Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: >> I personally think that the exit criteria are good as they are (in >> hindsight, Abdera is a good example of a project that graduated with >> barely enough diversity of active

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Jukka, > Not so sure... because that dist may contain code that we may not allow. Personally I'd be happy with a plan from the Subversion team that shows how they're going to address any issues that may be raised in the review. BR,

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> My point above was the Board, at least in the past(*), has *not* been >> happy about the average duration. > > The way I see it, there are three main things we could do to shorten > the

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
What happen to this release? The links in this post are no longer valid, and the Download page http://incubator.apache.org/wink/downloads.html shows no sign of a 1.0-incubating release... Cheers Niclas On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Nicholas Gallardo wrote: > The Wink community has voted on

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: > >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. > > That would a

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 22:41, Ralph Goers wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 21:09, Ralph Goers >> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: >>>

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Ralph Goers
On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 21:09, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >> On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >>> There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: >>> >>> * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.o

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 22:17, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 21:09, Ralph Goers wrote: >... >> I am fine with doing everything as if this was a TLP with the two exceptions >> that 1) the main page should say it is still in incubation 2) it is still >> under the umbrella of the IPM

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 21:09, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: >> >> * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org >> * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather than

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Ralph Goers
On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: > > * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org > * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather than /incubator/subversion/ > > We are hoping to minimize over

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Greg Stein > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 2:54:28 PM > Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: > [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:35, Joe Schaefer wrote: > >... > >

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:35, Joe Schaefer wrote: >... >> Neither 1.6.6 nor the upcoming 1.6.7 are Apache-branded releases. The >> input that I received was that that was insufficient -- a branded >> release was necessary. > > I haven't seen that discussion, but unless you actually poll gene...@i

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Greg Stein > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 1:58:28 PM > Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: > [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 16:39, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > -

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Craig L Russell
On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all. The Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan to. That would a completely n

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-10 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
contrib/ has been removed from the packaging scripts, and won't ship with 1.7. In other news, the box that builds the nightly tarballs is back online, albeit with a new disk, so it'll take me a day or two to get it back up. When it does, I'll point people there, and you can see what a typical t

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
Dims: Exactly. The svn devs have been talking off/on what to do about contrib/ for nearly a year. Various options: simply toss it and wait for people to cry and do something to fix it; somehow get it all relicensed (one of the contributors already said "no"); etc etc. Current consensus seems to b

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 16:39, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: Jukka Zitting >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 1:25:40 PM >> Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was:   >> [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) >>

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-10 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jukka, Not so sure... because that dist may contain code that we may not allow. Greg, Is there any code in there that is not Apache compatible? i see some in the contrib section... http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn-clean thanks, dims On 11/10/2009 04:25 PM, Jukka Zi

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Jukka Zitting > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 1:25:40 PM > Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: > [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) > > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Greg Stein wrote

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > Unfortunately, some documentation needs to be brought in sync. > > See: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#checklist I'm nitpicking, but even there we only ask the podlings to "demonstrate ability to create Apache releases"

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
(i'm really short of time ATM so apologies in advance if i'm very slow to respond) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:11, William A. Rowe Jr. > wrote: >> Greg Stein wrote: >>> >>> The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of >

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Now that you have explained :) +1 from me. -- dims On 11/10/2009 02:43 PM, Greg Stein wrote: LOL Well... the problem is that an "svn mv" from /incubator/subversion/ to /subversion/ introduces an artificial breakage in the history. It is actually quite disruptive for tracking history (which is

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Kevan Miller
On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather than /incubator/ subversion/ We are hoping to minimize overall disr

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
LOL Well... the problem is that an "svn mv" from /incubator/subversion/ to /subversion/ introduces an artificial breakage in the history. It is actually quite disruptive for tracking history (which is very important to us). (and yes, because of that history issue, I personally have no problem put

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
The project status will stay there and be maintained as long as we're incubating. That's my initial draft to get it into the system. I need to spend more time with it (but have spent time getting other discussions/tasks "into the pipeline"). I'm just about out of that stuff, so will go update that

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Personally i am ok with #1, but i am not sure if "svn switch --relocate" too much of a burden for you guys :) On 11/10/2009 02:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org * placing the

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Deepal jayasinghe
How about the website ? (I can not find any information about the project, mentors, committers etc.. ) http://incubator.apache.org/projects/subversion.html -Deepal > There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: > > * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 14:23, Garrett Rooney wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann > wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato >> wrote: >> >>> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >>> Subversion community has never rele

Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather than /incubator/subversion/ We are hoping to minimize overall disruption to the community with a move to incubator space

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: > >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. > > That would a

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
Consider this withdrawn for now. I'll resubmit when we think we're nearing time for graduation. Cheers, -g On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:17, Greg Stein wrote: > Hello IPMC, > > The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make > a release before graduation. > > As we understand

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Greg Stein > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 11:00:07 AM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for > Incubator graduation > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:54, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > - Orig

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Davanum Srinivas
I agree with the following, i don't think a waiver is needed right now... > "This is a graduation issue, why can't it just wait > until then and say in the graduation proposal there's not been a > release but its not necessary because of x y z." thanks, dims On 11/10/2009 01:49 PM, ant elder wr

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:51, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >> Hello IPMC, >> >> The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make >> a release before graduation. >> >> As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:54, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: Luciano Resende >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:51:44 AM >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for   >> Incubator graduation >> >>

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Daniel Kulp
Before graduation, I expect ALL podlings to, at some point, present the Incubator PMC with some artifacts that the podling community feels meets the Apache legal requirements. I don't care if said artifacts are a "release" or a nightly snapshot or a one off, but I expect to see such artifact

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Luciano Resende > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:51:44 AM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for > Incubator graduation > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > > Hell

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > Hello IPMC, > > The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make > a release before graduation. > > As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to > demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF.

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > I have no idea why the term "Board" even comes up in your response. > What's that got to do with my problems with the IPMC attempting to > impose make-work on the svn podling? Because when you post to a broad-list such as general@, you are communicating to all incubating podlin

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > Hello IPMC, > > The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make > a release before graduation. > > As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to > demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF.

Re: [VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > > The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make > a release before graduation. > > As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to > demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF. > Packaging, licensing, signing, placement int

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: William A. Rowe Jr. >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:08:40 AM >> Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: >> [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) > >> Greg wrote: >>> Look

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: > > I do not believe the project wants to be in the business of providing > binaries and we have an existing ecosystem of people that are > providing them successfully. As long as non-committer artifacts aren't hosted here, that is no trouble. If nobody on SVN wants to create

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: > > Wait a minute. Are you implying that the "project" *should* release > binaries? Wouldn't such a requirement apply to, say, APR, to keep this > close to home? s/should/may/ Greg pointed out I make win32 binaries and these are not mandated, I do so only because I trusted th

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
I have no idea why the term "Board" even comes up in your response. What's that got to do with my problems with the IPMC attempting to impose make-work on the svn podling? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:03, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:59, William A. Ro

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:02, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> We're making a 1.6.7 release in the next 2-3 weeks, as I stated >> before. The Incubator can see how that works (I also gave pointers to >> 1.6.6). > > +1 Since Subversion release p

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:11, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> >> The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of >> releases as it pleases. The three +1 rule was developed to show that >> the PMC is "in charge" of the release, and is therefore legally liable

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: William A. Rowe Jr. > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 10:08:40 AM > Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: > [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) > Greg wrote: > > Look at the context. Being asked to t

[VOTE] Request for Waiver of "Make a Release" requirement for Incubator graduation

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
Hello IPMC, The Subversion podling would like a waiver of the requirement to make a release before graduation. As we understand this requirement, it is present in order to demonstrate to the podling how releases are made at the ASF. Packaging, licensing, signing, placement into the distrubtion/mi

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > > The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of > releases as it pleases. The three +1 rule was developed to show that > the PMC is "in charge" of the release, and is therefore legally liable > for it. The IPMC can do whatever it likes around releases, as

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:48, William A. Rowe, Jr. > wrote: > >> Quite frankly, all svncorp releases could, with reasonable documentation >> [read: mailing list archives, CLA's and code grant] be licensed as ASF >> releases under the AL 2.0, irrespective of their internal ar

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:59, William A. Rowe, Jr. > wrote: >> Greg Stein wrote: >>> >>> Podlings should be shepherded *out* rather than held *in*. >> Hmmm... here you go again. Do you really believe there's a mentor here >> who doesn't want to be 'done' with their task at h

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > We're making a 1.6.7 release in the next 2-3 weeks, as I stated > before. The Incubator can see how that works (I also gave pointers to > 1.6.6). +1 Since Subversion release procedures already meet most Apache policies, reviewing any past

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Mark Phippard wrote: >> >> I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could >> provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL >> compatible code.  Basically, you just need to build without Neon,

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Branko Čibej
William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Mark Phippard wrote: > >> I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could >> provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL >> compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB >> and libintl support. Of

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: > > As an SVN committer, I can say that this is not something that is of > concern to me (and I dare say I probably speak for all or at least > most of the other committers when I say that). Thanks for that reassurance... > Finally, I will also add that we have had our SVN C

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Mark Phippard wrote: > > I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could > provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL > compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB > and libintl support. Of the three, the only thing an Eclips

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:23, Kevan Miller wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >... >> And that is exactly what I'd like to do. But when the Incubator >> *imposes* requirements of release that does not meet the project's own >> quality guidelines, for an audience of zero, the

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:22, Leo Simons wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >... >> The IPMC is in charge of its operation. It can redefine the rules of >> releases as it pleases. The three +1 rule was developed to show that >> the PMC is "in charge" of the release, and

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Shanti Subramanyam
I like Leo's proposal. With PMC members mentoring multiple projects, it is really a burden to try and get 3 votes for a release. Shanti Leo Simons wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:07, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Leo Simons wrote:

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > Igor Burilo wrote: >> Michael, sure Neon and Serf are optional and it’s absolutely correct from >> the legal point of view. But in this case SVN should work without DAV >> support, which is important for end-users. >> >> When we talk about li

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: > >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. > > That would a

How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > My point above was the Board, at least in the past(*), has *not* been > happy about the average duration. The way I see it, there are three main things we could do to shorten the average duration of incubation: 1) Relax the exit criteria:

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Branko Čibej
Igor Burilo wrote: > C. Michael Pilato wrote: > >>> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern. But I could >>> use an education about why this particular case matters. We currently >>> > ship > >>> Neon in a separate tarball from Subversion's core code for the conv

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:29, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: > >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. > > That would a co

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato > wrote: > >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all. The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. > > That would a

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:16, Blair Zajac wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >>> ... >>> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern.  But I could >>> use an education about why this particular c

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:07, William A. Rowe, Jr. > wrote: >> Leo Simons wrote: >>> >>> Here's what I understand: >>> >>> 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must be made by PMCs >>> 2) Apache rule: a release needs at least 3 binding +1s and

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The > Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan > to. That would a completely new philosophy for an Apache project, which always aimed v

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Kevan Miller
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:48, William A. Rowe, Jr. > wrote: Greg Stein wrote: The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings how to work here at Apache. I'm a little confused. I'm reading a really long rant here, but

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >>> ... >>> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern. But I could >>> use an education about why this particula

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Blair Zajac
On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> ... >> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern. But I could >> use an education about why this particular case matters. We currently ship >> Neon in a separate tarba

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Igor Burilo
C. Michael Pilato wrote: > >>I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern. But I could >>use an education about why this particular case matters. We currently ship >>Neon in a separate tarball from Subversion's core code for the convenience >>of our users, but if that's a probl

Re: Adding Paul Querna as committer to Traffic Server

2009-11-10 Thread Sander Striker
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > On Nov 5, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> the Traffic Server podling "PMC" has deliberated hard, and we've decided >>> that it's best for everyone

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:07, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: >> >> Here's what I understand: >> >> 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must be made by PMCs >> 2) Apache rule: a release needs at least 3 binding +1s and more +1s than -1s >> 3) from #1 and #2 it follows that all inc

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:59, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Yup. And I'll note that that "limbo" you describe has been an issue >> with the Board for a long while now. That is why the Board instructed >> the IPMC to request all podlings to list two items in their reports:

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:48, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings >> how to work here at Apache. > > I'm a little confused.  I'm reading a really long rant here, but I expect > if you look at what nearly all men

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > The binaries doesn't matter, Apache releases source code, licensed under > Apache license v2.0. And we only distribute certain licensed dependencies. > > As Greg said, we need to provide solutions that does not force downstream > users into

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
The binaries doesn't matter, Apache releases source code, licensed under Apache license v2.0. And we only distribute certain licensed dependencies. As Greg said, we need to provide solutions that does not force downstream users into the (L)GPL world. So, a project that requires these dependencies

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:23 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Sponsors >>  * Champion: Greg Stein > > Cool > >>  * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel >> Rall > > Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads').

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:06, Leo Simons wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. > wrote: >> Greg Stein wrote: >>> >>> Sponsors >>>  * Champion: Greg Stein >> >> Cool >> >>>  * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel >>> Rall >> >> Once ag

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:23, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >... >>  * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel >> Rall > > Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads'). > It puts certain committers above others, an inequitable situation.

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >>... >> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern.  But I could >> use an education about why this particular case matters.  We currently ship >> Neon in a separate ta

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >... > I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern.  But I could > use an education about why this particular case matters.  We currently ship > Neon in a separate tarball from Subversion's core code for the convenience > of

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread C. Michael Pilato
Igor Burilo wrote: > > C. Michael Pilato wrote: >>> Our goal is to bring our Serf integration up to the quality (in terms of >>> both user experience and proper API adherence) of our Neon one so that > Serf >>> can safely become the new default DAV RA implementation, yes. It's mostly >>> there, b

Re: Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Sponsors >>  * Champion: Greg Stein > > Cool > >>  * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel >> Rall > > Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads').

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > ...I am seeking a > waiver of the "make a release" "requirement". And you can simply wait > for me to send that, rather than continuing to speculate about whether > I'm going to rely on seniority or on experience I like that - at first, the

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Igor Burilo
C. Michael Pilato wrote: > >>Our goal is to bring our Serf integration up to the quality (in terms of >>both user experience and proper API adherence) of our Neon one so that Serf >>can safely become the new default DAV RA implementation, yes. It's mostly >>there, but still contains a few gotch

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > ...Let me put it another way: if the IPMC accepts a proposal with one > mentor, then I'm fine with that one mentor acting on behalf of the > IPMC without the need to constantly go back to the IPMC for approval I see your point, and th

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Leo Simons wrote: > > Here's what I understand: > > 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must be made by PMCs > 2) Apache rule: a release needs at least 3 binding +1s and more +1s than -1s > 3) from #1 and #2 it follows that all incubator releases must be made > by the incubator PMC > If you see

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > Would a waiver be possible for Diversity (large project dominated by 1 > or 2 vendors)? For the minimum required binding votes (small > communities of 2 committers)? Such things have been requested, and granted in the past, based on the demonstrated ability of the proj

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > > Yup. And I'll note that that "limbo" you describe has been an issue > with the Board for a long while now. That is why the Board instructed > the IPMC to request all podlings to list two items in their reports: > > 1) when did you arrive? > 2) what is left? > > Specifically

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Schaefer wrote: > >> From: Justin Erenkrantz >> >> Let me put it another way: if the IPMC accepts a proposal with one >> mentor, then I'm fine with that one mentor acting on behalf of the >> IPMC without the need to constantly go back to the IPMC for approval. >> -- justin > > For non-releas

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Martijn Dashorst > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz >> wrote: >>> To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and >>> necessary for graduation - not the IPMC as a whole. >> Nope... The whole I

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings > how to work here at Apache. I'm a little confused. I'm reading a really long rant here, but I expect if you look at what nearly all mentors do in their respective podlings, this is exactly what they provi

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > > The Subversion project would like to join the Apache Software > Foundation to remove the overhead of having to run its own > corporation. The Subversion project is already run quite like an > Apache project, and already counts a number of ASF Members amongst > its committer

Side Discussion; Mentorship [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: > > Sponsors > * Champion: Greg Stein Cool > * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel > Rall Once again, caution against committers == mentors (== 'project leads'). It puts certain committers above others, an inequitable situation. If the

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Craig L Russell wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 at 14:12 -0800: > Hi Greg, > > I'm afraid that you have totally mistranslated my message and I have no idea > why. > > I'm not trying to pick a fight. > > I'm trying to be reasonable. > > I don't perceive your reaction as positive. > > I'm not going to