Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > So, promote those 20 people to ComDev PMC, promote them to ASF > members, promote them however, my guess is that they *care* about > the foundation; we want these people helping new projects, and they > will continue to help those

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > This is at the root of my proposal to *expect* mentors to have a vested > interest in the success of a project. Every single one of us here shares that *expectation*. What this thread fails to address is a *practically* mechan

Re: Volunteer to Shepherd

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
I think we need to come up with a way to verify the shepherds file is clean. Taylor's entry broke it, due to an extra "," on a line. I know chrome/firefox don't have this issue, but IE does. Maybe IE's using python under the hood for JSON support? X-D John On Fri Dec 19 2014 at 12:33:41 AM Rom

Jan 2015 board report

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
Amidst all of the discussions around the incubator, we do still have a board report due (I guess?). I have not seen a single marvin invite though (I hope it wasn't stricken w/ the twitter bug :-( ). Anyone know what's up with that? Anyways I finished the last of my prior month duties (assigned s

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
:-) Yes, it is shocking that the Ripple project had a number of signed off reports while inappropriate releases were being made. This problem only came to light because the community was considering retirement and some of my day job colleagues wanted me to look at it. In other words, I have a v

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
Ross, I think we're actually on the same page. My point with ripple was not so much that it wasn't bringing it to anyone's attention (in fact the opposite, it's plastered all over the report) but more that a simple checkbox doesn't mean everything's great. John On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 10:59:33 PM

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
John, Actually John I disagree with one of your examples (Ripple). This is actually a case where things have gone as they would expect. The mail you link to is from me. I had previously made the IPMC aware of the issue prior to that email on the mailing list. I was asked if I was undertaking t

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > I'd like to look at this through a lens of failure analysis. How do > podlings fail? I see two main patterns. > > 1. Failure to build a community. These are the podlings that we find > adrift in space with the lights on but no one home on

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 1:26:31 PM Ted Dunning wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament > wrote: > > > > Absolutely not just noise. Take the extra 2 seconds to add your sign > off. > > > > > > > I disagree. Checking a check box is much different than adding > meaningful > > comment

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > If NiFi wants to try this, I'm still happy to write the 'simple' > proposal to the board, and wait upon the board's desires. If the board > members in this thread feel that writing the simple proposal is a > waste of time and energy, I won

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > +1 to everything Ross said below and I monitored that experiment > as well but was unaware of the 3 incidents, etc. > > As for pTLPs and shifting mentorship, etc., I trust Ross’s judgement > but think we need more data on this acro

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
+1 to everything Ross said below and I monitored that experiment as well but was unaware of the 3 incidents, etc. As for pTLPs and shifting mentorship, etc., I trust Ross’s judgement but think we need more data on this across a number of projects before we know definitively what’s the cause of wha

[ANNOUNCE] Hyunsik Choi joins the IPMC

2014-12-30 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! sorry for not sending this out sooner -- holidays got the best of me ;-) I am really happy to welcome an ASF member Hyunsik Choi, who has recently voluteered to join the Incubator PMC! Great to have you on board, Hyunsik! Please make sure to subscribe to the IPMC MLs. Thanks, Roman. -

RE: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
I don't want to fan flames or point fingers, but at the same time I need to say this. Please read it as being intended to be constructive... This whole pTLP thing is not new. We conducted an experiment like the one proposed below some time ago. The outcome of that experiment was supposed to be

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
+1 thanks Benson, totally agree. ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > Thanks Benson - I would suggest using the Incubator wiki if you > need one (but the point about there not being a Board wiki - interesting, > would be nice to have one). > > At the end of the day the resolution would look like a ty

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Thanks Benson - I would suggest using the Incubator wiki if you need one (but the point about there not being a Board wiki - interesting, would be nice to have one). At the end of the day the resolution would look like a typical board resolution after Incubator graduation e.g., “Create Apache X”,

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
I plan to: 1. Ask the nifi community if they want to be experimental subjects. Can't expect IRB approval without it. 2. Write a proposal for the board to read. There are a number of details to worry over. Any suggestions about where to put it? There in no board wiki. Is there? 3. Submit a board

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > > Absolutely not just noise. Take the extra 2 seconds to add your sign off. > > > > I disagree. Checking a check box is much different than adding meaningful > comments, either on mailing lists or on the report itself. > > For example, whic

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > ...what’s also not useful is acting like a proposal that’s existed for > years is something new - it’s been discussed - a simple Google search > yielded hundreds of emails no the topic Besides taking a bit of time to read, hun

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Hi Bertrand, -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 9:30 AM To: Incubator General Subject: Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off >Hi Chris, > >On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mattman

Re: [Proposal] TinkerPop: A Graph Computing Framework

2014-12-30 Thread jan i
On 30 December 2014 at 18:32, Marko Rodriguez wrote: > Hello, > > > It is and was not noise if you got something useful for the proposalwe have this list to discuss things. > > After that, we will iterate on the proposal and the submit it for approval. > Looking very much forward to read t

Re: [Proposal] TinkerPop: A Graph Computing Framework

2014-12-30 Thread Marko Rodriguez
Hello, Apologies for the noise on the list. We have a champion and Dave is working to select mentors he think are best for TinkerPop. After that, we will iterate on the proposal and the submit it for approval. Thank you, Marko. http://markorodriguez.com On Dec 30, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Hadrian Z

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Chris, On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > ...http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorDeconstructionProposal ... Thanks for this, this looks like a good definition of "the experiment". > ...1. the documentation on *what* to do for incoming projects is > alrea

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Marvin, I completely agree with you - to sum it up - my take on your point that Apache has a lot of information and guidelines for new podlings that is somewhat inconsistently brought down to new generations and those after them of incoming projects. Have a mentor that’s a stickler for release cand

Re: [Proposal] TinkerPop: A Graph Computing Framework

2014-12-30 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
I followed the thread and tried to stay away, because there's a lot of potential for noise. If the IPMC were to take a vote on the tinkerpop proposal today it would not pass. At the very least it's incomplete. Engaging in a conversation on this list to finalize it is, imho, not the most produc

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
The problems that you cite were already cited long before (nearly a year) in my proposal to “blow the whole thing up” as you state: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorDeconstructionProposal And we can keep spinning around the target, growing the “IPMC”, and trying to keep whatever “it” is

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > The structure would still be there - my hypothesis is that the > mentors + the board will both uplift structure, and help to identify > (more quickly) situations like no report, lack of mentors, etc. I am skeptical that Apache pol

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On Dec 30, 2014 10:27 AM, "John D. Ament" wrote: > > On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 9:50:49 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > > > On 12/21/2014 11:14 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > > > I don't particularly like that idea. For one, I know that if I were to > > see > > > 50%+ of mentors on a project I'm a mentor

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 9:50:49 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/21/2014 11:14 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > > I don't particularly like that idea. For one, I know that if I were to > see > > 50%+ of mentors on a project I'm a mentor on sign off on the report, I'm > > probably going to look at things

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/30/2014 09:00 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 30 Dec 2014, at 03:56, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: >>...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and I'm pretty sure >>in some cases that is an honora

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > ...outside of self-policing, is there a mechanism to ensure that something > like this, disfavouring egoistic > power, is in place? Note, I’m not sure it’s actually needed, just curious I don't think there's a formal mechanism, but

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/30/2014 05:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: ...Given that I'll be mentoring Zeppelin, I'd love to use that as a guinea pig. Provided, that I'd have some level of collaboration from the board I don't have a clear idea of wh

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 00:56 To: Incubator General Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead th

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 30 Dec 2014, at 03:56, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: >> ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and >> I'm pretty sure >> in some cases that is an honorary arrangement agreed to by the community

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > ...Given that I'll be mentoring Zeppelin, I'd love to use that as a guinea > pig. > Provided, that I'd have some level of collaboration from the board I don't have a clear idea of what the suggested experiment means, it looks like t

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > ...I cannot see the Board ever mandating chair rotations. That is up to the > community > ...For projects that don't understand the difference between "supportive" and > "lead": yeah, they could use a dose of trout-slapping and a chair rot

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:04 AM, jan i wrote: > On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Bertrand Delacretaz > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell > > > wrote: > > > ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with > Chair > > and I'm pretty sure > > > in some

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Greg Stein
And another +1 from myself, as a Director voting on that proposal/resolution. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) < chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > The structure would still be there - my hypothesis is that the > mentors + the board will both uplift structure, and h

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread jan i
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell > > wrote: > > ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair > and I'm pretty sure > > in some cases that is an honorary arrangement agreed to by the > community.

Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > ...It would be sad if this Incubator Community disappears in the proposed > move of incubating project to be reporting directly to the ASF Board... With my board member hat on, you can count on a strong -1 from me on that suggestion.

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > ...Certainly some projects have a de facto lead that coincide with Chair and > I'm pretty sure > in some cases that is an honorary arrangement agreed to by the community *loud red alarms going off all over my brain* If that's the case