Re: graduation proposal?

2012-06-06 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#toplevel there needs to be a vote at the IPMC level. Should we go ahead and start that process and mention that we may add one person (Dmitri) to the initial member list in the

Re: graduation proposal?

2012-06-06 Thread fapee...@ncsu.edu
I agree. Aaron - Reply message - From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 3:00 pm Subject: graduation proposal? To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see I didn't state what I was thinking. I was thinking what you

Re: graduation proposal?

2012-06-04 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevan, Thanks for the reminder. I think everything will be ready for sending the board resolution to the general list after we get a userid from Dmitri. I went ahead and changed all of the bold parts on the resolution wiki page to normal fonts.

Re: Graduation

2012-05-16 Thread Josh Thompson
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.com wrote: On May 14, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On May 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: To record my perspective -- I will support graduation as a TLP. I do not, however, intend to continue my

Re: Graduation

2012-05-16 Thread Aaron Peeler
My thoughts exactly. Thanks to each of you for your advice and mentoring. Best Regards, Aaron On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.com wrote: On May 14, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Alan D. Cabrera

Re: Graduation

2012-05-15 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 14, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On May 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: To record my perspective -- I will support graduation as a TLP. I do not, however, intend to continue my participation in the community. I may monitor mailing lists from

Re: Graduation

2012-05-14 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: To record my perspective -- I will support graduation as a TLP. I do not, however, intend to continue my participation in the community. I may monitor mailing lists from time-to-time, but do not wish to be a committer/PMC member. I

Re: Graduation

2012-05-12 Thread Matt Hogstrom
To record my perspective -- I will support graduation as a TLP. I do not, however, intend to continue my participation in the community. I may monitor mailing lists from time-to-time, but do not wish to be a committer/PMC member. I too think its time and support graduation to TLP. Kevan

Re: Graduation

2012-05-08 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Dmitri, No apologies necessary. This is a good and important question. The graduation is the process in which a incubator project becomes a Top Level Project (TLP). The graduation means that a project has shown that it (as a community) understands the Apache Software Foundation's core

Re: Graduation

2012-05-08 Thread Andy Kurth
Good explanation Aaron. Regarding the benefits of graduating -- I don't know if there are any tangible benefits but in my opinion there are some intangible benefits: - The Apache brand is pretty well-known and prestigious. They don't accept just any old open-source project as an official

Re: Graduation

2012-05-08 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 8, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Andy Kurth wrote: Graduating will not and should not change the way VCL is used or how the community operates. Upon successful graduation, there are some administrative tasks that need to be done but the day-to-day community activity shouldn't change. I think

Re: Graduation Thoughts

2012-03-17 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Mar 16, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Guys, I've been an absent mentor and am catching up on e-mail. In looking at VCL it seems like you're kinda past time to graduate. Kind of like a 26-year-old college Student living at home :) Thoughts on kicking off the process?

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-09 Thread Kevan Miller
On Sep 8, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a place where such features are listed? thanks Art There are 2 places for these types of features to be listed right now. One is to look at the roadmap listed on the latest

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-08 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday September 08, 2011, Kevan Miller wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: It's been a while since we've had a graduation discussion. I've seen good progress in the

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-08 Thread Art Vandenberg
I concur with the thoughts on this. At Georgia State I am working with Computer Science (I am in IT) to build up some resources that can move toward contributor level. It is a somewhat gradual process, but I think we are moving in the right direction. Would it be useful to consider

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Gardner
I too am ramping up a pilot here at Virginia Tech and expect to be able to contribute more in the future. I have incomplete code for the frontend that adds support for IPv6. (I have also fixed a bug in IPv4 validity checking which I need to check in but the fix is in the context of the IPv6 code.)

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-08 Thread Art Vandenberg
thanks. Will look to JIRA then. Art On Sep 8, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a place where such features are listed? thanks Art There are 2 places for these types of features to be listed right now. One is to look at the

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:22 AM, James O'Dell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/4/2011 4:55 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: It's been a while since we've had a graduation discussion. I've seen good progress in the

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-06 Thread Aaron Peeler
I agree with the diversity point and would also like to see more diversity among the community developers. I don't see NCSU stopping our efforts on VCL development, but that is just my view point. NCSU has a great deal invested in our time, resources, and other research projects using VCL

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-06 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/4/2011 4:55 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: It's been a while since we've had a graduation discussion. I've seen good progress in the community. Would be interested in hearing the thoughts of

Re: Graduation?

2011-09-04 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: It's been a while since we've had a graduation discussion. I've seen good progress in the community. Would be interested in hearing the thoughts of others. Do we feel the community is ready for graduation? Or is additional work required?