Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-23 Thread Rob Vesse
On 21/03/2015 19:24, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >If in stead of the veto possibility the simple majority rule was at play, >it might have been so that fewer project would have reported consecutively >that no new people were onboarded A lack of new people on-boarded does not necessarily indicate a pro

Re: Disk space requirement for building on Windows

2015-03-10 Thread Rob Vesse
Using an alternative approach would not make any difference It is a fundamental bug in Windows memory mapped files that means that a JVM can never guarantee to completely release memory mapped files while the JVM is alive. Andy has posted this many times on threads about TDB on Windows in the pas

Re: Apache Reporter Service

2015-03-03 Thread Rob Vesse
eate it - >I'm not sure how it should be displayed and what info to include. I'm >not saying you should open up ye olde MS Paint and draw something, but >some sort of visual idea would be nice. > >With regards, >Daniel. > >On 2015-03-03 12:44, Rob Vesse wrote: &g

Re: Apache Reporter Service

2015-03-03 Thread Rob Vesse
Daniel This is really cool Quick question - how do we correct errors in the release data? I just went through and added all the releases for the PMC of which I am a member and realised I made a typo in the version number for one of our releases. Where do I go to correct this? Also it would be n

Re: GSoC 2015 - very little interest so far

2015-02-11 Thread Rob Vesse
Uli Just did a quick run through for the Jena project, I found we had a bunch of things labelled as gsoc but not as gsoc2015 In general there seems to be lots of open issues in JIRA which are labelled gsoc and not labelled gsoc2015 http://s.apache.org/open-gsoc-not-2015 There are a few project

Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Rob Vesse
On 03/02/2015 01:11, "jan i" wrote: >We should really make that clear to people, I strongly believe the general >opinion is non-project talks are not welcome. I base this on the fact >that >a number of talks for Denver and Budapest was rejected for being too >company like. Having been a reviewe

Re: Mailinglists - a tool from the 90s?

2015-01-19 Thread Rob Vesse
The core mantra of the ASF is "community over code" it is not purely about the code. One of the key functions of the mailing list IMO is to bring the community together in one venue and not require participants to have to go to multiple venues in order to understand what is going on with a project

Re: Some maturity model comments

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Vesse
On 15/01/2015 11:33, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: >On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Rob Vesse wrote: >... >> I think the LC50 is actually correct but could perhaps be phrased >>better... > >I've used your suggestion, thanks! Great > >> QU30: &

Re: Some maturity model comments

2015-01-14 Thread Rob Vesse
LC50: I think the LC50 is actually correct but could perhaps be phrased better My understanding was that the ASF owns the copyright for the collective work of the project I.e. releases. As Benson notes contributors retain copyright on their contributions but grant the ASF a perpetual license to

Re: ApacheCon papers?

2015-01-13 Thread Rob Vesse
Claude It is worth noting that ApacheCon talks are audio recorded (and some video recorded) and they eventually make their way up onto YouTube as and when the volunteers involved have time to process all the recordings https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation?spfreload=10 Rob On 13/01/2

Re: Attendee Numbers for ApacheCon EU?

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Vesse
11/25/2014 06:36 AM, Rob Vesse wrote: >> Does anyone have an attendance figures for last weeks ApacheCon EU >>since I >> ideally need to include it in my conference trip report? >> >> Also one of the conference volunteers mentioned in passing that they >>were >>

Re: Attendee Numbers for ApacheCon EU?

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Vesse
jan Comments inline: On 25/11/2014 14:06, "jan i" wrote: >On 25 November 2014 at 12:36, Rob Vesse wrote: > >> Does anyone have an attendance figures for last weeks ApacheCon EU >>since I >> ideally need to include it in my conference trip report? >> &g

Attendee Numbers for ApacheCon EU?

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Vesse
Does anyone have an attendance figures for last weeks ApacheCon EU since I ideally need to include it in my conference trip report? Also one of the conference volunteers mentioned in passing that they were counting attendees in individual sessions. If they were is this data going to be collated a

Re: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin

2014-11-24 Thread Rob Vesse
Kay - Generally any interested Apache committer can ask to be added to the reviewers group for ApacheCon events in the Linux Foundation CFP system. You simply need to drop an email here/to Rich offering to help. If you've done reviewing for the previous two LF organised events then in principal

Re: Code of conduct

2014-11-18 Thread Rob Vesse
Great work Rich The community.apache.org site has a specific question on this in the Newbie FAQ (http://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html) which just points to the wiki currently. I have made an edit that points to the newly published document but I don't have write permissions to publish the u

Re: Linked Data track (Was Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with)

2014-07-15 Thread Rob Vesse
Comments inline: On 15/07/2014 07:32, "Sergio Fernández" wrote: >Hi Rich, > >On 14/07/14 17:19, Rich Bowen wrote: >> Hey, Linked Data folks, I need some last minute help. >> >> http://tm3.org/aceu2014tracks - see Linked Data tab >> >> There are 9 talks marked Accept, 4 talks marked Average. > >P

Re: Understanding the commit-then-review workflow

2014-07-09 Thread Rob Vesse
A practical example of a technical veto I've seen was when we added some new optimisations that interacted badly with a pre-existing API in some rare corner cases. This actually went into a release and it wasn't until a particularly vocal community member got round to upgrading that we became awar

Re: Proposing for Apache Member?

2014-07-08 Thread Rob Vesse
Pierre Not unless one/more of those contributors is themselves a Member/Officer of the ASF - see Sectopn 4.1 of the Bylaws (http://apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html#4.1) which states the following: To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member of the corp

Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with

2014-07-01 Thread Rob Vesse
I took a first pass at categorising the talks that would fall under the Linked Data category Andy & Sergio who are promoting that track will need to review and make sure I haven't missed/miscategorized anything Rob On 01/07/2014 00:30, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > >On 06/30/2014 09:11 AM, Rich Bowe

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-10 Thread Rob Vesse
e that the PMC says "as long as everyone is happy with >running short releases, we will make short releases... but if anyone yells >'stall the ball' then it's a 72h vote until they say 'nah it's grand go >ahead'... and any contentious votes have to go 72

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-10 Thread Rob Vesse
Realistically I have rarely been involved in a project where the vote comes out of the blue. Projects have typically already discussed whether to move ahead with a release on the dev list in advance of the vote so I've always known the vote was coming. While any project member can propose a relea

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-31 Thread Rob Vesse
Re: Question 2 It was previously stated that people should review anything they have an interest in (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201401.mbox/%3cCAD6 VreuUk=a5ggc2rtbu9ekjhiufma4eoxr5q4ssau3xmtg...@mail.gmail.com%3e) so hopefully people who are reviewing anyway will revi

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Vesse
Out of interest do the speakers see the specific comments individual reviewers post or are these aggregated/anonymised in some way? Rob On 30/01/2014 04:40, "Rich Bowen" wrote: >The system gives us accept/reject rankings. If you want to communicate >more >than that, email me. Or call me. I want