RE: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 Now lets get back in topic. A maturity model starts at immature and works towards mature. All views are allowed on that spectrum (the hard part is agreeing where each view is but luckily the Apache Way defines much if that for us) Sent from my Windows Phone

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > On 6 Jan 2015, at 18:09, jan i wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning > wrote: > > > >> These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private > list > >> has no place in Apache projects. Private

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 18:09, jan i wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning wrote: > >> These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list >> has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited >> appropriate uses and that policy has served Apa

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread jan i
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning wrote: > These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list > has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited > appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. +1 jan i > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 20

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Ted Dunning
These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote

Re: ApacheCon Austin keynotes (and other stuff)

2015-01-06 Thread Rich Bowen
By the way, if anyone has any reason at all that one of the proposed keynoters is going to be an embarrassment, *PLEASE* speak up sooner rather than later, and don't be worried about hurting feelings. Canceling a keynote at the last minute is a HUGE embarrassment, not to mention cost, and if yo

RE: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It seems to me that the journalist practice of wanting confidential access serves the interests of the journalist, not the project. I would simply deny such requests and/or encourage the journalist to put questions on a public list. With regard to "competitors," I just remind myself that forkin

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
I would add something about the build of the sources. Because having sources without having a repeatable build or having no clue about how to build it, it makes the sources quite useless. I had some troubles recently with a project. Its build depends on a resource which is not available anymore

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Tim Williams wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: The binaries OpenOffice makes available for download from its official site are "convenience binaries" as per Bertrand's description. We are not going to ask users to build it themselves! We're heading off-

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Mike Drob
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Mike Drob wrote: > > > How much of this is already covered by the Incubation process? Hopefully > > projects don't revert to improper licensing or closed development after > > they graduate. > > The absence

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:48, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: >> projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for >> much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad >> practice. > > If you as a project had a competitor, poss

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Mike Drob wrote: > How much of this is already covered by the Incubation process? Hopefully > projects don't revert to improper licensing or closed development after > they graduate. The absence of clear documentation harms projects both during and after incubati

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Tim Williams
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 06/01/2015 Vincent Keunen wrote: >> >> On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>> >>> convenience binaries are not Apache Releases. >> >> Let's not forget OpenOffice and the likes. Having all users compile the >> source code *ma

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Vincent Keunen wrote: On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: convenience binaries are not Apache Releases. Let's not forget OpenOffice and the likes. Having all users compile the source code *may* reduce the installed base. ;-) The binaries OpenOffice makes available

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad practice. If you as a project had a competitor, possibly a proprietary one, would you discuss marketing strategy in pu

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Mike Drob
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a > related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can > be useful. > > So let's start - here's my rough initial list of items: > > Code: open,

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:05, Vincent Keunen wrote: > > > On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> Hi Marcel, >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans >> wrote: >>> ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the >>> statement “source code only” probably app

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread sebb
On 6 January 2015 at 18:31, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: >> ...How about a compromise: >> distribution of releases and source: publicly, in a _consistent_ manner >> according to foundation guidelines?... > > Works for me. Does not work for me.

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Keunen
On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code release, meaning that it should not contain any bin

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > ...How about a compromise: > distribution of releases and source: publicly, in a _consistent_ manner > according to foundation guidelines?... Works for me. -Bertrand

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code release, meaning that it should not contain any bin

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the > statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code > release, meaning that it should not contain any binaries. Since > convenience binaries are not of

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread jan i
On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > On 2015-01-06 18:53, Vincent Keunen wrote: > >> Good idea. >> >> I would just remove the "only" from "Releases: source code only". Maybe >> say "Releases: source code at the minimum" ? It's not a problem to have >> some projects also release b

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Marcel Offermans
On 6 Jan 2015 at 19:01:01, Daniel Gruno (humbed...@apache.org) wrote: On 2015-01-06 18:53, Vincent Keunen wrote:  > Good idea.  >  > I would just remove the "only" from "Releases: source code only".  > Maybe say "Releases: source code at the minimum" ? It's not a problem  > to have some projects al

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-06 18:53, Vincent Keunen wrote: Good idea. I would just remove the "only" from "Releases: source code only". Maybe say "Releases: source code at the minimum" ? It's not a problem to have some projects also release binaries, is it? Releasing binaries have, to this point, always b

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Keunen
Good idea. I would just remove the "only" from "Releases: source code only". Maybe say "Releases: source code at the minimum" ? It's not a problem to have some projects also release binaries, is it? Shouldn't there be also something about a minimum documentation? Not necessarily doc on sour

A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can be useful. So let's start - here's my rough initial list of items: Code: open, discoverable, fully public history, documented provenance Quality: security,

Re: ApacheCon NA 2015 Travel Assistance Applications now open!

2015-01-06 Thread jan i
thanks for the tip, I will get it corrected. rgds jan i On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 13/12/2014 jan i wrote: > >> The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) are pleased to announce that travel >> assistance applications for ApacheCon North America 2015 are now open! ... >

Re: Fwd: ApacheCon NA 2015 Travel Assistance Applications now open!

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2014 jan i wrote: The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) are pleased to announce that travel assistance applications for ApacheCon North America 2015 are now open! ... http://www.apache.org/travel/ The passport/visa information on that page are still the ones for Budapest and EU appare