Re: No Unicode Feather?

2016-05-24 Thread Benson Margulies
Please, no. Emoji are a giant embarrassment to the UTC. Does the ASF really want to lump itself in with the people demanding characters for 'poop'? But if you insist, I can send you the process. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Christopher wrote: > This is a somewhat serious question (but only

Re: SHA512 by default for GPG sigs

2016-05-18 Thread Benson Margulies
Greg, the proposal is for the _Default ASF POM_ to be set up so that _all_ projects would use SHA-512. This is not a question for the Maven PMC. On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > > Hi Christopher: > > Thanks for your involvement. Apache Maven is one of many projects at the >

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

2015-11-23 Thread Benson Margulies
It won't be a community if people are unable to follow the discussions. I think that it would be fine to handle user@ traffic in whatever language, but we need to enforce English as the language of community decision making. On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread Benson Margulies
The legal status of a work is not determined by the markings on it. If someone granted a license to the ASF, they granted a license. If a third party jumps the gun and grabs a copy, and complies with the situation, they're fine, including ripping out the obsolete markings for themselves. On Tue, A

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
This thread started as a discussion of Linux distros and trademarks. Perhaps I could try to return it there? If a distro takes a release of Apache X, compiles it with minimal changes that adapt it to the environment, and distributes it, I believe that it's a fine thing for them to call it simple A

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >>> Coming in late. >>> >>> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in&

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a LICENSE file at the top, I would think that this counts as a legal 'publication'

Mysterious email reflector

2015-08-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Is everyone else seeing endless copies reflected from line0928769...@gmail.com?

Re: slack

2015-08-10 Thread Benson Margulies
I think it's important to recognize how the board and the foundation have handled this issue over time. The absolute requirement is open decision-making. Avoiding real-time communications avoids many possible failures of open decision-making. (Not, of course, all.) After all, the simplest primrose

Re: slack

2015-08-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > (top post) > > So, I pinged the nice folks at Slack (and they really are nice!, or at least > the guy I communicated with), and asked them about: > > * open source: No. > * the issue of uncaptured conversations, as Ted D. mentioned ("the

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-07 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Chase wrote: > Does "...based on Apache Hadoop" require a clear dependency notation as to > which versions of Apache component releases are part of the commercial > distribution? No, it cannot. Trademark law is not a matter of such distinctions, and our ve

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-06 Thread Benson Margulies
It's all trademark. They can release whatever they want so long as they clearly document that it does not come from us. We ask them to achieve this clarity via certain trademark guidelines, but the principle behind the thing is that they can't mislead the public into thinking it comes from us. On

Re: Incubating, Graduating & Code of conduct @ The ASF (spin-off of Better specifying....)

2015-07-06 Thread Benson Margulies
This thread started with a discussion of the CoC. The premise of the thread was this: that counter-CoC behavior might emerge on a project, and that the project might tolerate, or even celebrate, that behavior, for lack of an explicit bylaw explicitly adopting the CoC. This premise is wrong. The Co

Re: Incubating, Graduating & Code of conduct @ The ASF (spin-off of Better specifying....)

2015-07-04 Thread Benson Margulies
Writing as someone who has mentored a squad of podlings, I do not believe that there is any requirement for any project to ever adopt any bylaws at all. I was never involved where the board ask for bylaws, and I'm faintly curious as to how that ever came to pass. The normal process is for podlings

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-24 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 03/24/2015 06:43 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: >> >> Shouldn't the sentence 'Any veto must be accompanied by reasoning and be >> prepared to defend it. Other members can attempt to encourage them to >> change.' then be removed >> fromhttp://co

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-24 Thread Benson Margulies
Perhaps this discussion stems from questions about how Apache uses the term 'consensus'. In the rest of the world, there is a formally defined 'consensus decision process'. The goal of this process is to make decisions when possible, and leave the status quo otherwise. Very roughly, discussion tak

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-21 Thread Benson Margulies
In a healthy community, in my experience: 1: someone starts a DISCUSS thread to propose adding a person. 2: if someone else had serious reservations, they state those reservations 3a: remarks from others cause the person with the reservations to withdraw them, and the group proceeds to a VOTE. 3

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-21 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to suggest backing up from the point where Alex was commenting. It is an Apache goal to build broad communities, not to build homogeneous groups. That includes PMC as well as committers. To me, this suggests that the community-building starts when the person shows up. Hypothetical: a new

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:38 PM, jan i wrote: > On 14 February 2015 at 20:03, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < > ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> Louis, for independent data see >> http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/november/how-grow-your-open-source-project-10x-and-revenues-5x >> >> This isn't abo

Re: Mailinglists - a tool from the 90s?

2015-01-18 Thread Benson Margulies
With respect to search: There's an ASF project, some of you might have heard of it, and, rumor has it, they build a pretty good full-text search engine. So, instead of complaining about the quality of MarkMail, perhaps we could address this end of things by looking into more sophisticated use of,

Re: Mailinglists - a tool from the 90s?

2015-01-18 Thread Benson Margulies
The Apache Software Foundation has a requirement of open, public, decision-making. The short-hand implication of those requirements is that 'discussions that lead to decisions are made on mailing lists.' Closely related is the requirement that important functions take place on ASF infrastructure.

Re: Some maturity model comments

2015-01-14 Thread Benson Margulies
privately archived. The outcomes of such consensus should where possible > be discussed in public as soon as it is appropriate to do so. > > That isn't great wording but hopefully you get what I am trying to convey > - projects should rarely discuss in private and any discussions

Some maturity model comments

2015-01-14 Thread Benson Margulies
CD40: perhaps change 'previous version' to 'released version' CD50: the committer is not necessarily the author; someone might read this and not understand what it implies for committers committing contributions via all of the channels allowed for by the AL. One patch would be 'immediate provenanc

Re: Request to vouch for the Terasology organization's participation as a mentor in GSOC 2015

2014-03-12 Thread Benson Margulies
In my opinion, Google is making an incoherent request. What does it mean for one organization to vouch for another? What, specifically, does Google think that the ASF could, as a Foundation, know about Terasology? If Google were to publish something very specific and concrete about this, perhaps it

Re: ApacheCon community panel

2014-03-11 Thread Benson Margulies
It might be more interesting to skip Cordova altogether. The industry is full of ferment about CD. If everyone checks their rhetoric at the door, there could be an interesting conversation about how to mesh the ideas of CD and the ideals of the ASF. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Jim Jagielski

Re: ApacheCon community panel

2014-03-10 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't see how you can anticipate anything productive, given the number of board members who think that the concept is evil, or, at least, counter to their vision of the Apache Way. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 03/10/2014 02:36 PM, Nick Burch wrote: >> >> On Mon, 10

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-13 Thread Benson Margulies
ablish and maintain a cadence _within the rules as we know them today_, and stay healthy. Stephen has proposed that experiment to the Maven PMC of which he is the chair, and if it goes well, we'll make a proposal to take further steps. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 13, 2014

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-13 Thread Benson Margulies
This conversation goes in a circle. I see two positions: 1: Cadence releases are inevitably incompatible with Apache community values. 2: Cadence releases are not inevitably incompatible with Apache community values. People who take the first position see this desire to use cadence as weakening o

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Could I suggest a focus on making the release process easier? That will benefit everybody, and serve as a platform for ongoing discussion about releases and cadences. It seems to me that we could make voters' jobs easier. This would help get releases approved _in 72 hours_, to start with. We ask

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Upayavira wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014, at 01:48 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> > >> > On Feb 10, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Rob Vesse wrote: >> >> With a large

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> In other words, an automated process can still allow for completely >> inclusive participation. >> > > I never said that it couldn't

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Rob Vesse wrote: >> With a large enough PMC likely there will be enough active people to >> obtain the necessary +1's in the 12hr window regardless of a few people >> being unavailable > > A concern is that if

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-08 Thread Benson Margulies
What I see here is a disagreement about the meaning of the Apache brand. Some people feel that the Apache brand should always imply a particular style of project. Other people in the past have written at length that the ASF should be a big tent that accommodates many styles of project. There are al

Re: Feedback on Flex board report

2013-04-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Lewis, did you or anyone else feel that you were pushed to git? While your story has a bit of @infra-specific business to it, the majority of it and flex's seem to be composed of 'we heard that git was cool, so we moved to it, and we stepped on a rake.' Personally, I wouldn't recommend that any c

Re: Process, policy and best practice

2013-04-01 Thread Benson Margulies
As I see it, the primary attraction here is that we could end up with *one* coherent body of documentation on policies and procedures, available to project new and old.

Re: First draft of slides for ApacheCon

2013-02-19 Thread Benson Margulies
Sigh. No bad joke goes unpunished. That's an intentional mistake, to play off of the word 'capricious'. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:39 AM, wrote: > Benson Margulies wrote on 02/16/2013 01:54:52 PM: > >> From: Benson Margulies >> To: "dev@community.apache.o

Re: First draft of slides for ApacheCon

2013-02-17 Thread Benson Margulies
the wrong accent is definitely a typo. thanks. On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:47 AM, "Hervé BOUTEMY" wrote: > Le dimanche 17 février 2013 06:55:21 Benson Margulies a écrit : >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Hervé BOUTEMY > wrote: >>> slide 5: french typo >

Re: First draft of slides for ApacheCon

2013-02-17 Thread Benson Margulies
fL, PMC, IPMC, PPMC, CCLA, > SGA, CTR, RTC, TLP, AL): should add plain-text explanations first time each > one > is used, at least in comments > > Regards, > > Hervé > > Le samedi 16 février 2013 13:54:52 Benson Margulies a écrit : >> https://docs.google.com/pr

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-16 Thread Benson Margulies
ease excuse mistakes and brevity > On 16 Feb 2013 18:00, "Benson Margulies" wrote: > >> Are there some, well, slides? >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea >> wrote: >> > @All, thanks for the pointers. >> > @Benson, will

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Ah, big fun. Preparation definitely a Job for Beer! On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > Hi > >In my case it was an interactive one and didn't use any slides > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 > Apologies for any typos > On Feb 16, 2013

First draft of slides for ApacheCon

2013-02-16 Thread Benson Margulies
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XSqXy9rz-RDcE-P2cK7dEmyjGGHvK8--mR4k_E-qAL4/edit?usp=sharing I've made my first pass at the slides for the talk I'm giving on the incubator in Portland. If anyone is really allergic to Google Docs, I can export it and put it somewhere otherwise accessible.

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Are there some, well, slides? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: > @All, thanks for the pointers. > @Benson, will do, enjoy vacation. > Hadrian > > > On 02/13/2013 07:29 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Hadrian, >> >> I'm going

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Hadrian, I'm going to be on vacation next week. On the other hand, the time slot is on Thursday AM. So I'd propose tuning this up over beer on site. --benson On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Ross Gardler > wrote: > >> I g

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd be happy to turn it into a Punch & Judy show with Hadrian. On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: >> I can take it if nobody else wants it. > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Benson Margulies wrote: >> I could > >

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-01-31 Thread Benson Margulies
I could On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:04 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > Hi All > > Sadly, it looks like Mohammad Nour won't be able to join us in Portland after > all :( He was down to speak in the community track, giving an updated version > of a popular talk - Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? [

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > Benson Margulies: >> Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a >> summary of the central idea that started this discussion: that the default >> authorization scheme for Subversion at Apac

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
ICLAs are still an absolute requirement. So, imagine an Apache project with a policy like: Commit rights are granted on request to people with an Apache ICLA on file ... On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Benson Margulies >

Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Over the last several weeks, there has been a length discussion amongst Apache Foundation members about how the Foundation manages access to source control, with a focus on Subversion. Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a summary of the central idea that started

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Perhaps I can help here. The root of all this, as I understand it, is an optional dependency. There is, of course, code that depends on the optional dependency. However, no one has mentioned any *source* code that is under an incompatible license, such as modified sources of an LGPL component. Th

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 21 August 2012 17:23, Benson Margulies wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ross Gardler >> wrote: >>> On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 a

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ross Gardler >> wrote: >>> Further to Bertrand comment it's not the PMC that is important but the >>> people doin

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Benson Margulies
uestion; I could see arguments either way. > > From a mobile device - forgive errors and terseness > On Aug 21, 2012 2:47 PM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" > wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Benson Margulies >> wrote: >> > Any particular reason why t

Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Benson Margulies
Any particular reason why the comdev web page doesn't include a list of the comdev PMC members, as any other PMC's page would?

project supervision

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
A recent thread on legal-discuss drifted off into a discussion of a project pathology that some thought was part of the historical record of the Maven project. As a fairly recent addition to the Maven PMC, I've been trying to get some historical sense of the project so as to better understand the

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-31 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Second, I wonder about the proposed governance and logic of this whole >> 'java package id rules' business. Here's a scenario: someone from >> ou

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Benson, > > You honed in on PRECISELY the 2 points I was trying to make. > Thanks for making them so succinctly. One thing I will comment > on explicitly (read below): > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:52 AM, B

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
There are two aspects of this situation that I want to highlight: First, there's a policy tension at the heart of the whole Apache Extras concept that has me puzzled. I could point to a raft of messages from board members expressing extremely vehement views in opposition to 'circumventing license

SEO example problem

2011-11-23 Thread Benson Margulies
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52235 Has anyone a clue as to how to attack the above?

Re: SEO

2011-11-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Weir wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Ross Gardler >> wrote: >>> On 13 November 2011 11:22, Benson Margulies wrote: >>>> Could the comdev PMC provide some assistance with basic SEO for

Re: SEO

2011-11-13 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 13 November 2011 11:22, Benson Margulies wrote: >> Could the comdev PMC provide some assistance with basic SEO for Apache >> projects? > > If you are willing to do this, then yes ;-) Unfortunately, I don't

SEO

2011-11-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Could the comdev PMC provide some assistance with basic SEO for Apache projects? Every so often, I type in a google query, and am stunned at the extent to which the Official Apache Web Site for an Apache project fails to show up anywhere on the first page.

Re: GSoC & Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 21 July 2011 21:55, Benson Margulies wrote: >>> >>> Personally I feel that GSoC students should earn commit access just >>> like anyone else. >> >> I have a lot of sympathy for Greg'

Re: GSoC & Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Benson Margulies
> > Personally I feel that GSoC students should earn commit access just > like anyone else. I have a lot of sympathy for Greg's position. Treating 'committer' as a single monolithic category drives people away. A typical problem case is someone who sets out to undertake a big, complex, contributi

Re: Apache project guidelines docs += independence?

2011-05-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> There are some minor English language issues, like agreement in >> number. Sean, do you want edits? or, dear, s/sean/shane/. Naughty Iphone! > > I'm not sure if Sean wants edit

Re: Apache project guidelines docs += independence?

2011-05-16 Thread Benson Margulies
There are some minor English language issues, like agreement in number. Sean, do you want edits? On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Upayavira wrote: > +! reads well and clarifies some useful points we often take for > granted. > > Upayavira > > On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:58 -0400, "Michael McCandless"

Re: Stackoverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Benson Margulies
h, the question is probably lost for good. Some very lightweight system for allowing users to open 'tickets' asking for some sort of specific assistance might help here. Or it, too, might wash away in the tide. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:47 PM, David Blevins wrote: > > On M

Re: Stackoverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Benson Margulies
In my opinion, it's completely wrong-headed to imagine that there's any barrier to any PMC choosing to open a simple beachhead on SO and posting a link like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/caliper on their web presence. The arguments here are reasons why a PMC might choose to put more or

Re: StackOverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Benson Margulies
I think that the problem of 'committer shows up as 'rep=1' is not a big problem. The existing moderation circus on SO seems to work reasonably well, and it isn't tag-specific. If committers show up and answer questions, they'll get upvotes, and eventually acquire privileges. I can't predict how A

Stackoverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Benson Margulies
No discussion at the ASF is complete until we have had it twice. A month or so ago, there was a lengthy thread about stackoverflow.com on members@. It rather dribbled out. Recently, someone re-stirred that pot, and Nick Burch recommended taking it over here rather than fill all the members@ mailb

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
I have interest, but I have a very, very, strong priority toward family on free time, and it's not so easy to transport the skating competitions, piano lessons, and other family weekend activities to Ireland. Aide from the fact that, as part of that priority, I tend to want to spend the time with t

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, thing #1, I missed the weekend aspect. So I'm effectively 50% nuts. I mean 'selection' in the 'self-selection' sense of the term. I confess that I don't have a suggestion. I wish I'd started by asking about who turns up. A few days ago, we had a load of anti-corporate messages on the incuba

The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm a little puzzled by the retreats. On the one hand, the members and incubator lists have a constant stream of commentary of one snarkiness or another about our focus on individuals, rather than corporations. Then we have the retreats, which to me seem to select people with very strong corporate

Re: Recognizing non-{code,docs,bits} contributors

2010-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
I may be speaking out of turn, but why not elect them directly to the PMC? If they make a giant non-coding contribution, they belong on the committee even if they aren't committers. Of course, you could avoid any unhappy reactions to this by electing them as committers (a la ted) first and then as

Setting lures for writers?

2010-09-27 Thread Benson Margulies
As projects mature and grow, the quality of the documentation becomes an ever-more-important aspect. Tech writing is, however, a different beast from development. Some projects have been blessed with significant volunteer effort, and others with not-so-volunteer effort as always. Has Comdev ever co

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-21 Thread Benson Margulies
I posted it. I note that nothing seems to display the separate 'summary' I typed in. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Excellent, thank you. > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On 20 Sep 2010, at 23:02, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> https:

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-21 Thread Benson Margulies
I've asked for a login on the blog site. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Excellent, thank you. > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On 20 Sep 2010, at 23:02, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=15ru0kwhqAbT8QA

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-20 Thread Benson Margulies
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=15ru0kwhqAbT8QAVC5Bs0KMeT06ZP5RNnIIbEbeDVQjo&hl=en Lazy consensus lazily added. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Ross, > > I completely spaced that out. I'm quite familiar with it. I'll add it. > This

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-20 Thread Benson Margulies
d this detail, I'll follow up with a > post along the above lines. > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On 20 Sep 2010, at 21:20, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I think I posted the link to a folder instead of a link to the doc. >> >> https://docs.google.com/docu

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-20 Thread Benson Margulies
fore I put it on the blog? > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> On 16/08/2010 23:03, Benson Margulies wrote: >>> >>> I have a goofy blog at blogger. Is there some mechanism for having an ASF >>> blog? >> >> http://blogs.apach

Re: Consensus process

2010-09-20 Thread Benson Margulies
I wrote a draft: https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=15ru0kwhqAbT8QAVC5Bs0KMeT06ZP5RNnIIbEbeDVQjo&hl=en Care to read before I put it on the blog? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 16/08/2010 23:03, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> I have a goofy

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-09-16 Thread Benson Margulies
y apply to us: we deal with adults. > No argument with that. Though there are some days on members@ where I feel like someone needs to hand out juice and cookies. > > > - Original Message > > From: Benson Margulies > > To: dev@community.apache.org > > Sent:

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-09-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Feh. Another screed about raising children from someone who has, apparently, never met one. Every parent I know has had the same experience: hand some infant female a truck, and she rejects it. I'm carefully choosing my words to avoid claiming that this is universal, as opposed to extremely common

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-09-16 Thread Benson Margulies
The women who are actively involved in the ASF led the process of creating, evaluating, and destroying the mailing list that started this whole discussion. They are more than capable and willing to speak/type up about any problems they see. Which Apache communities are you an active member of, and

Re: Consensus process

2010-08-16 Thread Benson Margulies
I have a goofy blog at blogger. Is there some mechanism for having an ASF blog? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 16/08/2010 22:37, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Recent discussions on various lists have led me to think about 'Consensus >> Process&

Consensus process

2010-08-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Recent discussions on various lists have led me to think about 'Consensus Process' as an area of possible effort for comdev. People are not born knowing how to operate a consensus process, and some discussions suggest to me that the communities might benefit from something written down as a aid mem

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o

2010-07-18 Thread Benson Margulies
There's a small potential that someone could misunderstand one thing in Jean's message, so I want to make what I see as a clearer statement of one point. Mailing lists of the form priv...@somepmc.apache.org \are/ archived. Those archives are \not/ available to the general public, but they are full

Re: What are the basic, invariant rules of Apache projects?

2010-05-31 Thread Benson Margulies
You might also cast a gander at the patch I added to INFRA-2715. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Thanks very much for all your comments and additions - here's my final > draft for review. > I plan to post it on Thursday as I'm offline tomorrow and W

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Benson Margulies
I've been holding off on wading into this, but I think that some sort of an idea has jelled. I wonder about Google's statement of the mission. If Google's statement of the mission is: "Get smart students involved in open source," then we have one situation. If, on the other hand, it is more like "

Re: Apache mentoring program

2009-12-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Tim Williams wrote: > Please don't top-post. Did I top-post? I meant to empty my buffer and type in a new message. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> I suggest one jira project called MENTOR, and another ca

Re: Apache mentoring program

2009-12-09 Thread Benson Margulies
I suggest one jira project called MENTOR, and another called COMDEV. I think we should present brand new mentees with as little jargon as possible. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Kathey Marsden >> wrote: >> >>> >>

Re: MentoringProgramming confluence page

2009-12-08 Thread Benson Margulies
Ross, I did another big round of edits based on your responses to my questions. --benson On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/8 Benson Margulies : >> I just submitted my first set of edits here. I adopted a fairly >> high-handed attitude of rewri

MentoringProgramming confluence page

2009-12-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I just submitted my first set of edits here. I adopted a fairly high-handed attitude of rewriting to improve clarity -- according to my ideas of clarity. If you all find it to be a train wreck just roll it back and tell me what you don't like, and I'll try again. I did have some questions that cam

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I have a login. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/Index > > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> Well, when I go to cwiki.apache.org, I get a directory listing, so I >> can't tell. Something is amiss.

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't think so, and as per other message I seem terminally befuddled about interacting with cwiki. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? > > It's in cwiki, tha

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, when I go to cwiki.apache.org, I get a directory listing, so I can't tell. Something is amiss. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? > > It's in cwiki, tha

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> As per some conversations on members@, here I am looking for something >> useful to do :-) > > Great to see you. We're just

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I like this. It's a way to suck in people with useful information to contribute. Later, as you say, some trimming will reduce the number of wandering fragmentary contributions. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev >

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
OK, I get it. Maybe the mentor taxonomy is more important, then. Looks like the goal here is, across lots of projects, to tag off some JIRAs that these people could tackle. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> Very few new people ever h

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity and is a dropdown containing: Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling. The mentor question is not included, since the presumption at CXF is that there's always a mentor available, and the only issue is t

Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
As per some conversations on members@, here I am looking for something useful to do :-)

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