Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...- do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP... I don't like that, IMO pTLPs have to be explicitly flagged, to make sure both users and Apache folks are aware of their immaturity. -Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque So you mean all TLPs should have status labels? Might be

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque So you mean all TLPs should have status labels? Might be useful...probatory, active, low activity, attic candidate...why not. -Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ...The Apache Members are coming in as the PMC. This is a much more serious commitment than being a Mentor. The pTLP is not an IPMC

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
It's an *option* not the only route. Working for some but not others is just fine. Ross -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 11:23 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Chris Mattmann; Jim Jagielski Subject: Re: my pTLP view I

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
TL;DR I think this is a good idea. I thought long and hard about this during the weekend and I’ve changed my mind about this; I’ll spare you my handwringing thought processes. Some things that I personally would like to see: - do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP - ComDev

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Purtell
Yes, formal votes for all decisions has been my *universal* experience on all projects I have participated in at Apache. It's like there are two (or more) different foundations, culturally. Thanks for the consideration. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Branko Čibej br...@apache.org wrote: On

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.01.2015 19:51, Andrew Purtell wrote: That hardly ever happens (it's most likely when there are problems with ​ ​ a podling's first few releases), which is why you get the impression ​ ​ that the PPMC can make binding decisions. ​Close. The PPMC membership feels they have made a

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
Purtellmailto:apurt...@apache.org Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 6:09 PM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view You are approaching this question with complete trust and faith in the Apache process, being an Apache member, but an incoming / foreign community

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
That hardly ever happens (it's most likely when there are problems with ​ ​ a podling's first few releases), which is why you get the impression ​ ​ that the PPMC can make binding decisions. ​Close. The PPMC membership feels they have made a decision that matters with equal input. Certainly on

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.01.2015 19:16, Andrew Purtell wrote: With a PPMC we invite newcomers to make votes we call binding on matters of their own project. As other people have said, PPMC members (that are not also IPMC members) do not have binding votes, neither for releases nor for inviting new committers/PPMC

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: my pTLP view!!). THAT is what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: Oh, my mistake! (smile) I confused pTLP

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Greg Stein
Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: my pTLP view!!). THAT is what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: Oh, my mistake! (smile) I confused pTLP with the Strawman proposal there for a minute. In the pTLP

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
This is *exactly* the way things work in a TLP. Yes, everyone new to the Foundation on the PPMC has a sense of equal ownership in the process. The PPMC makes a decision together as equals, then the decision is reviewed as a whole. But this is not how things would work in a pTLP, right?

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
In all of the projects I have been PMC or PPMC on, we vote on releases, new committers, and elevating committers to PMC. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: This is *exactly* the

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Greg Stein
Apache Subversion uses discussion/consensus for all of those. We throw out +1 and similar as shorthand for our preference, but we never tally, as it isn't a formal vote. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: In all of the projects I have been PMC or PPMC on,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
Yes, and I briefly confused the two, and fessed up. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: my pTLP view!!). THAT is what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
I'm not arguing with you Greg (smile), honestly, Subversion sounds like a very laid back place to participate. It's different in Bigtop, HBase, Phoenix, Whirr (of historical note), and Hadoop (secondhand observation), Hive (secondhand observation), ZooKeeper (secondhand observation) and others.

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down. Just this week, you messaged a PMC asking if they had enough actives. There is ample precedent for us detecting and working through inactivity. On Jan 23, 2015 9:46 AM, Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, I really would feel unhappy being cut out of the loop Time for my weekly musings. Sorry, no oaths and

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 23, 2015 8:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, I really would feel unhappy

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Mattmann mattm...@apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view On Jan 23, 2015 8:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. OK, I’ll accept that, but if executed correctly, the current Incubator probably doesn’t

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down,

my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
...@jagunet.com Subject: Re: my pTLP view On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, I really would feel unhappy being cut out of the loop

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: All that being said, while I will (and already did two years ago) support some experimentation with the pTLP model I still feel that an Incubator with teeth scales better. But we wouldn't know until

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
Corporation -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org javascript:;] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:34 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org javascript:; Subject: my pTLP view On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@incubator.apache.org Cc: Chris Mattmannmailto:mattm...@apache.org; Jim Jagielskimailto:j...@jagunet.com Subject: Re: my pTLP view On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for only ASF Members seems very hard. If I come to ASF

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
, 2015 2:34 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: my pTLP view On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:51 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view On Fri

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
I find the direction this discussion has gone personally disappointing, but I might be missing understanding of some crucial point. 2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members. committers can be ​ ​ chosen however the community decides. but the *project* is reviewed by ​ people with

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org javascript:;] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:34 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org javascript:; Subject: my pTLP view On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH

my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 3:21 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: As ASF

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:18 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Saturday, January 24, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross.gard...@microsoft.com'); wrote: No, the PMC is *not* the driving force. The project community is, even

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are not. OK, I'll accept

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:18 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Remember we talk rules here, and rules should be made so the reflect what we want, and I believe it is important that the community is represented in the PMC, not 100% but also not 0%. I still don't understand what's the extra bit

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: Those of us in such a new incoming community might get the commit bit but can't vote on adding committers, See my reply to Jan. C == PPMC solves this completely. or making releases. This is *exactly* what is happening

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
You are approaching this question with complete trust and faith in the Apache process, being an Apache member, but an incoming / foreign community will not have this, not universally. Take the emotion out of this, because I certainly am not being emotional here, but instead trying to evaluate this

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: ... project, they become a PPMC, a podling. Sure, the IPMC provides oversight, and the board again, but the PPMC can make binding votes on committers, releases, everything that matters - provisionally, of course, which

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
because pTLP is an *option* Sent from my Windows Phone From: Andrew Purtellmailto:apurt...@apache.org Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 6:09 PM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view You are approaching this question with complete

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. And a good manager is a Mentor ;-) Niclas

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Mattmann
+1000. My view too and with my support too. -Original Message- From: Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org, Chris Mattmann mattm...@apache.org, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com Subject: my pTLP

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Mattmannmailto:mattm...@apache.org Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 7:18 AM To: Greg Steinmailto:gst...@gmail.com; general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org; Chris Mattmannmailto:mattm...@apache.org; Jim Jagielskimailto:j...@jagunet.com Subject: Re: my pTLP view +1000. My view too

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Roman kicked off a query about next steps, with links to several wiki pages on possibilities. The IncubatorV2 page which describes a probationary TLP is nothing like I have thought about. In my mind, a pTLP looks *exactly* like

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...1. probationary text is prominent,... ...2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members... I like that proposal, it's simple and looks actionable. The only worry is what happens if the ASF Members on the PMC