Re: How to track/rank/accept mentor proposals

This option seems a bit better than the text file in SVN. I believe that Google spreadsheets allow enough fine grained access control. The virtue here is that spreadsheets provide a bit more native organization than a file. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ... > - Online S

Re: Why wrong tracker? (was Re: [jira] Commented: (COMDEV-4) External entity in XML causing null pointer exception during DocumentBuilder.parse)

at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:180) > >> at XMLParser.Parse(XMLParser.java:89) > >> at Main.main(Main.java:116) > >> 89 line number points to -> doc = builder.parse(xmlDataFile); > > > > -- > > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > > - > > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > > > > > > > > -- > Ross Gardler > > OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve

Re: Tagging issues in projects

easy to do. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Thoughts? > Volunteers? > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined successful students in Mahout (which is definitely less standards driven). In Derby and similar projects, I think that this can be interpreted differently, but it still is a useful ranking indicator. Within the set of Derby ap

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

I should add that our community is very active (occasionally even aggressive) in providing feedback for ideas whether or not they came in as part of GSoC. As we see it, the Summer of Code is just a one reason to contribute among many others (a hobby, a full time job, religious commitment to a lear

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

This is exactly the observation I have from the Mahout students. I would rather not have a project re-invent something that we already have, but I am thrilled to have a student who is self-directed and horrified at the thought of having a student who needs to be micro-managed. Even if the self-di

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

When mentoring, I also try to provide some gentle help on this by answering any privately sent code questions in public by redirecting to the mailing list. I also send a gentle nudge pointing out that my answer is on the mailing list and that they would get a faster answer on average if they asked

Re: Working on CouchDB or Hadoop

Sean, Take a look at Cassandra, Hbase and Voldemort as well. All provide interesting variants on NOSQL capability. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: > On 19.05.2010 Sean Bartell wrote: > > I was looking for something to do over the summer, and the mentoring > > program looke

Re: Forward planning

Is that URL correctly spelled? (trasnfer?) Mahout has a strong record of welcoming mentorees. Keep us in mind as you go forward. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I've been quite busy recently and as a result my activities here have taken > a back sear. However, now that o

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

How about just edit it to point to the comdev mailing list? On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Can we add a task that Jira to either remove the wiki ( > http://wiki.apache.org/Women/) or make it readonly? or do we need a new > Jira request? >

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

To quote this proposal: WTF? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee < a.g.bhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 20100722 / APORIA WORK / XIIX > > PROPOSAL SUMMARY > > Previously at Apache, we have had a list named "wo...@a.o" that both men > and > women have posted and subscribed t

Re: [Apache Mentoring Programme]JavaScript-only PDF viewer component

You might want to involve the PDFBox group as well. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Hello Charith, > > That is a promising proposal and I'm willing to mentor you. I'll be there > to review your code, I'll help you get help on the mailing lists and I'll > give you feedback.

Re: Contributing positively to a meritocracy (was Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o)

Process comes after somebody willing to perform the process. -1 to the proposed womAn mailing list. On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee < a.g.bhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote: > as ever, my focus here is on process

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

I'll take some if you are offering. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > No argument with that. Though there are some days on members@ where I feel > like someone needs to hand out juice and cookies. >

Re: Should the comdev PMC take ownership of the j...@apache.org list?

+1 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Kathey Marsden < kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On 10/25/2010 9:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Looks like that list does not have a PMC to oversee it, do we want to >> take ownership of it? >> >> This mostly means that this PMC defines

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

Put them in the list of contributors at least. And frankly, I was asked to be a committer on Mahout largely based on similar contributions (with some code). I have subsequently contributed quite a bit of code, but the original offer was made somewhat speculatively. If these contributors of yours

Re: Apache Local Community (ALC) Next Steps

This ALC stuff looks like a way to have local meetups. Why is all this organizational hierarchy needed? Why not just have meetups? On 2019/08/01 13:29:41, Swapnil M Mane wrote: > Dear all, > > Hope you are doing good. > Thanks, everyone who shared their kind thoughts on ALC proposal [1]. >

Re: Effective ways of getting individuals funded to work on ASF projects

I was in the peanut gallery when Tidelift approached the logging project. To me, it looked like Tidelift wanted fairly significant service level guarantees for a very low cost and then wanted to monetize their position of having such guarantees. Aside from whether or not the details were righ

Re: Stackoverflow

There is another factor that comes into play. QA sites like SO also blend in wiki and trust mechanisms. Thus, highly rated users can and do rewrite questions to be more answerable/understandable. They can also rewrite answers if necessary. Without automated karma, the moderation function has to

Re: Capturing mail (was Re: Stackoverflow)

> Ross > > > > > And to avoid the "tag names can be spam" issue having so that only > committers can introduce new tags would be fine for me. It could be a file > in svn or something else equally lame but functional. > > > > > > -David >

Re: GSoC & Temporary commit access accounts

I completely agree with this. Mahout has worked on just this basis quite well. Where it is deemed important for students to be allowed to commit changes, we have used github as a temporary work area, but all changes committed to the project code have been committed by actual committers with the c

Re: First draft of slides for ApacheCon

For gathering wide area comments, gdocs rule. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > 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

Re: Seoul Tajo Meetup

Hyunsik, Good for you for driving community. There will definitely be calls from others who are not local to your meetup to be able to hear or see what happens and if possible to interact as well. It is good if you can provide some of that. Also, remember that "if it doesn't happen on the maili

Re: Seoul Tajo Meetup

Talking in Korean will definitely decrease the demand from outside of Korea. As long as you summarize on-list and decide there, I don't think it is all that different from simply being in an inconvenient time-zone. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > It is great to hear of y

Re: Setup & development software for Macs?

I tested disk I/O before and after enabling FileVault and couldn't really tell the difference. I also turned it on after I had quite a bit of stuff on the disk and it didn't take all that long to convert (considerably less than all night). Leave the firewall on. It is very easy to poke and then

Re: Setup & development software for Macs?

gt;> As far as basic text editors, TextWrangler is probably the best: > >> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ (and it's free). Also > >> available via the App Store. Although the XCode editor is very nice as > >> well. And I've used UltraEdit

Re: Pilot Mentoring Programme with India ICFOSS - Mentor Request Mail.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Dan Filimon wrote: > This is Dan (from Mahout). I'm writing here because for whatever reason > your e-mail hasn't reached dev@mahout and I saw it here first. > I haven't seen that email on the Mahout list either.

Re: Content Committee, ApacheCon 2014

I can help for Mahout, Drill and Zookeeper. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > I can help for Lucene and Mahout. > > -Grant > > On Dec 13, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Neha Narkhede > wrote: > > > I can help with content selection from Kafka PMC. > > > > Thanks, > > Neha > > > > >

Re: Question Related to Mahout

In addition to the web site link that the other respondent gave you, you can send email to u...@mahout.apache.org instead of here. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Pramod Gaur wrote: > Hi All, > > I am Research student who want to start working Mahout. Can you please > provide the steps to inst

Re: ApacheCon content committee

Rich, Many projects have only a single person listed per project. In some cases, it is a person with a strong point of view that is strongly influenced by their non-Apache life. Other important projects have nobody listed. Are submissions going to be curated by the group as a whole? Or only by

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

Roman You aren't the only big data reviewer. I at least an in there. I think that the apparent solitude is a matter of labels. I labelled myself as mahout, hadoop and zookeeper. You said BigData. Same thing. Different words. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 31, 2014, at 19:31, Roman Shaposhni

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

I confirm this impression. There is a similar glut of Cordova talks. In the Cordova talks, however, many of the submissions are from the same few people and the talks are very, very similar. A smaller set of near duplicates occurs in Solr where a number of speakers have volunteered a "State of L

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

We still have to strike a balance at the conference level. I think that the questions to the PMC's will have to be of the form: "We have N submissions in your area, please pick m of these". That will let the PMC's pick within their area while the conference as a whole can find the balance between

Re: Edit the ApacheCon Banner on Website

I see Denver. Probably you have some browser caching issues and aren't really seeing the current state of the page. It is also possible that there is caching in the network somewhere and a significant number of people are seeing the old content. Can you force a complete reload of the page? If y

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

I have to say one of the most fun conferences I have ever attended was the third ALife conference. They had a lego play area for children attending. Happily, very few children were there which allowed the rest of us to spend many hours building responsive bots. Balancing sticks. Orienting respo

Re: Apache Event Calendar

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > I see that http://hadoopsummit.org/amsterdam/ isn't listed, for example - >> is this by design, or just got overlooked? >> > > Did they get the third party event branding nod? If so, whoever gave the > approval used to be supposed to add it to t

Re: ApacheCon w/ infant - logistics

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > If anything, babies tend to adapt more easily than > their parents. > *some* babies do. Some don't.

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM, jan i wrote: > On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits wrote: > > > Rich, > > > > How about drop shipments directly from the publishing party, if they can > > handle that? That way no inventory would be required. > > > > With OFBiz The ASF can take the ordersin (

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

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: A maturity model for Apache projects

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 >

Re: GitHub pages for git based Apache projects (Was: Re: Managing zyz.apache.org (was RE: WELCOME to dev@community.apache.org))

Apache Drill has been doing something like this for some time. They use Jekyll from Github to render markdown as HTML and then commit the HTML to SVN to that pubsub carries it to the right places. By doing this in the gh-pages branch of their git repo, the get the side effect that they can use Gi

Re: GitHub pages for git based Apache projects (Was: Re: Managing zyz.apache.org (was RE: WELCOME to dev@community.apache.org))

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Ted Dunning > wrote: > > ...Apache Drill has been doing something like this for some time. They > use > > Jekyll from Github to render markdown as HTML and then co

Re: GitHub Pages

Several projects are using Jekyll to emulate the github style site processing. As an example: http://drill.apache.org/ THis is still a bit inconvenient in that the gh-pages branch has to be built using jekyll and then checked into SVN, but it does work pretty easily. The process pretty much has

Re: GitHub Pages

I think those other comments about Jekyll had to do with keeping all of the site storage on apache servers. There have been objections in this thread about using github.io based sites even with site name masquerading. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2015, at 14:36, Christopher wrote: > >

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > The example of I gave with Brett -- clearly the ASF community was the > one bestowing that title. Now, quite contrary to the semantics game that > Ross > was playing with 'what is an official title anyway?' -- I'd say that > at that point

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

Ideally and aspirationally, that is true. Practically speaking, definitely not true. On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Once again, the ASF makes no distinction between code and other > contributions. > > Sent from Windows Mail >

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

there is no distinction. That's why I'm challenging > the distinction Roman is making in his question here. > > Ross > > -Original Message- > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 10:53 PM > To: dev@community.apache.or

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > We don't have to accept that projects often fail to recognize some kinds > of merit. > I like that!

Re: GitHub Pages

Chris, The easy summary is that Apache would like to keep apache sites being served by apache controlled hardware. Github serving pages fails that test. On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Christopher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > > > I

Re: GitHub Pages

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Is it really necessary for our web pages to be served from Apache > hardware? If so, why? > > I understand why we want to control the canonical source, but do we really > need to own web server? >

Re: GitHub Pages

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:55 AM, David Nalley wrote: > SSL > Specifically - apache.org sites are in https-everywhere. Those sites > can't provide SSL. > Very good point. > > None of the current TLP web sites are being served from Apache > hardware though - it's all VMs in 2-3 different cloud p

Re: GitHub Pages

that we > could not easily switch to another host. > > > > Ross > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:40 AM > > To: dev@community.apache.org > > Subject: Re

Re: Veto! Veto?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > It is sometimes the case that the individual, with power in the community, > can't work with another 'in his eyes difficult' person. > > If his contributions are beneficial to the project, if others in the > project can work with that second

Re: Veto! Veto?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > I am not talking about the consensus aspect in the principles of the ASF. > Everybody agrees that it is (one of) the first and foremost principle(s) of > the ASF. And I expect, like everybody else, that every contributor works > towards that

Re: Veto! Veto?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > The board, and comdev, will say "here's how we think things should go", > > but there's a lot of room between a mature project like httpd, where > > someone has 20 years worth of

Re: Google Code shutting down Jan 2016

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > Do please consider that all the world cannot use Maven just as all the > world is not written in Java. > Lately, it appears that the fraction of the world that can use maven or a cache of maven is pretty large. Even our very finicky financi

Re: Integrating JavaX

Stefan, Here is the email that I sent to general@ a few days ago. Didn't realize that you weren't subscribed. Note that I have bcc'ed the community development list and added gene...@incubator.apache.org We should continue the discussion there. You might like to subscribe so that replies made

Re: Fw: Is https://projects-new.apache.org/ ready for prime time?

The label on the second pie graph is broken. It refers to language (cut and paste from the first caption, I think). On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Sally Khudairi wrote: > So ...we've had a tweet from Roman last month, and now JimJag (bcc'd) has > done so as well > > https://twitter.com/jim

Re: WSO2Con USA 2015 - Media sponsorship

No thanks. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Ishara Naotunna wrote: > Hi there > > I'm Ishara, from the organizing team of WSO2Con at WSO2. > Wanted > to drop a quick note about possible Media partnership opportunities for our > upcoming conference, WSO2con USA which is scheduled to take place on

Re: GitHub Pages

t; > dependencies), or is docker images like jekyll/jekyll making things > > easier? > > > > > > > > > >> On 3 August 2015 at 15:58, Owen O'Malley wrote: > >>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Ted Dunning > wrote: > >>> > >>> Several p

Re: slack

I use slack for work. The Apache Mahout project has been using it as well. There is a huge danger of off-list discussions that go unreported (as with IRC, but seemingly more so because of a better interface and easier access to one-on-one conversations). The problem is not the tool itself or the

Re: Storm / Heron

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Andy Flosdorf wrote: > In the past 18 months, our organization has undertaken a project utilizing > Apache Storm. However, we’ve recently learned that Twitter has replaced > Storm with Heron. > > > > Are there any resources that discuss this transition by Twitter

Re: Passion and vigilance in open source

Jim, Is that really happening? Is the fun leaving? Or is it we are all just getting old and are forgetting the child-like wonder? On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Some of you may know that I've started a Vlog series on Youtube > around some topics I find interesting,

Re: My VIP application

The Apache software foundation builds open source software that is used by many companies in the world. This Apache software is not the application that is causing you problems. The company you are dealing with has additional software to handle payments. That software has nothing to do with Apache

Re: My VIP application

gt; > Am 07.10.2015 16:29 schrieb "Ted Dunning" : > Branko, He seems harmless enough. The occasional non-sequitur. No flame bait.

Re: [reporter] Confusing PMC/Committeer/Committee/LDAP report format

Yay to that! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:27, Sam Ruby wrote: > > I'm working slowly on making the roster tool read/write so that it can > be used instead of the Perl scripts and editing committee-info.txt > directly. The idea is that adding an existing committer to the PMC > s

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

Ted, It is not clear that what you want to happen is not happening. There does seem to be an open discussion. Here and elsewhere. What exactly do you want to happen? What good thing is not happening? What bad thing is happening? Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2015, at 17:58, Ted Liu wr

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

I was a mentor on kylin and worried about English being a problem for contribution. The real problem is that apache is partially defined by the use of English to allow as wide a participation as possible. What do you think about creating a parallel organization that uses chinese in the same

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

Ross, How do you square opposition to a separate china org with the irreconcilable needs to maintain English as the language of apache with the need to allow non-English speaking Chinese speakers to participate? I can't. To the extent that it is possible, I encourage English capable people

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

Ted I think apache can help you with some needs, but not all. Apache is enthusiastic about helping people interact with our English-centric mailing lists. Apache would likely help you figure out how to set up Chinese language open source projects as well. I don't understand if that is what

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

Ted, My further comments are in-line. Your explanation is helping understand what your goals are. On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > Hi Ted, Yes, we want to establish a bridge or a group (if the idea of > "China Community" seemed to be intimidating or crazy) to help more devs >

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

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > p.s. The reason why a Wechat public account is a big plus because it is > used by 500M Wechat chatters on daily basis to acquire/learn information. > This is a very effective China-specific scenario. > Note that you can use ANY channel or medium

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

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > My apologies if misunderstood from Ted Dunning's earlier comment: " I was > a mentor on kylin and worried about English being a problem for > contribution. The real problem is that apache is partially defined by the > use of English to allow as w

Re: Request for a mentor

Check out the following projects: Singa (this would be very good because it is pretty cutting edge and is in incubation) Mahout (especially the Samsara portion) Spark (especially the MLLib sub-projec

Re: Want to find more contributors for your Apache project?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > For newcomers, might it be better to point them at ponymail? It's a bit > more "modern" and "user friendly" than the venerable mod-mbox... > > https://pony-poc.apache.org/list.html?dev@community.apache.org > Is it production?

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 1

Sharan, One possible explanation of an under-representation problem (assuming we have one ... you point out rightly that we should measure first) is that *other* factors have given the impression that open source communities are unfriendly. For instance, I could imagine that the recent Gamergate

Re: Distributing ASF Material

I find the proposed situation very distasteful. Hortonworks marketing and sales efforts have traditionally been oriented around on claiming effective control over Apache projects (tag lines like "We do Hadoop" can easily be canted to "WE do Hadoop" and historically it has been). In the past, it has

Re: Distributing ASF Material

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Alan Gates wrote: > I would like to add some context to Ted’s complaint. If he is talking > about the incident that I think he is, it happened years before Hortonworks > was founded. (I wasn’t there, but I have heard the story from those who > were.) He was at

Re: Healthcare Open Source Technology Request

Kate, To add a bit to what Bertrand says, it is likely that there is a bit of a gulf between what Apache expects new communities to be and do and what you might come up with from first principles or raw expectations. That said, your suggested projects could be really valuable and they might very

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Peter West wrote: > Why does the ASF give a tinker’s damn about diversity? Why are scarce > resources being devoted to it? Seriously. > These are volunteer resources. They are not your resources. They aren't the ASF's resources. Why does ASF spend scarce resour

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Peter West wrote: > The ASF has free software, freely produced by anyone who wants to put his > or her hand up. Talk about “diversity” is deeply divisive, and all of the > BS that accompanies it is the antithesis of freedom. It is the impulse of > petty totalita

Re: Hello

Andrew, I would be happy to help with this directly. What do you need/want? On Jan 21, 2017 4:28 PM, "Andrew Palumbo" wrote: > Hello, > > > I sent an email yesterday regarding swag for Meetups, etc to this list, > thinking that it was an Apache list that was devoted specifically to that > type

Re: Hello

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > So yeah I'm not sure what is available, but a little swag goes a long way. > I may have some Mahout stickers. Let me look about. I definitely have Drill and Myriad stickers. Let me know if you want some. I personally don't have anything

Re: Hello

ickers > Andrew had made up. Thanks very Much though! Much appreciated. Like i > said, a little swag goes a long way- I have a phone charger in my wife's > car from the Big Data Everywhere Event in NYC last summer [image: 😊] > > > Thanks again! > > > Andy > --

Re: Use of MD5 and SHA1 for download verification

SHA1 and MD5 have been individually compromised, but a combined hash has not been. Regardless, Sebb's comment that hashes are worthless for authentication and tamper-detection is spot-on. You have to look to trusted signatures for that. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Mike Lissner < mliss...@

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

Yeah... I twitched when I saw that. My suspicion is that this is being used in the ancient, pre-nazi sense. It is hard to believe that somebody is ignorant of the impact it must have on some readers. On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Christopher wrote: > Hi all, > > It is surprising to me tha

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message > From: Ted Dunning > Date: 01/31/2017 3:50 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Profile photos and ASF values > > Yeah... I twitched when I saw that. > > My sus

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

s or more moderate political statements that many may > agree > > > with, say recent elections in the world or outbreaks of war. We should > > not > > > be involved, I think we are even obliged by Law to not be involved. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Nic

Re: Using Solr/Lucene to provide our own site search?

Sounds like a roadmap more than a focus, but otherwise good. On Mar 29, 2017 6:46 AM, "Shane Curcuru" wrote: > Wow, so there are folks interested! Great discussion, and good point: > projects that span projects or are working on broader community aspects > need clear definitions to keep dispara

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

I hear it as the voice of (occasionally bitter) experience. It could easily be my own voice as well. I have found in my own limited experience that communities who pay attention to minority voices to be far better at producing real consensus. I have also found that people with a majority-rules opi

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

s from getting a say in a > project. > > The raised problem of community disharmony is not served with vetoes, > AFAICT. > > > > On Apr 4, 2017 14:06, "Ted Dunning" wrote: > > I hear it as the voice of (occasionally bitter) experience. > > It could eas

Re: Contribute as a company

Well, articles like that and the related FUD are one of the major reasons why Apache takes the "individuals do the work" tack. Quite frankly, if you really intend to share, then moaning when others take you at your word is pretty sad. Better to share with open hands. Or don't. Make up your mind a

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

Raphael, Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits donations to support OO development and QA work? On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice > Developer list. > > It i

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > The challenge that is unique to OpenOffice as you are well aware is >> the fact that >> it is both a product and a project. >> > > It's a bit provocative. What would happened if we drop the product, but > don't retire as a project. Could

Re: Contribute as a company

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, William Li wrote: > If there are ways to check contributions by companies, it could be a > win-win for both the individuals and the companies who are sponsoring. > It could be a win if Apache were interested in being a pay-for-play sort of foundation. We aren't

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

Since this suggestion is to mixed open/closed lists, I have moved all emails except dev@comm.a.o to bcc. I also trimmed vats of details from the original email. I think that this is a very cool idea and would be happy to raise some funds for it, perhaps for snacks or Mate. I would also love to a

Re: experiences with Office of Open Source Practice

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: > Finally, out of respect for the "members only" point of this list, > please let me know if I'm allowed to share your response off list with my > mgmt. > Is this list members only? That would be unusual for a dev@ mailing list at A

Re: Does anyone actively maintain PMC RDF files?

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > > !-- This should be taken from the PMC board resolution --> > > It seems simple for Whimsy to store a single JSON of all TLPs and their > charters by directly sucking it out of passed board resolutions as part > of the finalization of a b

Re: Introducing code owners

I think that it is great for projects to use multiple mechanisms to ensure quick review. This is a fine mechanism. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Phil Sorber wrote: > Aside from the strong "owner" language, do you think this is a bad idea? > Seems like picking some default reviewers to look a

Re: Open Source Document (& CAD) Control

That really depends on what you need. I have heard the same question be answered by git. Or another time when that was totally implausible. Say a bit more about your users and what they need. On Jul 28, 2017 6:58 AM, "Matt Morris" wrote: > Hello, is anyone aware of a highly functional Document

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