Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On 3/19/07, J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apache Labs isn't appropriate for his effort, since it seems that he wants > to build a new community, which will not be exclusively existing Committers. Funny, because I would still recommen

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 3/18/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi George, I'm not in a position to either approve or veto your release, but without anyone in Apache signing your pgp key it looks bad. Not really: * Even if the key is signed by an ASF committer, or two (or ten), there is no guarantee

Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 3/19/07, J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...Funny, because I would still recommend labs, at least for a from-scratch effort... Agreed: labs are a good way to build an initial group of interested people, which can then work together on a proposal for the incubator. Only ASF committe

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
[+1] Accept Tika as a new podling -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [VOTE] Should we treat incubator releases differently to normal releases

2007-03-18 Thread Tony Ambrozie
Should Incubator tarballs go in the normal place (and thus mirrors). + 1 (non-binding) Should there be an Incubator maven repository. -1 (non-binding) I do not believe that users will just use artifacts in ignorance of the the respective projects' incubator status just because those artifacts hap

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Brett Porter
On 18/03/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [X] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling [ ] -1 Do not accept the new podling (provide reason, please) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Jukka Zitting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please vote on the proposal that follows. The vote is open for the > next 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator PMC are binding. [X] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling Good luck! -- jaaron --

Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Davanum Srinivas wrote: >> Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I would like to start a new project in the incubator. >> > It will be a from scratch effort, and I have some friends who are >> > eager to help out. >> please see http://labs.a

Re: [VOTE] Should we treat incubator releases differently to normal releases

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two parts to the vote: > > ONE: Should Incubator tarballs go in the normal place (and thus mirrors). YES (+1) Assuming "normal place" means something like dist/incubator not /dist/{podling} > TWO: Should there be an Incubator maven repository. +0

Re: Difference between Maven repository and dist directory

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Craig McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is everyone in ASF willing to be comfortable with the ASF stamp of > approval on a project that might still be in the process of vetting > code provenance, or still checking licenses, but chooses to do an > incubating release anyway? No, of course

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Niclas, > > Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer > and regular releases. Then they shouldn't have regular releases. I think Niclas's suggestions on community requirements for releases are fine, particularly for podl

Re: Killing the incubator m2 repository

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #1) End user using an Incubator podling m2 artifact directly: End > users need to specify our repo in their pom.xml explicity. this is a > conscious decision. > > #2) End user using a regular Apache project that depends on incubator > podling artifa

Re: Killing the incubator m2 repository

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Agreed. Once a release is out the only restrictions we place on it's >> use and distribution should be the ASLv2. > > The Apache License does not give ASF projects carte blanche to > ignore ASF policy. But Jukka is right in t

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
And zero incentive to ever graduate. The point is that we've taken this position because an incubating project ISN'T permitted to operate or publicize as an ASF Project. It's accepted, but the podling is accepted provisionally. Abuse of the Apache name results in ejection of the podling. We see

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Tony Ambrozie
+1 (non-binding) - alignment with existing standards (such as Dublin Core, etc) will be important... On 3/18/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to call the Incubator PMC to vote to incubate the proposed Tika project. I posted the proposal draft for review a while ago

RE: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread George Aroush
Excellent! Thanks to everyone for helping out. I will go ahead and issue a release vote request without requiring my PGP key signed -- for this release. I work in Lexington (for IBM/Rational) Yoav or anyone close by and don't mind meeting up to sign my PGP key, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Yoav Shapira wrote: > I live in the Boston area FWIW, I am here (downtown) until Thursday. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Craig L Russell
Yoav, you are a mensch. Craig On Mar 18, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, George: +1 (binding) to you releasing right away. I live in the Boston area and am always available to meet up, say hi, and sign your PGP key if you so desire. Yoav On 3/18/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Am here too :) unfortunately will be travelling mon/tue. -- dims On 3/18/07, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, George: +1 (binding) to you releasing right away. I live in the Boston area and am always available to meet up, say hi, and sign your PGP key if you so desire. Yoav On 3/

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, George: +1 (binding) to you releasing right away. I live in the Boston area and am always available to meet up, say hi, and sign your PGP key if you so desire. Yoav On 3/18/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi George, I'm not in a position to either approve or veto your rele

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Erik Hatcher
I'll chime in here to lend some support to George and echo what was said earlier on this thread... having others sign your key is not a necessity for making a release (at least within any policies I've seen). Is there such a policy? If not, let's let George move on with the next steps in

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi George, I'm not in a position to either approve or veto your release, but without anyone in Apache signing your pgp key it looks bad. You might try contacting the half-dozen Apache folks in Boston directly by email, or see if anyone on this incubator list is willing to sign your key. B

RE: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread George Aroush
Thanks Craig and all. I don't know anyone in person on the Apache web and unfortunately, I am not attending ApacheCons to meet other folks. So what are my options? The release is ready for a vote and yet I don't know how to make it happen with this issue outstanding!! Erik Hatcher and Doug Cutt

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi George, It would be best if someone already in the Apache web of trust you know personally, or who can meet you in person and verify your bonafides would volunteer to sign your key. There are half a dozen people in the Mass Bay Area according to the map below [1]. By the way, there is

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Marshall Schor
Here's my non-binding +1: [ X ] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling -Marshall Schor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting started with an incubator project

2007-03-18 Thread Upayavira
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Hello. I have a question about getting an outside project into the incubator... I am the project lead for the DataVision project (http://datavision.sourceforge.net), an open-source report writing tool... it may or may not actually be used by the OfBiz project (there s

Getting started with an incubator project

2007-03-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hello. I have a question about getting an outside project into the incubator... I am the project lead for the DataVision project (http://datavision.sourceforge.net), an open-source report writing tool... it may or may not actually be used by the OfBiz project (there seems to be a bit of a ques

Re: [VOTE] Approve release of SCA specification APIs by Tuscany project

2007-03-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 On 3/18/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > > > On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:49 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: > > > >> On 3/13/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [VOTE] Approve release of SCA specification APIs by Tuscany project

2007-03-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/16/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:49 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: > >> On 3/13/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The Tuscany community recently voted to release version 1.0- >>> incuba

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Irregardless of that, the IPMC could stipulate that releases are "final stepping stones" towards graduation, and require an active and diverse community to allow for releases. After all, it is the Incubator that does the release (legally)

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Jeremias Maerki
non-binding +1 from me. On 18.03.2007 10:51:37 Jukka Zitting wrote: > [ ] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling > [ ] -1 Do not accept the new podling (provide reason, please) > Instead of implementing its own document parsers, Tika will use existing > parser libraries like Jakarta POI [1] and PDFBox

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:51, Jukka Zitting wrote: > [ ] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling > [ ] -1 Do not accept the new podling (provide reason, please) +1 Cheers Niclas Hedhman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, On 3/18/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ X ] +1 Accept Tika as a new podling Good luck, Yoav - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 3/18/07, Gwyn Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The critical bit is getting the key fingerprint in a way where the provider's identity can be verified... Somewhat mitigated by listing your fingerprint here [1]. So having your key on a couple of the prominent key servers and listing the fi

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 18 March 2007 21:16, Guillaume Nodet wrote: > I don't think this would be a good idea to not allow one podling > to release anything. See my disclaimer, that I think it is reasonable to allow 'limited' releases. Point is to deter the 'coziness' and force graduation. Cheers Niclas ---

Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 18 March 2007 21:35, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to start a new project in the incubator. > > > It will be a from scratch effort, and I have some friends who are > > > eager to help out. > > > > please s

Re: [VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 Accept Tika as a new podling On 3/18/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to call the Incubator PMC to vote to incubate the proposed Tika project. I posted the proposal draft for review a while ago, and the final proposal text is included below. The only changes in t

Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Serves me right :) i should read the whole email before replying. thanks, dims On 3/18/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to start a new project in the incubator. > > It will be a from scratch effor

RE: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to start a new project in the incubator. > > It will be a from scratch effort, and I have some friends who are > > eager to help out. > please see http://labs.apache.org/ Apache Labs isn't appropriate for his effo

Re: New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
please see http://labs.apache.org/ On 3/18/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to start a new project in the incubator. Technically speaking, there will not be any initial codebase nor any initial committers beyond myself. It will be a from scratch effort, and I ha

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Guillaume Nodet
I don't think this would be a good idea to not allow one podling to release anything. Let me state my thoughts: the goal of a podling is to build a lively and heterogeneous community to be able to graduate. Usually, there is one or more company behind a project. If there are more than one company,

New project by committer...

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Hi, I would like to start a new project in the incubator. Technically speaking, there will not be any initial codebase nor any initial committers beyond myself. It will be a from scratch effort, and I have some friends who are eager to help out. The plan is; 1. Start incubation with myself o

Re: Difference between Maven repository and dist directory

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 17 March 2007 11:40, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > One significant difference between ASF projects and those in the Incubator > is that the ASF projects are communities that have already demonstrated > their ability to operate under ASF policy *and* sustain a development > community. Once

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:54, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > On 3/17/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No community -> no releases ?? > Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer > and regular releases. Sorry, I don't fully follow. I thought you were speaki

[VOTE] Tika - a content analysis toolkit

2007-03-18 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, I would like to call the Incubator PMC to vote to incubate the proposed Tika project. I posted the proposal draft for review a while ago, and the final proposal text is included below. The only changes in the proposal text are the addition of Bertrand Delacretaz as the third mentor and markin

Re: [VOTE] Should we treat incubator releases differently to normal releases

2007-03-18 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On 3/16/07, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ONE: Should Incubator tarballs go in the normal place (and thus mirrors). +1 TWO: Should there be an Incubator maven repository. -1 Rationale ONE: Legally there should be no difference between a TLP and an Incubating release. Addit

Re: Some help with Lucene.Net release

2007-03-18 Thread Gwyn Evans
It's not so much someone else signing it, but rather having a way of proving that a particular person owns a particular key. Here, for instance, how do we know that it's really you that owns the key? See http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/weboftrust.en.html and http://people.apache.org/~henkp/trust/ but it