Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-10-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 04 October 2007 04:56, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: http://agileskills2.org/blog/2007/09/my_thoughts_on_the_differences.html i have the impression that howard is one of those people who dominates by his charisma and energy rather than any abuse of the process Yes, and I hope he

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 9/25/07, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. +1. If we knew

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 9/26/07, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. +1 Theres more of

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-10-02 Thread Erik Abele
On 01.10.2007, at 18:43, Roland Weber wrote: Erik Abele wrote: Sure, am happy to help (as a satisfied user of both, HttpComponents and JMeter); just let me know where you'd like to see me subscribed... (I assume [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) That's great! Yes, those will be the

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-10-01 Thread Erik Abele
On 30.09.2007, at 18:17, Roland Weber wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: I don't know what to suggest, but perhaps recruiting one or more veteran ASFer, either just off the member's list or some experienced Incubator mentor, feeling this being important could just join the PMC and at least

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-10-01 Thread Roland Weber
Erik Abele wrote: Sure, am happy to help (as a satisfied user of both, HttpComponents and JMeter); just let me know where you'd like to see me subscribed... (I assume [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) That's great! Yes, those will be the interesting lists in terms of future directions

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-09-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:19, Roland Weber wrote: The new HttpComponents as well as the old HttpClient we maintain are being used by Apache projects, so coming into the Incubator is not an option for HttpComponents. I agree. And typically, TLPs receive somewhat more exposure than

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-09-30 Thread Roland Weber
Niclas Hedhman wrote: I don't know what to suggest, but perhaps recruiting one or more veteran ASFer, either just off the member's list or some experienced Incubator mentor, feeling this being important could just join the PMC and at least ensure process with 3 pairs of eye balls. Yeah,

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-09-29 Thread Roland Weber
Hello Niclas, Staying at Jakarta will buy some time, but won't last forever. If you have ideas on what to do with these small but active projects, please come over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and share your thoughts. Can't Jakarta just be revitalized as a home for small, but mature and

Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-09-28 Thread Roland Weber
Niall Pemberton wrote: Theres more of an issue IMO with projects that don't come thru the incubator, since they don't have to meet the Incubator's stringent graduation requirement. As an example - Tapestry was pushed out to a TLP from Jakarta,[...] Jakarta is disintegrating. All big projects

Re: Jakarta [was: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]]

2007-09-28 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 29 September 2007 00:03, Roland Weber wrote: Staying at Jakarta will buy some time, but won't last forever. If you have ideas on what to do with these small but active projects, please come over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and share your thoughts. Can't Jakarta just be revitalized as a

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Loughran
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Dims wrote: Niclas Hedhman asked: Do we have any examples where corporate backing has been withdrawn, and how the project was affected, whether inside or outside ASF? TSIK - Verisign folks lost interest, community did not form, project shelved. Plus Kabuki,

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-26 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 9/25/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. +1 Theres more of an issue IMO with projects that don't come thru the

Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 04:18, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: this is probably just an indication that it's time to starting thinking... +1 to all said. Do we have any examples where corporate backing has been withdrawn, and how the project was affected, whether inside or outside ASF? It

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Davanum Srinivas
TSIK - Verisign folks lost interest, community did not form, project shelved. -- dims On 9/25/07, Niclas Hedhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 04:18, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: this is probably just an indication that it's time to starting thinking... +1 to all

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Guillaume Nodet
One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. On 9/25/07, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dims wrote: Niclas Hedhman asked: Do we have any examples where corporate

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Craig L Russell
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. +1. If we knew for sure that a project would be able to attract a

RE: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. Neither do I. It merely underscores the need to make sure that there is such a sustainable community. But Niclas did ask for

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 9/25/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. Actually I think it's showing the incubator's success even if it's always

Re: Effects on corporate backing withdrawals [was: Incubator Proposal: Pig]

2007-09-25 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: One of the purpose of the incubator is to ensure that there is a sustainable developer community, so I don't see failure of incubating projects as a real problem. Neither do I...

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: [...] b) I can't say that I understand the technical merits of the proposal, and just see the headline analyzing large data sets. And I would like to know the relationship with UIMA's statement ... analyze large volumes of unstructured information... and hear whether

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Olga Natkovich wrote: Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal. High-level

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Jagielski
I am a +1 on the proposal, but I am still unclear, at this point, how Y! is going to align the open source aspects of Pig with their hiring push for Pig developers as per: http://research.yahoo.com/project/pig I guess this is more a general concern about the changing dynamics. First, of

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Olga Natkovich wrote: Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Cutting
Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the rationale behind the name, and whether there are any willingness to look for another name. It is not meant to be provocative. It is named after the animal and is not an acronym. It

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Craig L Russell
Speaking just for myself, I find the name unusual but not offensive or even provocative. The fact that you wouldn't eat an animal doesn't mean you deny its existence... Of course, I thought the language was officially called igpay atinlay. Craig On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Doug Cutting

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Eelco Hillenius
On 9/24/07, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking just for myself, I find the name unusual but not offensive or even provocative. The fact that you wouldn't eat an animal doesn't mean you deny its existence... And they make good pets in many cultures and are generally acknowledged

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: Speaking just for myself, I find the name unusual but not offensive or even provocative. The fact that you wouldn't eat an animal doesn't mean you deny its existence... +1 I find it a fun name, and the one unlikely to infringe on the

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Cutting
Jim Jagielski wrote: In other words, if the corporate support of the project or podling went away, would they stop developing and working on the codebase because they, after all, had no allegiance in the code at all? Were they, in effect, coders-for-hire? Yes, this is a known risk, perhaps the

RE: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Doug Cutting wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the rationale behind the name, and whether there are any willingness to look for another name. It is not meant to be provocative. It is named after the animal

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
Actually we would really like to modify Ruby and Python to support Pig Latin as part of the language: Ubyray and Ythonpay. We have avoided creating our own crippled scripting language, there are just too many in the world, and instead hope to take an existing language and and embedded Pig Latin

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hey, On 9/24/07, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the rationale behind the name, and whether there are any willingness to look for another name. It is not meant to be

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Carl Trieloff
We could add rules indefinitely to make just about anyone not usable... I don't have any issues with Pig. Carl. Yoav Shapira wrote: Hey, On 9/24/07, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Doug Cutting wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the rationale behind the name, and whether there are any willingness to look for another name. It is not meant to be provocative. It is named after the animal and

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Greg Stein
I don't find the name provocative either, but the connotations are a bit weird :-P On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Cutting wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 9/24/07, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: In other words, if the corporate support of the project or podling went away, would they stop developing and working on the codebase because they, after all, had no allegiance in the code at all? Were they, in

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Cutting
Olga Natkovich wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal. Thanks for all the comments. I've seen no issues raised that should block Pig from entering incubation. Unless something arises before

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 03:52, Olga Natkovich wrote: We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal. +1, but I also got a couple of observations. a) The name Pig is somewhat provocative (not kosher/halal) and I would like to hear the rationale

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-23 Thread Brian McCallister
+1 -- I'd offer to help as much as I can, but I know how little that is right now :-( Definitely support (and will probably use at least ;-) -Brian On Sep 18, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 9/18/07, Olga Natkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal +1 to the proposal, and I'd be happy to help as a mentor. -Bertrand - To

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-21 Thread Petar Tahchiev
+1 from me, too. It looks very promising. :-) On 9/21/07, Bertrand Delacretaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/07, Olga Natkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal +1 to the proposal, and I'd be happy

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-21 Thread Jim Hurley
+1 -Jim On Sep 18, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Leo Simons
On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 9/20/07, Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 20.09.2007, at 19:06, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: On 9/20/07, Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Doug Cutting
Torsten Curdt wrote: +1 Actually I would also be interested in stepping up as a mentor. Thanks, that'd be great! Please add yourself to the proposal in the wiki. Doug - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
: Incubator Proposal: Pig Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-20 Thread Torsten Curdt
Done! On 20.09.2007, at 19:46, Doug Cutting wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: +1 Actually I would also be interested in stepping up as a mentor. Thanks, that'd be great! Please add yourself to the proposal in the wiki. Doug -

Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Olga Natkovich
Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling according to the proposal.

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hey, On 9/18/07, Olga Natkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal Looks very cool to me. +1 to accepting Pig as an Incubator project. I'll

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Doug Cutting
Garrett Rooney wrote: Is there any particular reason you want this podling to be sponsored by the Incubator PMC (which is generally done for projects that intend to turn into their own top level project) rather than having it sponsored by the Lucene PMC (where Hadoop currently resides)? It

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hey, On 9/18/07, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: overlap a bit, but, to the primary folks involved, it feels like a separate community and they'd prefer to aim for a TLP. It should be clear to everyone involved, though, that part of the goal of incubation is to diversify the project's

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Lawrence Mandel
that plans to graduate and join the WS PMC. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/woden/ Lawrence Garrett Rooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/18/2007 04:02 PM Please respond to general@incubator.apache.org To general@incubator.apache.org cc Subject Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 9/18/07, Lawrence Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any particular reason you want this podling to be sponsored by the Incubator PMC (which is generally done for projects that intend to turn into their own top level project) Is this true? I thought all new projects had to go through

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 9/18/07, Olga Natkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. We would like to ask that the

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Ted Dunning
+1 as well. I would be happy to help with code contributions and user testing. Yoav Shapira-2 wrote: Hey, On 9/18/07, Olga Natkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal below. The proposal is also available on wiki at

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 9/18/07, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Rooney wrote: Is there any particular reason you want this podling to be sponsored by the Incubator PMC (which is generally done for projects that intend to turn into their own top level project) rather than having it sponsored by

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Doug Cutting
Garrett Rooney wrote: (if anything it seems like a new TLP associated with hadoop and generic distributed computing tools like pig that are built on top of hadoop seems like it would make more sense than just a pig TLP), Yes, I agree. But that's not happened yet, and the Pig folks are ready

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Doug Cutting
Yoav Shapira wrote: It should be clear to everyone involved, though, that part of the goal of incubation is to diversify the project's community so that it's not disjoint from everyone else. I hope to have a bunch of non-Yahoo people contributing to the project. Indeed. That's the primary

Re: Incubator Proposal: Pig

2007-09-18 Thread Craig L Russell
On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: Garrett Rooney wrote: (if anything it seems like a new TLP associated with hadoop and generic distributed computing tools like pig that are built on top of hadoop seems like it would make more sense than just a pig TLP), Yes, I agree. But