Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 4/22/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The three independent committers rule is an absolute minimum > based on the legal fact that US employees are required to be > loyal to their full-time employer *even* when we know the people > involved are beyond question, independently minde

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 4/22/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we should look for an additional metric for community health and > diversity for next time. It could be in addition to the "rule of 3", > but I think this example shows where we can improve things to help > ensure healthy communiti

RE: [OT] Derby internals

2005-04-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > > Pity my Derby internals proposal was rejected by Apachecon Europe :-) > Would you consider doing it as a BOF if you will be there? > I would like to attend it! +1 --- Noel - To unsubscr

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Apr 22, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: I have no doubt that Derby can and will reach that level soon while staying inside the incubator. Meanwhile, continued moves to give Derby special treatment are NOT APPROPRIATE. I don't think that there is a move to give "special treatment", at

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Brian Behlendorf wrote: > If there really is still just one outside committer, then in my opinion > the community has not yet passed that test; and rather than coding, > those who care about that project should be advocating its existance to > others, giving presentations at conferences, Pity my

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Well... the three committer rule is (although there are exceptions for corner cases...), but we have a bit of dissonance between how we are defining "independent committer" here (http://incubato

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Well... the three committer rule is (although there are exceptions for corner cases...), but we have a bit of dissonance between how we are defining "independent committer" here (http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/ Incubation_Policy.html#Minimu

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Jeremy Boynes
Brian Behlendorf wrote: It's not so much "dissonance" as an exception. In an incubating project, the developers are usually new to the ASF, and skipped the meritocracy step by virtue of association with the project before it entered Apache ("here's the list of committers"). Therefore it's reas

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Roy T. Fielding wrote: [snip] > We have the same problems as Derby within the Jackrabbit project, > though not only did we *start* with a far more diverse set of > committers, we actively encouraged new folks to take responsibility > for their own contributions. Nevertheless, it is quite clear to

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Apr 22, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: It's not so much "dissonance" as an exception. In an incubating project, the developers are usually new to the ASF, and skipped the meritocracy step by virtue of association with the project before it entered Apache ("here's the list of commi

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Jean T. Anderson
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Brian Behlendorf wrote: It's not so much "dissonance" as an exception. In an incubating project, the developers are usually new to the ASF, and skipped the meritocracy step by virtue of association with the project before it entered Apache ("here's the list of committers"

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
On Apr 22, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Here's an idea -- how about encouraging a couple Derby developers to participate in Jackrabbit (it is a database API after all) and then convince some of the Jackrabbit developers to participate on performance tuning Derby when used within a CMS.

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote: I personally don't see this problem with Derby, all Derby design decisions seem to be happening on the list. So I'm not sure if Jackrabbit and Derby have the same problems. How can you know? I know the amount of progress that we are making

[OT] Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Brian McCallister
On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Pity my Derby internals proposal was rejected by Apachecon Europe :-) Would you consider doing it as a BOF if you will be there? I would like to attend it! -Brian - To uns

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Apr 22, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Leo Simons wrote: On 22-04-2005 13:47, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: ... I'd love to see what some people think about the community - go look at the lists. That is what I looked at first, and it gav

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > I think it has a diverse community. However, I don't think we have any > good way of measuring that, or if things like the following are > quantitatively meaningful. We can look at dev mail list traffic, info > taken from ey

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Leo Simons
On 22-04-2005 13:47, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: >> ... > I'd love to see what some people think about the community - go look at > the lists. That is what I looked at first, and it gave me confidence. Derby seems to be doi

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: On 4/18/05, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Brian Behlendorf wrote: Wouldn't "how can we increase the number of new developers on Derby while still in incubation" a better question to ask? I th