Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-16 Thread Ralph Goers
And I have to disagree with you Joe. To me, a mandatory RTC policy says “we don’t trust anybody”. Sure, it doesn’t discriminate, but it is also a PITA. One project I mentored uses RTC along with ReviewBoard and mandates that you cannot commit your own work and every commit must be formally revie

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Joe Brockmeier
Top-posting on purpose. This thread has veered from discussing specific concerns about Sentry to a discussion about the Maturity Model. It'd probably be good to fork the thread and continue the discussion separately in case other folks specifically interested in the discussion about Sentry are wa

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Pierre Smits
Justin, Why is it so that graduation can be vetoed? Best regards, Pierre Smits *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace* http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Saturday, November 14, 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > No. I can use whatever criteria I l

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Ross Gardler
: Dennis E. Hamilton<mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org> Sent: ‎11/‎15/‎2015 10:28 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation I think the Maturity Model, relied on as some gu

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ce.) - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: justin.erenkra...@gmail.com [mailto:justin.erenkra...@gmail.com] > On Behalf Of Justin Erenkrantz > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 07:14 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Rich Bowen
On Nov 15, 2015 10:14 AM, "Justin Erenkrantz" wrote: > > On Saturday, November 14, 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > No. I can use whatever criteria I like to justify my vote on a podlings > > graduation, if it's in line with asf philosophy. This document is, and > > accurately reflects the criteria

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Saturday, November 14, 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: > No. I can use whatever criteria I like to justify my vote on a podlings > graduation, if it's in line with asf philosophy. This document is, and > accurately reflects the criteria I use when voting on a graduation. That > is, the document refle

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On Nov 13, 2015 4:50 PM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > > On 10.11.2015 16:00, Pierre Smits wrote: > > That is nice! Apache pages drawn up by a member of the Apache Software > > Foundation with the input from many (both ASF members and others) and > > hosted/communicated through ASF means, and then sayi

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-13 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > That kind of argument is totally out of line. The IPMC may decide to use > the model as a metric for podling compliance and so integrate it into > the Incubator policy[1]. Unless and until that happens, any attempt to > measure podlings again

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-13 Thread Branko Čibej
On 10.11.2015 16:00, Pierre Smits wrote: > That is nice! Apache pages drawn up by a member of the Apache Software > Foundation with the input from many (both ASF members and others) and > hosted/communicated through ASF means, and then saying that those 'are not > Foundation'. And that by/through

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-12 Thread Rich Bowen
On 11/11/2015 12:24 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > On 11/10/15, 12:31 PM, "Steve Loughran" wrote: > >> >* In any project where a significant number of the team members are >> >expected to ship something in approximate correlation with a release >> >schedule imposed by product management, project de

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-12 Thread Steve Loughran
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 17:24, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 11/10/15, 12:31 PM, "Steve Loughran" wrote: > >> * In any project where a significant number of the team members are >> expected to ship something in approximate correlation with a release >> schedule imposed by product management, pro

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-12 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/2015 10:00 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > That is nice! Apache pages drawn up by a member of the Apache > Software Foundation with the input from many (both ASF members and > others) and hosted/communicated through ASF means, and then saying > t

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Steve Loughran wrote: > This is an interesting topic, and one that is broader than just Apache > Sentry (incubating). Even so, I want to praise Joe Brockmeier for raising > it, and the comments -especially those from Greg Stein and Rich Bowen and > Marvin Humphrey

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Ted Dunning
Yes. It is very much like a hackathon. And it has some benefits in that somebody in a small town who couldn't make it to a hackathon in person but who happens to be near the right time zone can still participate. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > In that respect it is jus

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Ted Dunning
Alex, Yes. Pretty much any project that has significant commercial applications will have cadres of developers from companies involved. Those companies will be managing those developers time and efforts to meet the company goals. This can definitely be pernicious, especially since a company may

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Pierre Smits
In that respect it is just like a hackathon. Best regards, Pierre Smits *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace* http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Actually, I have seen some real benefits of on-line conferencing. These > benefits are similar to confer

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Ted Dunning
Actually, I have seen some real benefits of on-line conferencing. These benefits are similar to conferences and meetups. It is clear that the way you have to do these things is *in*addition* to the normal email discipline, but the addition can really be positive in that quiet lurkers on the maili

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Joe Witt
"Trust is the basis of a healthy community" -- For sure. "and RTC (via Jira or otherwise) just screams "we don't trust you. we must review all commits first."" -- I disagree. RTC has merit independent of concerns of trust. If trust issues are present in a community then any number of challenge

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2015, at 09:38, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Steve Loughran > wrote: > >> ...is JIRA-first development conducive to developing a community?... > > > > I don't think

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/10/15, 12:31 PM, "Steve Loughran" wrote: >* In any project where a significant number of the team members are >expected to ship something in approximate correlation with a release >schedule imposed by product management, project development decisions are >going to follow. Similarly, prior

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Steve Loughran
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 09:38, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Steve Loughran > wrote: >> ...is JIRA-first development conducive to developing a community?... > > I don't think so, as you say this breaks the project into very small > buckets and it'

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-11 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Steve, On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Steve Loughran wrote: > ...is JIRA-first development conducive to developing a community?... I don't think so, as you say this breaks the project into very small buckets and it's very hard for someone new to get the overview of what's going on and what

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Loughran
This is an interesting topic, and one that is broader than just Apache Sentry (incubating). Even so, I want to praise Joe Brockmeier for raising it, and the comments -especially those from Greg Stein and Rich Bowen and Marvin Humphrey for making me think more about this. * In any project with a

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-10 Thread Pierre Smits
That is nice! Apache pages drawn up by a member of the Apache Software Foundation with the input from many (both ASF members and others) and hosted/communicated through ASF means, and then saying that those 'are not Foundation'. And that by/through the fingers of a fellow board member That do

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-10 Thread Lenni Kuff
nn, Chris A (3980) < > > > >> > chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> > > +1 to the below. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > +++

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-08 Thread Niall Pemberton
> 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, Mails

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >... > Huh? The development of this document, > > > > > was carried out on the dev community list over a significant period of > time. It even provides an accou

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
expense of both community and sustainability. An > useful danger sign, that. > > - Dennis > > > -Original Message- > > From: Greg Reddin [mailto:gred...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 06:22 > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: R

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-07 Thread Ross Gardler
nt from my Windows Phone From: Dennis E. Hamilton<mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org> Sent: ‎11/‎6/‎2015 9:35 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and gradua

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 09:29 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and > graduation > > On 03.11.2015 09:48, B

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-07 Thread Branko Čibej
On 03.11.2015 09:48, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >> ...Sentry started with 24 committers/PPMC. It hasn't added any PPMC members >> since its inception... > If that's correct I'm -1 on graduating Sentry. > > and earlier he wrote: >> ..The mode

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Greg Stein
: Friday, November 6, 2015 06:22 > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and > > graduation > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaef

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread larry mccay
Hi Rich - I have read it and I think that it is really good. My concern isn't with the document at all - I think that it would have been great to have earlier. IMHO, it should not be a measuring stick as much as a teaching tool. Mentors helping podlings learn what is meant by The Apache Way and w

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2015 12:49 PM, larry mccay wrote: > +1 - I am concerned by the trend that I see developing here. > > A set of interview questions for evaluation is one thing but > criteria checkboxes that will encourage behaviors by rote will not > actuall

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
o:gred...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 06:22 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and > graduation > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: &

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> Committership is the right to do work on the project. PMC membership is the >> right to participate in governance. People left in the nebulous state >> between >> committership and PMC membership fo

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Greg Reddin
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> Committership is the right to do work on the project. PMC membership is the >> right to participate in governance. People left in the nebulous state >> between >> committership and PMC membership fo

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Committership is the right to do work on the project. PMC membership is the > right to participate in governance. People left in the nebulous state > between > committership and PMC membership for long periods of time more than likely > will give up

Re: maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > I don't think anybody is pining to make compliance with Bertrand's very nice > document into a policy document As a sidenote the maturity model is not "my" document. I did initiate that effort but it's been greatly enhanced by contributio

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Emmanuel Lécharny
Le 05/11/15 13:48, Joe Brockmeier a écrit : > On 11/05/2015 03:13 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: >>> PMC membership has nothing to do with technical mastery of the codebase, >>> which is why I cringe every time I see people talking about what "the bar" >>> should be. It's about trust. If you trust so

Re: maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > ...that brought us to our current, much less forceful, treatment > of the maturity model. Which is what I (and a few others including > it seems yourself) have been advocating on *this* thread. I took the tenor of the conversation as headi

Re: maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > IIRC you Roman were on the list of "undersigned" ;-). Yup. And that's why I felt like clarifying. > It got shot down for many, many reasons. Well, that depends on what 'it' is. But that's a different conversation ;-) Thanks, Roman. ---

Re: maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Joe Schaefer
IIRC you Roman were on the list of "undersigned" ;-). It got shot down for many, many reasons. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > I don't think anybody is pining to make compliance with Bertrand's very > nice > > doc

Re: maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > I don't think anybody is pining to make compliance with Bertrand's very nice > document into a policy document. To be fair, one offshoot of the 'undersigned' epic had that implication. It got shot down with 'trust the mentors' argument. And..

maturity guidelines (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Joe Schaefer
I don't think anybody is pining to make compliance with Bertrand's very nice document into a policy document. Rather, some people are finding it a useful guide to gauging project maturity, which is great and should be encouraged. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:35 PM, larry mccay wrote: > Hi Caleb -

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread larry mccay
Hi Caleb - I am glad that it is useful for your projects. I think that the use of it that you describe is valuable. It should be used as guidance and interpreted by the mentors for each podling. "These sort of metrics can be used to indicate health in this way or that" - this is different from "

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Caleb Welton
I am not in favor of bureaucracy, However... Having reviewed the maturity model and speaking as a member of a newly incubating podling I would like to chime in to say that I find it very useful. It helps frame discussions around what we can be doing as a community to embrace the apache way, move

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread larry mccay
+1 - I am concerned by the trend that I see developing here. A set of interview questions for evaluation is one thing but criteria checkboxes that will encourage behaviors by rote will not actually develop more healthy communities just communities that can get the boxes checked. While certain met

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Douglas
+1 Agree entirely. -C On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Roman Shaposhnik > wrote: >> Correct. It is a tool, but not a requirement (at least not yet). >> And since I repeatedly suggested this tool on this thread let me explain why. > > An

Private PPMC discussions and archives (was Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation)

2015-11-05 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 11/04/2015 03:55 PM, Sravya Tirukkovalur wrote: > One question on discussing candidature of a person for PPMC on private: > I know that private is only for PPMC, but I believe the new elected PPMC > can always get the digest for older messages (or not?). If that is the case > wouldn't it defeat

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 11/05/2015 03:13 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: >> PMC membership has nothing to do with technical mastery of the codebase, >> which is why I cringe every time I see people talking about what "the bar" >> should be. It's about trust. If you trust someone to work the gears on a >> release, >> that

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 11/05/2015 01:34 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Thanks Lenni. If Joe will permit me to put some words in his mouth, > he seems to be focused on how the project is solving coordination problems. > Coming to agreement on things like what to include in a release for > instance, which jiras get punted t

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Correct. It is a tool, but not a requirement (at least not yet). > And since I repeatedly suggested this tool on this thread let me explain why. And, this is the root of my concern expressed in the other general@ thread: I fear that this

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-05 Thread Martijn Dashorst
> PMC membership has nothing to do with technical mastery of the codebase, > which is why I cringe every time I see people talking about what "the bar" > should be. It's about trust. If you trust someone to work the gears on a > release, > that has considerable impact on the well-being of a proj

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > ...how about the > Sentry community focuses in on those three and asks, if we believe they are > not yet ready, what can we do to facilitate their development and get them to > the point where they *are* ready? Because if one or more become

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Sravya Tirukkovalur wrote: > ...I like Roman's idea of filling out the maturity model template,... FWIW we did this recently for Groovy and it's been useful, see https://github.com/apache/incubator-groovy/blob/master/MATURITY.adoc -Bertrand -

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Nov 4, 2015 10:03 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" >>... I agree but in the meantime we have >> https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html > > "we" don't have anything. ComDev has produced an interesting to way to loo

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Lenni Kuff
.mattm...@nasa.gov > >> > > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > >> > > ++ > >> > > Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department > >> > > University of Southe

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >> > > ++ >> > > Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department >> > > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> > > +

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
v > > > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > > > ++ > > > Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department > > > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > > > ++++++++++++++ > > > > > > &

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Lenni Kuff
gt; > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Joe Schaefer > > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > > Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 8:49 PM > > To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreem

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++ >> >> >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Joe Schaefer >> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" >> Date: Wednesday, Nov

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++ > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Joe Schaefer > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 8:49 PM > To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Subject:

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
++ -Original Message- From: Joe Schaefer Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 8:49 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation >Just to contrast th

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
Committership is the right to do work on the project. PMC membership is the right to participate in governance. People left in the nebulous state between committership and PMC membership for long periods of time more than likely will give up in frustration for not being trusted enough to govern th

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
Just to contrast this with the IPMC itself, we discuss everything here, including past decisions. Almost everything that happens here is a community decision, and we try to move with near unanimous consent. It is generally hard to figure out what roles people have without some formal VOTE where pe

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
This may sound a bit pedantic, but the "Sentry project" isn't capable of considering anything. Either you are referring to a decision of the committers or the PPMC or the community, all of which requires some discussion over time about any position being taken. I would consider it unusual for the

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 09:02 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > My experience on other projects is the same as Joe. afaik it's up to the > podling, and most I've been involved with decided to go with committer != > ppmc. Honestly I thought that was the default. And here I think I have to agree that it thi

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 08:26 PM, Lenni Kuff wrote: > I think there is some confusion here. The Sentry project has never > considered Committer == PMC. The recent website change was only to help > clarify the roles of each of the members of the project, it was not the > result of any decision being

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 08:43 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > > I don't think that's the question on the table. Typically, podlings make > > committers == PPMC members. The reasoning being that the only thing a > > PPMC member can do is vote on

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 08:43 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > I don't think that's the question on the table. Typically, podlings make > committers == PPMC members. The reasoning being that the only thing a > PPMC member can do is vote on adding new members. Other votes are all > non-binding (unless

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread John D. Ament
I don't think that's the question on the table. Typically, podlings make committers == PPMC members. The reasoning being that the only thing a PPMC member can do is vote on adding new members. Other votes are all non-binding (unless you're an IPMC member). It also helps promote the synergy need

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Lenni Kuff
I think there is some confusion here. The Sentry project has never considered Committer == PMC. The recent website change was only to help clarify the roles of each of the members of the project, it was not the result of any decision being made. Thanks, Lenni On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:03 PM, P. Ta

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
On Nov 4, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Lenni Kuff wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, P. Taylor Goetz >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >>> >>> * I would invite folks with access to go to Sentry's private list and >>> look over discussions about adding new

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Sravya Tirukkovalur
I like Roman's idea of filling out the maturity model template, I too think that might help get a holistic view . I can volunteer to do it as a sentry community member if needed. And let me take a stab at which of these I think we did for growing the community. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Ma

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Lenni Kuff
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, P. Taylor Goetz > wrote: > > > > > On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > > > * I would invite folks with access to go to Sentry's private list and > > look over discussions about adding new

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > For me, the key, nay brilliant, terms in the Maturity Model are about > "striving." > > The question is always, is there demonstrable striving toward the elements > identified in the maturity model. > > If that's not apparent, then one

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > In my experience "growing the community" is hard. It's very easy to say, > hard to do. Agreed -- and that why so many podlings put so much effort into it over the course of incubation and find it a challenging hurdle to overcome. When a proj

RE: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Roman Shaposhnik > Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 09:50 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and > graduation > [ ... ] > Think of it as when you are asking somebody to review your code. If you > don't

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Sravya Tirukkovalur
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Joe, has any of this conversation put your mind at ease about the > > podling? > > I'm less concerned than I was, yes. I'm still not in +1 territory. I'm > not entirely sure I'm out o

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, P. Taylor Goetz wrote: > > On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > * I would invite folks with access to go to Sentry's private list and > look over discussions about adding new contributors, and discussions > about the project in general. > > > I

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
> On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > * I would invite folks with access to go to Sentry's private list and > look over discussions about adding new contributors, and discussions > about the project in general. I took a look. From a community growth perspective, I see them a

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Nov 4, 2015 10:03 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: >> > ...If you read the graduation requirements it says nothing about adding > PPMC >> > as a strict requirement to grad

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Nov 4, 2015 10:03 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > > ...If you read the graduation requirements it says nothing about adding > PPMC > > > as a strict requirement

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > So you are -1 then. That's fine. But it gets back to my original concern. > > It's artificial. I can go back to the Sentry community and say "hey, you > > need some PPMC members, vote

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Joe, has any of this conversation put your mind at ease about the > > podling? > > I'm less concerned than I was, yes. I'm still not in +1 territory. I'm > not entirely sure I'm out o

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Nov 4, 2015 10:03 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > ...If you read the graduation requirements it says nothing about adding PPMC > > as a strict requirement to graduation: > > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_P

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > So you are -1 then. That's fine. But it gets back to my original concern. > It's artificial. I can go back to the Sentry community and say "hey, you > need some PPMC members, vote some in" and they might do it. It was > already > mentioned ear

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Joe, has any of this conversation put your mind at ease about the > podling? I'm less concerned than I was, yes. I'm still not in +1 territory. I'm not entirely sure I'm out of -1 territory. Sentry has made progress in its time in the incub

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > ...If they come back in a week and say "hey, > we just voted in 3 new ppmc members, now we're ready right?" you'll be fine > with that? This is why I highlighted it as artificial This is getting rethorical...I'm not interested in micromana

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > ...If you read the graduation requirements it says nothing about adding > PPMC > > as a strict requirement to graduation: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incu

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > ...If you read the graduation requirements it says nothing about adding PPMC > as a strict requirement to graduation: > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator ... I agree but in the mea

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > ...what would the action item the community should take away from > > this? As their mentor I'm not sure what advice i can give them. "add more > > ppmc members"? Sounds like th

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
Joe, has any of this conversation put your mind at ease about the podling? I certainly think you've done the right thing by raising your concerns here and asking for a sanity check. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Nov 4, 2015 2:47 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" > wrote: > > >

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Nov 4, 2015 2:47 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > ...what would the action item the community should take away from > > this? As their mentor I'm not sure what advice i can give them. "add more > > ppmc members"? Sounds like that's i

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > ...what would the action item the community should take away from > this? As their mentor I'm not sure what advice i can give them. "add more > ppmc members"? Sounds like that's in the pipeline. Seems artificial to me If it's in the pipel

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
Thanks Ted for pointing this out. The question is "[are you] vouching that all of Sentry's development is > happening in the open and Sentry development decisions are not being taken > offlist?" Yes, to the best of my knowledge, that is the case. Regards, Arvind Prabhakar On Tue, Nov 3, 2015

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-03 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > > > > Just to be clear - you're > > vouching that all of Sentry's development is happening in the open, and > > Sentry development decisions are not being taken offlist? > > > > > > Yes, in my best judgement, I feel the Sentry community

Re: Concerning Sentry: A disagreement over the Apache Way and graduation

2015-11-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
Sorry for the tardy response, I am mostly on the road for this week and have limited time and access to emails. Some comments below. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > If that was your meaning, I do apologize for misinterpreting what you > said. I do appreciate you unders

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