0 incubating (RC03)

2014-02-10 Thread ant elder
Also, why doesn't Olingo go for graduation? I had a little look around the project and don't see anything holding it up. ...ant On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:35 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Looks ok to me ...ant On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Klevenz, Stephan

Re: [VOTE] Enable Release Checklist Experiment

2013-12-16 Thread ant elder
Obviously +1 from me on doing experiments, and -1 for the silly policy update stuff. ...ant On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: Greetings, As the next step in our ongoing efforts to reform the release voting process, I propose that we run an

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-13 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: So... * Ant likes the voting rule change, but is opposed to the checklist. I'm also opposed to updating the policy document, so will

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-13 Thread ant elder
mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:18 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also opposed to updating the policy document, so will be voting against this just for that. Its just an experiment so you don't need to be making a permanent change to the policy page to try

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-13 Thread ant elder
The N word wasn't particularly helpful or constructive, sorry. I do think the policy page should be kept simple and generic though, so isn't the place to be describing this experiment. ...ant On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:39 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: Well sorry but IMHO thats

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: For a release tagged with the incubating label and disclaimer, filing bugs rather than blocking seems reasonable. I may have edited away more than you like but yes - filing bugs rather than blocking is the approach

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-10 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:34 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I know you're passionate about this Marvin but as it stands I'll be voting against this proposal. I plan to propose this as an experiment Well

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-10 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: If we deleted every release from the main Foundation distro area that had some divergence from some policy, no matter how tiny, my suspicion is that the distro area would become rather sparse. Yes quite. And

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-09 Thread ant elder
releases it would make a massive improvement to everyones experience of the Incubator. ...ant On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:55 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: All the stuff required to be checked when voting

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-09 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: ...2) Podlings should normally graduate after the first release (and we should more proactively do that) not stay to do more... I

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-06 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:38 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 December 2013 10:37, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com

Re: [PROPOSAL] Experiment: VXQuery PPMC Release Voting

2013-11-23 Thread ant elder
I'm in favour of trying this. And its just experiment remember so not a change for ever for all podlings so please people try to support it or at least not try to block it. ...ant On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: The possibility of an experiment

Re: Release vote thresholds

2013-11-23 Thread ant elder
Do these sort of experiments really need consensus? The Incubator PMC is so big and diverse now it makes getting consensus on some things all most impossible, after the change a little while back we don't even need consensus for voting in new Incubator PMC members now. ...ant On Sat, Nov 23,

Re: Release vote thresholds

2013-11-22 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:33 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: I think this is getting too hung up on vetting releases

Re: Populating the initial PPMC

2013-11-21 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: Still, this isn't the hill I want to die on. I think that starting with an empty PPMC is good policy for a variety of reasons, but I'm willing to be flexible for the sake of building consensus on how to address the

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-20 Thread ant elder
, at 4:34 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: The reason it might be dis-empowering is that currently one of the main roles of the PPMC is voting in new committers so if the PPMC is initially just the mentors then the other podling members wont be involved in that. It might still

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-19 Thread ant elder
The reason it might be dis-empowering is that currently one of the main roles of the PPMC is voting in new committers so if the PPMC is initially just the mentors then the other podling members wont be involved in that. It might still be worth trying the approach as an experiment if a willing

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-18 Thread ant elder
Hi Benson, On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: If the board were offering us another structural approach, this would be a different discussion. But, unless I've gotten lost in the torrent of email, the board isn't offering an alternative. Yep you

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-15 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:08 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: What i'd like to try is more similar to the pTLP approach previously talked about. So take some existing podling, eg Stratos and/or VXQuery

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-14 Thread ant elder
. Lets give it a try. What do you say? ...ant On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Suresh Marru sma...@apache.org wrote: On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:58 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So, we _can_ let podlings

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-12 Thread ant elder
of the full committee, not any one member of it. On Nov 10, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:04 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that they don't require at least three binding

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
0.2 passes after more than 72 hours with 3 +1 votes of IPMC members (Jochen Wiedmann, Ant Elder, Marvin Humphrey) and no 0 or -1 votes. The vote thread on vxquery-dev can be found here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201310.mbox/%3C511917E5-9FC9-4B6C-9DE3

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that they don't require at least three binding votes, but instead make it at least three votes only one of which must be binding. That would mean there would still be the element of oversight that a mentor vote gives but avoids all the

Fwd: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
to be a decision of the full committee, not any one member of it. On Nov 10, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:04 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that they don't require at least

Re: [IMO] There are no Incubator issues

2013-11-08 Thread ant elder
Ha ha ha ha. Does the same also apply to maintaining the records, for clutch, the vote monitoring and other tools, signing reports, writing reports for that matter, and all the other aspects of the incubator - all of that might get done eventually one day if people can ever find the time, don't

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-07 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Nov 7, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: The Incubator has a fundamental structural flaw: it lacks a mechanism to reward merit earned by individual podling contributors. Idea: Allow for

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)

2013-10-25 Thread ant elder
: HI Ant, On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:03 AM, ant elder wrote: Dave/Vinayak, My understanding is that the ODC-BY license only needs to be run by ASF legal if there is a concern about it, I've read the license when voting on this and AFAICT its fine (and the package is not being modified so

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)

2013-10-11 Thread ant elder
/**dist/release/incubator/**vxquery/KEYShttps://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS The vote on vxquery-dev passed [1] with +1 (binding) Vinayak Borkar Cezar Andrei Jochen Wiedmann (IPMC) Ant Elder (IPMC) -1 none Please vote [ ] +1 release this package as apache

Re: VXQuery needs some mentoring

2013-09-25 Thread ant elder
Hi Vinayak, I offered to help mentor if necessary when VXQuery came up a few weeks ago so i can help with this. I'll go have a look at whats going on and help. ...ant On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Vinayak Borkar vinay...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Incubator, The VXQuery podling is

Re: binary release artifacts

2013-09-24 Thread ant elder
I closed LEGAL-178 with the resolution Not A Problem, which is quite different to a resolution of Fixed or Resolved or Answered. From my investigation, things like the text of the AL and various posts in the mailing lists over the years answered the question to my satisfaction. I doubt everyone

Re: [VOTE] Apache Chukwa graduation

2013-09-21 Thread ant elder
of the Apache Chukwa Project: * Ahmed Fathalla (afathalla) * Alan D. Cabrera (adc) * Ant Elder (antelder) * Ariel Rabkin (asrabkin) * Bill Graham (billgraham) * Eric Yang (eyang) * Grace Huang (grace.huang) * Ivy Tang (ivytang

Re: binary release artifacts

2013-09-19 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: As Tim and Luciano have already stated, artifacts which were not voted on by the IPMC cannot continue to be distributed though our channels. Is that actually the case? AIUI the ASF only releases open source code.

Re: binary release artifacts

2013-09-16 Thread ant elder
:19 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: Tim, one of the things we're trying to teach podlings is how to handle disputes and resolve problems in a happy respectful manner. You've out of the blue come on to their dev list without introducing yourself demanding that something that happened

Re: binary release artifacts

2013-09-15 Thread ant elder
william...@gmail.com wrote: Moving this[1] to general@ On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:55 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Tim Williams william...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, I've included references inline for your convenience. I'll once again [strongly

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
...@rectangular.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Crossley cross...@apache.org wrote: ant elder wrote: Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
it in less than a day, so all credit to them for keeping on trying. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:46 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for doing that so promptly Till. ...ant On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Till Westmann t...@westmann.org wrote: Just for the record: The website

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
to be a mentor to help try to keep them alive if they want to keep trying. ...ant On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: To me VXQuery looks like an example of a project being let down

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-03 Thread ant elder
Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other projects and podlings have done something similar anyway. Is it that the website describes it as

Re: Podling new committer votes

2013-08-06 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I've been away so a little slow in finishing this but i have just now made an update to the guide, see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view

Re: Podling new committer votes

2013-07-30 Thread ant elder
I've been away so a little slow in finishing this but i have just now made an update to the guide, see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revisionrevision=1508433 This does not include anything yet for the request from Bertrand to still require at least one mentor vote but instead goes more

Re: Podling new committer votes

2013-07-12 Thread ant elder
process they deem appropriate. Case in point is the Subversion process, which essentially promotes new committers through lazy consensus alone. IOW +1 to roll back to pre-May 1, 2007. - Original Message - From: ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc

Re: Podling new committer votes

2013-07-10 Thread ant elder
Ok seems everyone so far is ok with changing this, so how far can this go... In the experiment Joe commented ...basically rolling back the clock to May 1, 2007 on guides/ppmc.html which is this change http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/public/trunk/content/guides/ppmc.xml?r1=517024r2=542806

Podling new committer votes

2013-07-09 Thread ant elder
Looking at the Voting in a new committer section at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html i see that its been updated since i last looked and now says the Incubator PMC should be notified twice when a podling is voting in a new committer, once at the start of the vote and again with the

Re: [VOTE] recommend Apache JSPWiki for graduating out of the incubator

2013-07-07 Thread ant elder
+1 ...ant On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez juanpa...@apache.org wrote: Hi all, The Apache JSPWiki podling is a project which holds a feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine, built around the standard Java EE components Java, Servlets, and Java Server

Re: community graduation vote at jspwiki-dev

2013-07-04 Thread ant elder
Yay, well done! Almost 6 years, must be well incubated by now. ...ant On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez juanpablo.san...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, a quick email to inform that we've just started the community graduation vote at jspwiki-dev :-) br, juan

Re: Stratos proposal: is it possible to add another initial committer?

2013-06-19 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.comwrote: He said majority, not everybody ant. Try a little harder to understand the written words instead of needing to interject your dissonant 2 cents and things will improve around here. Don't be so abrasive Joe, I'm a

Re: Stratos proposal: is it possible to add another initial committer?

2013-06-18 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: It seems clear that the majority of IPMC members believe this change on a vote in progress is not acceptable. Don't assume its that clear, i think at least some agree with you that this is just ISSUE3 and kept

Re: [VOTE] Accept Stratos proposal as an incubating project

2013-06-17 Thread ant elder
+1 ...ant On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: I would like to invite the IPMC vote to accept the Stratos proposal [1]. I want to clarify that this vote is for the Stratos project to enter the incubator as a standard podling under the existing

Re: [DISCUSS] Accept Stratos as an Apache Incubation Project

2013-06-14 Thread ant elder
I'm also +1 (and excited!) on trying out this as a probationary TLPs, and with doing that using the approaches outlined by Ross and others in other emails on this thread (which is basically having a vote now to accept this as a podling so we can get started and then working up a probationary TLP

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator

2013-06-05 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (398J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hey Alan, Great question if there is an official policy here. My read is that no it's based on tribal knowledge and informal assumption. There is an official policy which is documented on the

Re: svn commit: r1488735 - in /incubator/public/trunk/tools: NOTICE.txt requirements.txt setup.py src/asf/utils/ src/asf/utils/__init__.py src/asf/utils/config.py src/asf/utils/file.py tests/test_conf

2013-06-04 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Simple as that. If only. This is the old what goes in the NOTICE file debate that has probably caused more emails and confusion than any other topic here. My understanding of the current thinking on this is to only include

Re: svn commit: r1488735 - in /incubator/public/trunk/tools: NOTICE.txt requirements.txt setup.py src/asf/utils/ src/asf/utils/__init__.py src/asf/utils/config.py src/asf/utils/file.py tests/test_conf

2013-06-04 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 4, 2013 4:22 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Simple as that. If only. This is the old what goes in the NOTICE file debate that has

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-33) Establish whether Apache JSPWiki is a suitable name

2013-06-03 Thread ant elder (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-33?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13672933#comment-13672933 ] ant elder commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-33: The Incubator podling

Re: What's the difference between dormant and retired?

2013-05-30 Thread ant elder
that. ...ant On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:36 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Mark and John, the terms mean different things, and the term retired is reasonably well understood now and mentioned

Re: Podling not Poddling

2013-05-30 Thread ant elder
I think a lot of the poddling occurrences might be down to me and my atrocious spelling and getting it wrong so often i don't even notice it looks wrong now. I'll try to proofread more closely. ...ant On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I keep seeing the word

Re: [PROPOSAL] MetaModel for the Apache Incubator

2013-05-29 Thread ant elder
From the subject line I thought this was going to be another attempt to sort out the incubator :-/ ...ant On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.comwrote: Dear ASF members, We would like to propose MetaModel for the incubator. Matt Franklin will be the

Re: What's the difference between dormant and retired?

2013-05-29 Thread ant elder
I agree with Mark and John, the terms mean different things, and the term retired is reasonably well understood now and mentioned in various places in the Incubator documentation so wouldn't it be better to keep it as is? Are there really any dormant poddlings? If so probably they are really

Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache BeanShell in the Incubator

2013-05-25 Thread ant elder
Its good that we can help keep BeanShell going by bring it to the ASF, but my vote here is -1. There was some discussion on this proposal back in April and one of the last emails there was this one saying: If the intention is to have Beanshell become a part of Apache Commons then the IPMC feels

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache JSPWiki 2.9.1-incubating released

2013-05-17 Thread ant elder
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Martin Cooper mart...@apache.org wrote: I'll be the first to admit that I haven't been following along with the progress of this project at all, but I happened to notice that, according to the incubator projects page, this project has been in incubation for

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: If this was a software project, and the appropriate answer was unknown, they you might apply a lean startup approach, and figure out how to run tests to see which way works best. Given the number of incubating projects,

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
at 2:39 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: If this was a software project, and the appropriate answer was unknown, they you might apply a lean startup approach, and figure out how to run tests to see which way works

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: If you think it's clear in either direction, call a VOTE. I think that's the only demonstrable way to suggest what's clear and what's not. Please see several emails from Greg and others on the board@ list recently

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread ant elder
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Discussions on Ross' and Chris' proposals ground to a halt. In my view, there are real issues that drove those discussions, even if those

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-07 Thread ant elder
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Discussions on Ross' and Chris' proposals ground to a halt. In my view, there are real issues that drove those discussions, even if those discussions drove some of us to distraction. A bit before the wiki crashed,

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Marmotta 3.0.0-incubating (RC8)

2013-04-24 Thread ant elder
Come back after being away its a bit hard to tell where this vote is but i think its still open and you're wondering what to do. +1 on the release from me. I see the issues being discussed about the legal docs and i see on you're addressing them as much as you can workout and nothing looks like

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 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)

2013-04-03 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: As far as I understand your comment, Ant, you mean to say that he problem is that there is too much variation in opinion and approach. (Primarily, I understand, in relation to releases.) Hi Noah, i suggested that one of

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

2013-04-03 Thread ant elder
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 look through it, it seems like the problem is that it is incomplete and confusing. It's hardly a wonder people disagree. ;) (This is just a bit of

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

2013-04-02 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Chris, What I was trying to do with this particular thread is to identify the problems the incubator has before deciding on solutions. If we can get a common agreement on that, specific solutions will be much easier for us

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-30 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: As Doug points out, votes are structured away from the status quo- we don't ever vote to continue on with previously agreed to issues just to circumvent the voting process. Ok thanks Joe and Doug. So to be

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-30 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Matthias Friedrich m...@mafr.de wrote: As someone who is relatively new to the ASF and who's first behind the scenes contact with Apache was the incubation process, I can tell that this is absolutely true. Podlings find themselves in a kafkaesque world where

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-28 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: It appears to me that we have a consensus here on using a majority system with a 3/4 supermajority. I'd like to establish the existence of this consensus with a minimum of fuss, and begin to stop wasting everyone's

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-28 Thread ant elder
the window. Please stop with all of these exaggerations and try to self-moderate- half of the volume in these debates is all you talking to yourself. On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:18 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-28 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Joseph Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: No more so than they already had. It does Joe, let me give you a more clear example. Lets imagine i've done something that you deem shows i'm a terrible incubator mentor, and its not the first time. There's a big

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

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 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

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-25 Thread ant elder
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, following a thread on private@, I would like to bring the discussion on how we vote on nominated IPMC members. We had the case were one person was nominated and received three +1. Another voter had concerns

Re: Identifying and removing inactive mentors

2013-03-25 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Matthias Friedrich m...@mafr.de wrote: On Monday, 2013-03-25, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: [...] IMO it's the podlings who need to make sure they have enough mentor energy available

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-25 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Now, you might argue that mentoring is a lot more than voting, but we could create another bottleneck in getting release votes through, requiring votes from incubator PMC members who are not particularly focused on the

Re: [INVALID][RESULT][VOTE] Accept MRQL into the Incubator

2013-03-21 Thread ant elder
Please find that the MRQL mailing lists have been created and are ready to be used for further discussion: d...@mrql.incubator.apache.org u...@mrql.incubator.apache.org priv...@mrql.incubator.apache.org Would everyone named on the proposal please go subscribe to them, and happy MRQL'ing.

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Accept MRQL into the Incubator

2013-03-18 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.orgwrote: We're also missing Ant Elder from the Nominated

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Accept MRQL into the Incubator

2013-03-17 Thread ant elder
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Edward J. Yoon edwardy...@apache.orgwrote: The required action has been taken, so let me close this thread again. I apologize again for my mistake. The Sponsors are changed as following: == Champion == * Alex Karasulu akarasulu AT apache DOT org ==

Re: [INVALID][RESULT][VOTE] Accept MRQL into the Incubator

2013-03-15 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.orgwrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Edward J. Yoon edwardy...@apache.org wrote: could you please close the Create MRQL tasks in the Infra Jira until the situation has been cleared up. Whenever this all has been

Re: [INVALID][RESULT][VOTE] Accept MRQL into the Incubator

2013-03-15 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:01 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Edward J. Yoon edwardy

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of EasyAnt into Ant

2013-03-12 Thread ant elder
+1 ...ant On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Nicolas Lalevée nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org wrote: Hi, The EasyAnt community would like to graduate as an subproject of Ant. The Ant PMC has just accepted:

Re: [VOTE] Release of EasyAnt 0.9-incubating

2013-02-18 Thread ant elder
I've already voted +1 for this on the easyant list but +1 again to bring the vote up again. Still need one more vote please anyone... ...ant On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Nicolas Lalevée nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org wrote: This is a call for a vote of the release of EasyAnt

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

2012-11-28 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

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