Re: [MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > MesaTEE report has been completed just a couple of days ago (starting from > version 50 at November2019 page). It may be the reason that other mentors > have not signed off yet. Quite likely I didn’t check the date and assumed it has been submitted on time. Looking at the report and the ma

Re: [MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Furkan KAMACI
Hi Justin, MesaTEE report has been completed just a couple of days ago (starting from version 50 at November2019 page). It may be the reason that other mentors have not signed off yet. Kind Regards, Furkan KAMACI On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Good to see most

[MENTORS] Incubator report sign off (due November 12th)

2019-11-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Good to see most podlings have had at lease one mentor sign off. Only one prodling Ratis is yet to get any mentor sign offs. It would be good to see more signs off on these projects: - Heron - PageSpeed - Tamaya - MesaTEE MesaTEE I’m a little conceded about as it has 6 mentors but so far on

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-09 Thread Andrew Purtell
Thanks Roman. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: > >> One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as > > dedicated > >> > > to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: >> One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as > dedicated >> > to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it > involved >> > in monitoring all of TLPs, not just pTLPs. > > What problem exists tod

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: >> An addition of the overseeing committee, will shield the board from >> > *some* of the day-to-day business of telling the pTLP that something >> > needs to be fixed. > > Is this pretty close to IPMC in another name? No it isn't. First of al

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-06 Thread Doug Cutting
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Upayavira wrote: > I'd much rather we be clear with projects right up front, saying > something like: > > "To join the Incubator, you need one or more mentors. To get to > graduation, you will need the support of those mentors. If mentors > become unavailable, you

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > This to me looks like a good way to make sure a mentor can always do their > job - make sure they're not overloaded. > > BTW these #'s (1 & 2) should be subjective as I'm just making guesses for > good #'s. > Not only are these numbers relat

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
50 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off > > This statement confuses the lack of active mentors with the sheer size of the > IPMC. The problem is not the size of the IPMC. The problem is that mentors > are not doing their jobs > &g

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Andrew Purtell
> One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as dedicated ​> ​ to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it involved ​> ​ in monitoring all of TLPs, not just pTLPs. What problem exists today where the Board needs ​such ​ a buffer? In what ways could

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Andrew Purtell
> An addition of the overseeing committee, will shield the board from ​> ​ *some* of the day-to-day business of telling the pTLP that something ​> ​ needs to be fixed. Is this pretty close to IPMC in another name? Who gets to be on the new overseeing committee? Not current IPMC membership right?

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
lto:l...@toolazydogs.com] Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 4:50 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off This statement confuses the lack of active mentors with the sheer size of the IPMC. The problem is not the size of the IPMC. The problem is that mentors are not

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread John D. Ament
Perhaps then, there's a recommendation that: - a member can be champion to only one pTLP at a time. - a member can be mentor to no more than two pTLP at a time. This to me looks like a good way to make sure a mentor can always do their job - make sure they're not overloaded. BTW these #'s (1 & 2

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
not responsible for any actions resulting from those >> reviews, the IPMC is. >> >> Ross >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] >> Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:31 AM >> To: general@incuba

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan Cabrera
A champion is merely a mentor who has publicly committed to being an active mentor, in some significant capacity, of a podling. The creation of such a role is symptomatic of a dysfunctional organization where responsibility and accountability has been diluted so much it's not at all clear who

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
iginal Message- From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 3:39 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org; Benson Margulies Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, st

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Ted Dunning
When I sign up for helping a project, especially as champion, this is a very reasonable request. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear > level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 3:39 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org; Benson Margulies Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, still since Ross' reply was one of th

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
ns resulting from those > reviews, the IPMC is. > > Ross > > -Original Message- > From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] > Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:31 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Incubator report

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
Makes sense :) Hadrian On 01/05/2015 06:41 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every month_ or find someone else to do it. That's one person whom I wanted to ask to sign up

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Jan, On Jan 5, 2015, at 12:18 PM, jan i wrote: > On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: >> >>> On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera >> > wrote: >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik >> wrote:

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every month_ or find someone else to do it. That's one person whom I wanted to ask to sign up, for the duration of an incubation, to pay enough attention to be able to

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
I am clearly hitting my rate-limit with emails to general@, still since Ross' reply was one of the few pieces of feedback from the board, I'll do this one and then wait for others to chime in (Benson?). On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > This proposal is not nece

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
haposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 1:52 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > But the board is not responsible for any actions resulting f

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > But the board is not responsible for any actions resulting from those > reviews, the IPMC is. Agreed for the state of the things today. What is being proposed is that actions resulting from those reviews are going to be pTLPs P

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On 5 January 2015 at 21:57, Upayavira wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 08:18 PM, jan i wrote: > > On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: > > > > > > > On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera > > > > wrote: > > > >

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
ator.apache.org" Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off > >On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera >> >>wrote: >&

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Upayavira
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 08:18 PM, jan i wrote: > On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: > > > > > On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera > > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik > > wrot

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On 5 January 2015 at 20:06, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: > > > On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera > > wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik > wrote: > >> > >>> The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is th

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Upayavira
An "IPMC responsibility" is a "no responsibility". How many people here are prepared to take on a struggling project "for the love of the Incubator", with no particular interest or investment in the technology, or connection to the people involved? In the end, if a project wants to join the ASF,

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: > On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera > wrote: > >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> >>> The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part >>> that would require us to do something with poddlings put >>

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> >>> The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part >>> that would require us to do something with poddl

Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On Monday, January 5, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera > wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > > The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part > > that would require us to do something with poddlings put > > on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria f

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part >> that would require us to do something with poddlings put >> on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria f

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > The tracking part is easy, though. What's difficult is the part > that would require us to do something with poddlings put > on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria for > this new state -- I don't think we're solving any real prob

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:36 PM, jan i wrote: > ...I like this idea, except putting the full responsibility of finding new > mentors on the shoulders of the... The Incubator PMC would help of course, but it's the podling who's in charge of asking for mentors, in the same way as when they enter inc

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it > deserves more attention. > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> ...Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A >

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread jan i
On Monday, January 5, 2015, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it > deserves more attention. > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera > wrote: > > ...Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. > A m

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
" Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off > >On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera >>wrote: >>> >>>&

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > What new thing is being proposed here?... This, meant to fix the "mentors fade away" problem: >>>...Podlings that >>> do not have the minimum of two active mentors are put on hold until >>>they find enough mentors to fill the quot

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/05/2015 12:14 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the mentor risks being removed for not performing their duties. For most mentors, it seems that going inactive is a gradual slide, not a momentous decision. -- Ric

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 9:14 AM To: Incubator General Subject: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off) >Hi, > >I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it >deserves

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > ...What's difficult is the part > that would require us to do something with poddlings put > on hold. Unless we come up with clear exit criteria for > this new state -- I don't think we're solving any real problems > here A podling tha

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > I am in favor of #3 since it holds mentors accountable. #1 is simply a > washing of > our hands and pawning the problem off on the board simple because some of us > are unwilling to do uncomfortable things. Here's the bit that seems to be

Re: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > As for measuring the mentors activity, I suggest simply adding a > question to the podling reports, "who are your two active mentors and > are you happy with their activity" along with requiring report > sign-off from those two mentors.

Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, I'm resending Alan's proposal with a new subject as I think it deserves more attention. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > ...Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A > mentor is free to become inactive > but must explicitly state this els

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 5, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> >>> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> >>> 1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model >> >> This is effectively an IPMC reboot. I don’t real

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > >> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> >>1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model > > This is effectively an IPMC reboot. I don’t really see anything > substantially different. At this point, I'm c

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Struberg
> Ross > > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation > > -----Original Message- > From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman > Shaposhnik > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 10:11 AM > To: general@incubato

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
> On Dec 29, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> 3. patch the current process with starting to drop the mentors from >> the project who don't sign off. This will essentially serve >> as a heartbeat for mentors (now, in my opinion it'll quickly >>deteriorate into

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >1. get rid of IPMC altogether and move to the pTLP model This is effectively an IPMC reboot. I don’t really see anything substantially different. >2. make this a poddling issue: if a poddling fails to hunt down ALL >t

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > I noted in my comments on the recent Incubator board report that I am > concerned, month after month, at the number of podlings that have no mentor > sign-off at all, as well as the ones where a minority of the mentors sign-off. > > I certa

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

2014-12-31 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
ncubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off 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

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: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
, December 30, 2014 8:05 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off 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

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread John D. Ament
ee with the overall intention of your mail, but it seems I > disagree on what adequate oversight is. > > Ross > > -Original Message----- > From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndam...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:47 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sub

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off 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

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: 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

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

2014-12-30 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
14 at 1:09 AM To: Incubator General Subject: Re: Process over Ego [Was: Re: Incubator report sign-off >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 proje

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: 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 l

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: 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: 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

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

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> On 29 Dec 2014, at 18:54, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: >> >> But a move of reporting-to authority does not have to change any of >> that, does it? > > Depends on how much of an anarchist one is :-) and what is meant by > authority, to

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

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 29 Dec 2014, at 18:54, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > > But a move of reporting-to authority does not have to change any of > that, does it? Depends on how much of an anarchist one is :-) and what is meant by authority, too, I suppose. But, to answer the question, I would say, no: it does

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 well said. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Benson Margulies<mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com> Sent: ‎12/‎29/‎2014 6:25 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off I'd like to loo

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Benson Margulies
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 the mailing list. 2. Failure to build an _Apache_ community. These

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > Roman, please forgive me absence from this conversation. I started the > thread, and then went on Christmas vacation. I am still on vacation for > another week, but will attempt to keep up with the conversation here, and > not abandon the thread

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

2014-12-29 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
> -Original Message- >> From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:andrew.purt...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off >> >> There are honorary and practical reasons why a

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks > off of work. Catching up ... Oh, man! I was about to take a strong and decisive action today ;-) Seriously -- welcome back into this conversation. > You make a good

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

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ity and they will only do that at the > request of the PMC as a whole (or when there is no active PMC to make such a > request). > > Ross > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:andrew.purt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM >

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Andrew Purtell
Agreed, it's not worth debating project lead as a formal or informal construct. I don't think we are on the same page. 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. > On Dec 2

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/29/2014 02:46 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: The PMC Chair absolutely does*not* have the power to dissolve the PMC. Only the Board of Directors have that authority and they will only do that at the request of the PMC as a whole (or when there is no active PMC to make such a re

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:andrew.purt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off > > There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair > and the project

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/29/2014 01:45 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC Chair has

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
est of the PMC as a whole (or when there is no active PMC to make such a request). Ross -Original Message- From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:andrew.purt...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:45 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator report sign-off There are ho

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Andrew Purtell
There are honorary and practical reasons why a project may view the PMC Chair and the project leader as one in the same. Honorary: The community elevated one member as lead and assigned the Chair role out of respect. Practical: The PMC Chair has the power to dissolve the PMC, and is an office

RE: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
itself" rather than simply saying "sure I'd like to see more projects at the ASF" Sent from my Windows Phone From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> Sent: ‎12/‎29/‎2014 6:13 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.a

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Dec 29, 2014 12:11 PM, "Hadrian Zbarcea" wrote: > > > On 12/29/2014 09:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding >>> off on replying to see whether viewpoints th

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
+1 On 12/29/2014 09:15 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks off of work. Catching up ... On 12/19/2014 01:10 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: First of all,*my* expectation is that multiple mentors on the project are more of redundancy o

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
On 12/29/2014 09:40 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding off on replying to see whether viewpoints that we haven's seen before would emerge. It seems that they didn't. It seems that we

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
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, but not add my signature. Not out of laziness, but in seeing that

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/23/2014 03:34 PM, sebb wrote: Flex had three great mentors, but to expect them to be the PMC Chair on >graduation would have been problematic. They were great mentors because >they had lots of experience from their work on other Apache projects, and >thus didn’t have time to stay active

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/22/2014 11:42 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! before answering Ross' proposal, I'd like to remark that I was holding off on replying to see whether viewpoints that we haven's seen before would emerge. It seems that they didn't. It seems that we're still limited by the following options w

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/19/2014 02:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: What it would do however if we simply did away with the notion of the IPMC/Incubator/etc., is to return to the notion of pTLPs which were proposed earlier which I would most wholeheartedly support. Having read more, and understood more,

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/19/2014 02:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: 1. Incubation yes, Incubator no a. (all Incubator documentation, active folks, etc., become part of the pool of [incoming project VP]) b. IPMC is dissolved c. We create a new “Incubation PMC” that includes most active members of I

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Rich Bowen
This is what happens when I write email like this and then go for two weeks off of work. Catching up ... On 12/19/2014 01:10 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: First of all,*my* expectation is that multiple mentors on the project are more of redundancy or HA consideration. IOW, my expectation that a

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