Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Curator as an Apache Top Level Project

2013-08-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jordan Zimmerman wrote: > This message is opening a VOTE to graduate the Apache Curator podling from > the Apache Incubator as an Apache Top Level Project. > > Apache Curator entered the Incubator in April of 2013. We have made > significant progress with the pr

Re: [VOTE] Accept Storm into the Incubator

2013-09-14 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > Discussion about the Storm proposal has subsided, issues raised now > seemingly resolved. > > I'd like to call a vote to accept Storm as a new Incubator podling. > > The proposal is included below and is also at: > > https://wiki.apache.org

Re: Is there a need for a "Assisten mentor"?

2013-09-20 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi at all > > After now nearly two years at Apache, I would like to come back to incubator > and help new projects. I don't ask for a mentor roul, but if a mentor would > give me a hand and then I would be happy to join a project as a "assi

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (RC6)

2013-09-22 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Patrick Wendell wrote: > Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark > (incubating) version 0.8.0. This will be the first incubator release for > Spark in Apache. > > The tag to be voted on is v0.8.0-incubating (commit 3b85a85): > https://git-w

Re: Apache project bylaws

2013-10-01 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > At Wicket we didn't bother to pick bylaws and from what I have seen in > other communities we are better for it. A huge +1 to that! Apache Bigtop falls into the very same category -- we'll get real bylaws when we really need them (hopefull

Re: Apache project bylaws

2013-10-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, sebb wrote: >> That's a really interesting perspective: governance rules as code, that can >> be unit tested. Heh I like that. > > And how does one test that code is working correctly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc 30 years and going strong! Thanks, Roman. P.

Re: [VOTE] Retire the Tashi podling

2013-10-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greets, > > As discussed previously on general@incubator[1], the Tashi community has voted > to retire from the Incubator. Following the retirement guide[2], it is now > time for an IPMC vote ratifying their decision. > > [ ] +1 Retire the

Re: Too many late reports

2013-10-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Lots of late or missing reports this month! I've noticed the same thing as well. > Since then, Chukwa and Helix filed their reports late Saturday; Spark filed a > report today -- *after* Dave Fisher had filed his shepherding commentar

Re: [PROPOSAL] Weave for Apache Incubator

2013-11-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Have you guys considered contributing this code directly to Hadoop? >From what you are describing it sounds like a developer friendly library wrapped around YARN (along the lines of kitten: https://github.com/jwills/kitten). Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Neumann wrot

Re: [PROPOSAL] Weave for Apache Incubator

2013-11-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > I think Twill fits well with what Weave project trying to do with > Hadoop and still in the spirit of the original weave name. Indeed! Twill is a pretty good name for a project like this. Thanks, Roman. -

Re: [VOTE] Accept Twill for Incubation

2013-11-07 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > The discussion about the Weave proposal has calmed. As the outcome of the > discussion, we have chosen a new name for the project, Twill. I would like > to call a vote for Twill to become an incubated project. > > The proposal is pasted belo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Phoenix for Incubation

2013-11-17 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:43 PM, James Taylor wrote: > Hi All, > > We're pleased to share a draft ASF incubation proposal for Phoenix, a > SQL layer over HBase, initially developed at Salesforce.com and > subsequently open sourced on github > (https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix). Instead of u

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Ambari from Apache Incubator

2013-11-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Yusaku Sako wrote: > This is a call for vote to graduate Ambari from Apache Incubator. > > The Apache Ambari project has been incubating since August 2011. > We have made significant progress with the project during the two years > of Incubation, adding 27 committe

Re: [VOTE] Phoenix for incubator project

2013-12-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Stack wrote: > Discussion of the Phoenix proposal has settled since its original > posting on November 7th. Feedback has been incorporated. > > Let us now move to a vote. > > Should Phoenix become an Apache incubator project? > > [] +1 Accept Phoenix into the Incub

Re: Release Verification Checklist

2013-12-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: >> >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/votes/$PODLING/$RC >> ... > > Added to a new "usage proposal" section at > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Relea

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-17 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
+1 (binding) from me as well. That said, I'd expect the issues identified around jar inclusion to be blocking for 0.9 (do we have a blocker JIRA filed?). There's also a few issues around the build but I need to spend time and file JIRAs myself. Will do in time for 0.9 Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Dec

Re: Report Manager for December

2013-12-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Marvin, if you're still looking for a volunteer for this, I'd love to give it a try. Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greets, > > I'm looking for a volunteer to be the Incubator's "Report Manager" for our > December Board report. > > Many aspects of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] DataFu for Incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, sebb wrote: > On 18 December 2013 22:49, Matthew Hayes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to share our draft ASF incubation proposal for DataFu, a >> library that > makes it easier to solve data problems in Hadoop and high level languages > based on it. > > I

January 2014 Incubator report timeline

2013-12-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
January 2014 Incubator report timeline: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2014 Wed January 01 -- Podling reports due by end of day Sun January 05 -- Shepherd reviews due by end of day Sun January 05 -- Summary due by end of day Tue January 07 -- Mentor signoff due by end

Re: [VOTE] Accept DataFu into the Incubator

2013-12-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Jakob Homan wrote: > Incubator- > > Following the discussion earlier, I'm calling a vote to accept DataFu as a > new Incubator project. > > The proposal draft is available at: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DataFuProposal, and is also included > below. > > Vo

Shepherding January 2014

2014-01-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
stian Grobmeier (grobmeier): the podling is just getting started ---- MetaModel Roman Shaposhnik (rvs): In general project seem to be on the right track with a healthy amount of community interaction happening over the mailing list and a strong desire to do

Re: Shepherding January 2014

2014-01-07 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Henry Saputra wrote: > HI Roman, > > I am one of the mentors for MetaModel podling. > The initial discussion about bylaws come from me since I had some bad > experience with some projects so I brought up the topic. > But per recommendations by other mentors in the p

Re: Shepherding January 2014

2014-01-07 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
gt; a lot of previous involvement by new committers with Apache Mesos in some > form or another. Overall project is off to a great start and no current > issues as Justin mentioned. > > -Jake > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> ---

Re: Following up after missed reports

2014-01-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Ah! Makes sense. I'm traveling right now, but will fix it in ~24 hours ;-) Thanks, Roman. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:45 PM, wrote: > >> Log: >> Remove expired 'monthly' attributes. > >> URL: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/pu

Re: Following up after missed reports

2014-01-20 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
The problem should be fixed now. Thanks, Roman AKA clumsy guy ;-) On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Ah! Makes sense. I'm traveling right now, but will fix it in ~24 hours ;-) > > Thanks, > Roman. > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Marvin Humphr

Re: Report Manager for February

2014-01-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Also, I'd be more than happy to handhold. Marvin did a great job showing me the ropes so I'm more than happy to return the favor ;-) Thanks, Roman. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Henry Saputra > wrote: >> Hi Marvin, is there any wiki

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Spark from the Incubator

2014-02-01 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Matei Zaharia wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Apache Spark community has VOTEd to graduate from the Apache incubator > (vote thread: http://s.apache.org/kq, discussion thread: > http://s.apache.org/aEQ). > > I'm now calling an official IPMC VOTE to make this happen as

Re: Change of IPMC Chair

2014-02-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > Congratulations to Roman Shaposhnik! The Incubator PMC has voted to recommend > Roman as our next Chair in a resolution to the Board next week. > > My wholehearted thanks go out to everyone who has contri

Re: Shepherding February 2014

2014-02-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Apologies: for some reason I never clicked on the save on the wiki yesterday. It is done now. The only commend I had was on HDT -- I wanted to reply to Dave Fisher's concerns -- but I'll wait for the summary to appear to chime in. Thanks, Roman. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Marvin Humphrey

Re: Shepherding February 2014

2014-02-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> Sorry my limited Apache time was taken yesterday by catching up "cadence" >> issues. > > Yes, I know what you mean. ;) > >> I checked DataFu and it is getting started in fine shape.

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Spark from the Incubator

2014-02-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is a new VOTE to decide if Apache Spark should graduate > from the Incubator. Please VOTE on the resolution pasted below > the ballot. I'll leave this VOTE open for at least 72 hours. > > Thanks! > > [ ] +1 Graduate Apa

Re: Report Manager for March

2014-02-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greets, > > As part of the effort to spread the tasks of the IPMC around more evenly and > to support our new Chair, I volunteer to serve as the Incubator's Report > Manager for March. > > Roman, I'd like to handle most mechanical tasks, wh

Re: [DISCUSS] Pros and Cons of incubation requiring 2 mailing list migrations

2014-02-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Andy Konwinski wrote: > When a mature open source project enters the incubator, it has to move > mailing lists from its existing solution (which for Spark was Google > Groups) to the apache incubator lists. This was a painful move for Spark > since many devs found

Re: Hoya Proposal

2014-03-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Steve, I am just wondering: are you in a position to move forward with the proposal at this point or are you still mulling over the feedback? Thanks, Roman. On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > I'm starting to put together the incubation proposal for Hoya: a tool to > dynamic

An idea on increasing scalability out the Incubator reporting tasks

2014-03-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! looking at the March incubator report template it seems that we have a quite a few reports still pending. Somehow this got me thinking that perhaps it may be a useful idea to rely on shepherds to help drive report creation by engaging with the poddling communities earlier. After all, they hav

Re: An idea on increasing scalability out the Incubator reporting tasks

2014-03-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:40 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > Roman, > > Actually, from what I've seen on a shepherd's point of view, podlings > wake up when the shepherds poke around. I've gotten mixed responses > from podlings when asking about status, sometimes a quick response and > others a very sl

Npanday incubator report is missing two times in a row

2014-03-09 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! I'd like to call on mentors of the Apache Npanday (incubating) to clarify the situation with podling reports missing two times in a row. A cursory review of the project's activity suggests a community of one: Brett Porter. This is troubling. Any insight into how the project is doing will be g

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Justin Mclean joins the IPMC

2014-03-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greets, > > The Incubator PMC has voted to offer membership to Justin Mclean > and he has accepted. > > Justin came to the Incubator via Flex and is an active member of the Apache > Flex PMC. We're glad that he has returned! > > Welcome, J

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Allura from the Incubator

2014-03-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
I think what would help to make it into a stronger vote would be a few more IPMC folks looking into the status of the Allura community. I can volunteer to take a closer look at the community today to shape up my own opinion and cast the vote appropriately. If there's anybody else on IPMC who can

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Allura from the Incubator

2014-03-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > I think what would help to make it into a stronger vote > would be a few more IPMC folks looking > into the status of the Allura community. > > I can volunteer to take a closer look at the community today > to shape up my own o

[ANNOUNCE] Rob Weir joins the IPMC

2014-03-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! The Incubator PMC has voted to offer membership to Rob Weir and he has accepted. Rob came to the Incubator via one of the biggest and most well recognized podlings we've ever had: Apache OpenOffice. He has been a stalwart member of the OpenOffice PMC and a valuable contributor to the project.

Re: help needed

2014-03-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi Subhasis! if you're interested in bringing your project to ASF you'd have to go through the process of incubation. This process is not so much about demonstrating the merits of your idea, but it is rather about exploring how vibrant of a community you can build around your project. The first s

Re: Joining the Incubator PMC

2014-03-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi Sean! Thanks for volunteering! I'll do what is needed. Also, I'd really appreciate if you could consider taking onto the shepherding assignments. Please let me know. Thanks, Roman. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > Hello all, I've been invited to help mentor the Stratosph

Re: Report Manager for April

2014-03-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Greets, > > We haven't recruited a Report Manager for April yet, and many > potential candidates will be occupied with preparations for ApacheCon. > I'll volunteer for another month. Roman, how about we divide tasks > the same as last tim

Re: Flex IP Clearance

2014-03-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! Since I haven't seen much progress on this one, I'm wondering whether pinging legal would be a reasonable next step. Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > Despite having the best mentors one could hope for, it appears the Apache > Flex PMC missed one thing, whi

[DISCUSS] Proposal for a Black Duck POC

2014-03-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! a few recent discussions around IP management in the Incubator have lead to an interesting dialogue between the fine folks from Black Duck Software and yours truly. The main ides here is that, perhaps, Black Duck services can be as helpful to the open source communities as the ones provided b

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a Black Duck POC

2014-04-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > I'd like to help however I can. Great! If folks can suggest a few projects for us to consider for POC -- that'll be great. If I don't see any suggestions -- I'll nominate things I'm familiar with (Hadoop ecosystem, naturally ;-)). Thanks,

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a Black Duck POC

2014-04-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Rob Vesse wrote: > Roman > > Black Duck software certainly have a useful platform though it would be > useful to know what they are considering using for the POC. I think it would be fair to say that they are looking at us to set requirements for this POC. This do

[ANNOUNCE] Sean R. Owen joins the IPMC

2014-04-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! an ASF member Sean R. Owen has volunteered recently to join the Incubator PMC. Sean comes to the Incubator from Apache Mahout and brings with him a lot of experience in software development and community guidance. Welcome, Sean! Great to have you on board! Thanks, Roman. --

Re: Joining the Incubator PMC

2014-04-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Sean, your addition to IPMC has been completed and announced a few days ago. Are you saying something's not quite working for you? Thanks, Roman. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Sebastian Schelter wrote: > AFAIR any ASF member should be able to join the Incubator PMC without any > problems. Ma

Re: Celix podling report

2014-04-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Pepijn Noltes wrote: > Hi All, > > Last week there was a deadline for the podlings report for incubator PMC > report for April 2014. We (Celix) forgot to create our report. > I was just about to begin writing the report, but saw that the wiki page > [1] already sche

Re: [VOTE] Accept Stratosphere into the incubator

2014-04-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Alan Gates wrote: > Based on the results of the discussion thread > (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201403.mbox/%3CCE562EE9-968C-420E-A719-8C08CDAC99F8%40hortonworks.com%3E > in particular notice the discussion on name change in the d

[ANNOUNCE] Ashutosh Chauhan joins the IPMC

2014-04-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! an ASF member Ashutosh Chauhan has volunteered recently to join the Incubator PMC. Ashutosh comes to the Incubator with a background in an impressive variety of Hadoop ecosystem projects: Datafu, HCatalog, Hive, Pig, and Tez. An experience that should have prepared him well for helping future

Re: Slider Proposal

2014-04-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: >> > The reason I ask is I'm wondering how Slider differentiates from projects >> > like Apache Twill or Apache Bigtop that are already existing vehicles for >> > achieving the aims discussed in the Slider proposal. >> >> >> Twill: handles al

Re: Report Manager for April

2014-04-22 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:21 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >> So - now that we're almost there, I'm assuming somehow I have to run the >> script that assigns people to podlings, right? > > Thanks for staying on top of things! > > Technically, p

Re: [VOTE] Accept Slider into the incubator

2014-04-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Not necessarily in this case (I do not know), sometimes I wonder if > incubation proposals having significant overlap with existing projects are > simply a shorter path to getting up and running on the desired objectives > instead of joinin

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Accept Slider into the incubator

2014-04-28 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Henry Saputra wrote: > Congrats and welcome to ASF incubator guys! Indeed! Best of luck growing your community and project! Thanks, Roman. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubato

Konstantin Boudnik joins Incubator Shepherds

2014-04-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! just wanted to say thank to Cos for pitching in as a shepherd for this report cycle. For now, he'll take over the shepherding duties that I used to be responsible for, but hopefully he'll like it so much that there will be more to come ;-) Thanks, Roman. -

Re: [PROPOSAL] Optiq

2014-05-01 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > One could imagine as part of the case for incubation and graduation both an > articulation of the project's place in the larger ecosystem, similar to how > academic papers customarily place their work and novel findings within the > larger fi

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Phoenix from the Incubator

2014-05-01 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:44 PM, James Taylor wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The Apache Phoenix podling has has discussed and voted to graduate from the > incubator with 22 +1 votes, 5 of which were IPMC vote [1]. We've made three > releases, increased our contributor and committer list [2], and have

Re: [PROPOSAL] Optiq

2014-05-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > All that I suggest is that candidate Apache projects articulate how they > differ from related projects, and that we consider the strength of this > argument when evaluating the long term viability of the effort and > community. It would be

Status of NPanday

2014-05-15 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! after observing NPanday for quite a few month I am now very concerned about the state of this podling. It consistently misses reporting deadlines and even when reports arrive they don't seem to be signed off by a mentor. On top of that, the development activity seems to be quite low. I'm goin

Re: [PROPOSAL] Parquet

2014-05-16 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! proposal looks good to me and I am very much looking for a voting thread. One small request, since I plan to spend a fair amount of time on Parquet anyway, would you guys be ok with adding me as an extra mentor so I can help with that aspect of the project as well? Thanks, Roman. P.S. Plus

Re: Status of NPanday

2014-05-17 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Mohammad Noureldin wrote: > Hi > >I agree with Henry. There is no need to go the board IMO, even if there > is no active mentor anymore I would suggest someone from the IPMC (maybe > Romain) check this with the project's team and see how they want to > progres

Re: [VOTE] Accept Parquet into the incubator

2014-05-19 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Chris Aniszczyk wrote: > [ ] +1 Accept Parquet into the Incubator > [ ] +0 Indifferent to the acceptance of Parquet > [ ] -1 Do not accept Parquet because ... +1 (binding) Thanks, Roman. - To un

Re: Anyone can be a shepherd

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
FWIW: I really believe anybody can be a shepherd. I don't think the mechanical issue should prevent folks from volunteering. In fact, I don't even think this is much of an issue at all. As I see the process: 1. volunteer on general@ to be a shepherd 2. somebody from IPMC adds you 3. y

Call for Report Manager for June

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! John has been doing a splendid work helping out as a report manager. I really hope he can help along a few more times. That said, if there's anybody else who would want to through his or her hat in the ring and help out with the report -- please let us know by Monday. Thanks, Roman.

Re: June 2014 Incubator Report Timeline

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:38 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > Roman Shaposhnik Drill Konstantin Boudnik has gracefully agreed to step in and help me this time again. He'll update the wiki accordingly soon. Thanks, Roman.

[ANNOUNCE] John D. Ament joins the IPMC

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! The Apache Incubator PMC has VOTEd to add John D. Ament to our ranks. Welcome, John! Great to have you on board! Not that you need any introduction after your massive involvement with Incubator report, still feel free to let us know a surprising thing or two about yourself ;-) Thanks, Roman

Re: Reports needing shepherd attention

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Looks like I've never sent this one out. Moving this to general@incubator from board@ On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > On 22 May 2014, at 3:26 am, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Brett Porter wrote: >>> AB. Apache

Re: Reports needing shepherd attention

2014-05-31 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Regardless, I guess my real question is this: if a podling feels that they >> need to achieve a certain milestone in software completeness before >> they can confidently graduate, are we really in a position to push >> them out of the incub

Re: [VOTE] fleece as new incubator project

2014-06-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > Following the discussion earlier, I'm calling a vote to accept Fleece as a > new Incubator project. > > The proposal draft is available at: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Fleece, and is also included below. > > Vote is open for a

Re: Call for Report Manager for June

2014-06-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > PS: I'm enjoying this Sunday Evening Report Sprint. :) This is nothing compared to how much I enjoy it ;-) But seriously -- you guys do all the heavilifting now. If it continues that way IPMC Chair will turn into the cushiest job ever! (kn

Re: Board Report Reminder

2014-06-09 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
yup. lets just go ahead and add it. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > I'll leave it to others to weigh in, but I'm fine with adding an > approved Drill report at this point in time. > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> The Drill group just produced a rep

Do we still need release metrics as part of the report?

2014-06-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! first of all, let me start with, once again, expressing tremendous gratitude to our report managers: John and Marvin. Solid (and at times not quite appreciated) work! One thing that I noticed in the report is that the detailed metrics around releases are missing. Do folks think there's a valu

Re: Do we still need release metrics as part of the report?

2014-06-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> One thing that I noticed in the report is that the detailed >> metrics around releases are missing. Do folks think >> there's a value in having the

Re: Do we still need release metrics as part of the report?

2014-06-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> first of all, let me start with, once again, expressing >> tremendous gratitude to our report managers: John >> and Marvin. Solid (and at times not qu

Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! I would like to kindly request some assistance from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap, kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed). I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have for these projects are justified and if they are, what would be the proposed steps for the IPM

Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even > monitor it anymore I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start different

Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Upayavira wrote: > Roman, > > Regarding Wave, this comes up periodically. The two mentors (myself and > Christian) are of the opinion that it sitting in the incubator is not > doing harm. > > The project is definitely in need of new resource, and I wonder whether >

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache Celix as TLP

2014-06-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
I've been around Celix for some time. It is small but a very robust community that is also slowly growing. Personally, I'd say its time to put this proposal for a general@ vote. Thanks, Roman. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Alexander Broekhuis wrote: > Hello incubator folks, > > Can someone p

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache Celix as TLP

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Celix Project: * Alexander Broekhuis

Re: [VOTE] Retire the S4 podling

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > Per recent discussions on general@[1] and s4-dev@ [2], I went ahead and > called for a VOTE on the S4 dev@ mailing list [3] about retiring the > podling. That VOTE has passed with no -1s and 4 (binding) +1s from the > podling PM

Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > I pinged Kalumet on their dev list and they seem keep to continue. Hm. It would be useful if we could come up with concrete steps to move this project in a particular direction. But even before that happens, I'd like to make sure tha

Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are >> we comfortable with having "professional student" projects in the >> incub

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache Celix as TLP

2014-06-16 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > Since I regularly get involved in discussions (but hardly ever commit code) I > would like to > stay involved. So, Alexander, feel free to update the graduation proposal and > add me. I am exactly in the same boat and would love to stay

Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > - no new committer for a year > - AND no release for a year > - AND less than 20 emails in a month on dev@ > - AND less than 10 commits in a month > - AND no way to change this in the next three months (in example: hackathon > on h

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache Celix as TLP

2014-06-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
d be it further > >RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and >hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the >Apache Celix Project: > > * Alexander Broekhuis > * Pepijn Noltes

[DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-06-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! based on a recent thread inspired by observing some of the podlings, I'd like to kick start a discussion around making an amendment to our Incubator policy: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html It feels like we're missing one important part to the whole process --

Re: Call for July's Report Manager

2014-06-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Would love to have as much help as I can get for the next moth! Thank you guys for volunteering! Thanks, Roman (the lazy IPMC chair ;-)) On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014, at 04:33 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:44 AM, John D.

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Celix as Top Level Project

2014-06-19 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alexander Broekhuis wrote: > Hi All, > > Since entering Incubation in November 2010, the Celix podling been working > towards graduation. The community has grown, releases have been made and > new committers have been added. > Over the last couple of months all ite

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha wrote: > >> Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord. >> > > Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this > statement is amazingly naive about h

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli wrote: > I see two threads here > - Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity based on > the PPMC html page > - Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a hard > requirement or how > to grow

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-06-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > I think its not enough to just look at release / committer additions. > > In the case of Wave, there was a committer addition in the past year. Still > no commits, nor a release. Looking closer you would find that committer was > added

[REQUEST] Seeking volunteer replacement mentors for NPanday

2014-06-24 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! given the current situation with NPanday's mentors, I'd like to request additional help from IPMC. If you could consider spending your cycles helping NPanday community figure out the roadmap ahead, please reply to this thread. My goal is to find at least one active replacement mentor by the e

Re: July report project list

2014-06-28 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > I've done this myself after all. It's important to maintain the monthly tags > correctly in podlings.xml because otherwise we get chaos in the report > reminders as happened this month. > > For various reasons, I am probably going to have

Re: Joining IPMC

2014-06-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get on to IPMC so that I can help mentor some of the > incubator projects. I am already an ASF member and also championing the > Slider project. > > Let me know how I can move forward with this. Would love t

Re: [REQUEST] Seeking volunteer replacement mentors for NPanday

2014-06-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
k wrote: > Hey Roman. > > I can find a few cycles to help with that, if no one else with more experience > wants to step in. > > Regards, > Cos > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:04PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> Hi! >> >> given the current situation with NP

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-06-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
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 current situation is simply sad (top 8 project): https://whimsy.apache.org/incuba

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubator exit criteria

2014-06-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I'll offer OpenOffice as an example of how long an initial podling > release can take in some cases, due to a number of factors: I agree with all of your points. Most of all with your final conclusion. I still can't help but comment on one singl

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