Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Jukka, I don't like to force "majority result" if there is controversy. Having a couple of -1, and other not voting but practically agreeing with you and Ant, is not the way to go. I think they are as ready as they can get, considering the starting point and the general attitude towards incubated

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niclas Hedhman
I will try to answer it; 1. I think it is an extreme question. If both disappeared tomorrow, I don't think the will to continue exists. If it happens 12 months from now in the Incubator, I think it could go either way. If happens 12 months after graduation, I am pretty sure it sustains. Why do I t

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. True, but that's how I interpret it, for reasons stated earlier in this thread. My -1 in the Pi

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: OK we have a similar example here at the ASF - when Craig McC. left Apache Shale it slowly died - and AFAIK become the first project to join the Attic. So Ceki decides to become a Yak farmer in patagonia and maybe the same thing happens to S

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand >> Delacretaz wrote: >>> >>> In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code >>> listen to the community? >> >> That's

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. Martijn Absolutely right. I'd actually like to see more than 3 people with commit privs (and I think most projects have that). As a mentor I would be look

[appeal] Help JSPWiki Graduate!

2009-08-05 Thread Craig L Russell
Dear Incubator, Taking up Bill Rowe's challenge, it would be great if JSPWiki got some feedback on graduation from the old hands here. From my (mentor) perspective, the project is almost there, still needing to release code under the Apache release process. Summertime is delaying things b

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == > code commits. True, but that's how I interpret it, for reasons stated earlier in this thread. My -1 in the Pivot vote is just a statement of concern based on my int

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Martijn Dashorst
AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. Martijn On Wednesday, August 5, 2009, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >>> We are looking for projects with at le

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> >> On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goers >>> That's why I measure the "three independent committers" criteria by >>

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >> We are looking for projects with at least three independent >> committers, and personally I'm not including inactive committers in >> that count. > > Now you are making hard and fast rules

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: You won't find the second part solely from the commit log. I would expect mentors to be monitoring the dev list. If it is filled with "can you fix this?" then there is a problem. But i

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:23 +0100, Niall Pemberton wrote: > ... >> > Bottom line: activity is hardly measurable since you can be active in >> > the community or in code or both. Being active on the ml is even more >> > important then commi

Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2009-08-05 Thread Janne Jalkanen
*grin* I completely missed this email the first time around. I think JSPWiki would certainly benefit from the attention - we're fairly close to having all the bits and pieces in place (minus a release or two). It's just that we're slightly unsure as to what to do... When I collected the

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > You won't find the second part solely from the commit log. I would expect > mentors to be monitoring the dev list. If it is filled with "can you fix > this?" then there is a problem. But if it also has "why did you do this?", > "can we do th

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goers> wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them lik

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache projects. But even if he did, by these

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Fremantle
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Greg Brown wrote: >> It may be worth noting that Pivot is not technically a "VMware project". >> Todd and I work on Pivot on our own time. We just happen to work for the >> same company.  :-) > > That ce

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-05 Thread ant elder
For the record, I'm -1, i'd like to see a bit more diversity of the active committers to show this is operating as an Apache project should. ...ant On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > Gang, > > Apache Pivot is one of the fastest moving codebases at Apache, and the > Pivot t

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-05 Thread Martijn Dashorst
eryzhikov didn't come with the team afaik, but his commits are from historical imports. Martijn On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten >> Scherler wrote: >> >>> How many committers are in the project? As unde

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community >> perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache >> projects. But even if he did, by these standards the projects

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community > perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache > projects. But even if he did, by these standards the projects might never > make it out of

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/8/5 Ralph Goers : > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand >> Delacretaz wrote: >>> >>> In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code >>> listen to the community? >> >> That's certainly good, but [snip]