Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Richard S. Hall wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> >> I don't know all the communities around ASF, but what I have seen is >> that the "acceptance"/"decline" happens after the public vote. Entries >> to PMCs seems more like "private vote" -> accept/decline -> "welcome" >> in the communities I know o

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-05 Thread Richard S. Hall
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 07:48, Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Niclas, There is one issue that still bothers me about your proposed ways of voting. At some point, the nominee has to be asked, and accept, to become a committer. This would have to be after the private votes are

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-04 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Niclas, On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 07:48, Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Niclas, There is one issue that still bothers me about your proposed ways of voting. At some point, the nominee has to be asked, and accept, to become a committer. This would

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 07:48, Craig L Russell wrote: > Hi Niclas, > > There is one issue that still bothers me about your proposed ways of > voting. At some point, the nominee has to be asked, and accept, to > become a committer. This would have to be after the private votes are > done and before

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-04 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Niclas, There is one issue that still bothers me about your proposed ways of voting. At some point, the nominee has to be asked, and accept, to become a committer. This would have to be after the private votes are done and before the public vote. So after the nominee accepts, they sudd

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-03 Thread Leo Simons
Thanks Craig. Some suggestions/comments: On May 31, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: Voting in a new committer If a developer has contributed a significant number of high-quality patches, is interested in continuing the contribution, and has demonstrated the ability to work well wit

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-01 Thread ant elder
On 5/30/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Trieloff wrote: > One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from > different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not > send the account setup mail to root?" The view that counts is from htt

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-01 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Bill, Thanks for clarifying your position. This is a bit of a surprise, since I thought I was just elaborating existing practice as documented in the ppmc guide. The section in question had been in the guides/ppmc for as long as I've been at Apache, and I missed any dialog regarding th

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: > Craig L Russell wrote: >>> >>> How could a PPMC participate in a vote on the Incubator PMC's private >>> list? >> >> It cannot, and I don't believe I implied that this would be the case. >> The idea is that the PPMC, with the help of the Mentors, conducts a >> discussion and a

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Martin Sebor
Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Martin, On May 30, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: Craig L Russell wrote: [...] So IMHO, best practice for podlings is to hold a [DISCUSS] Joe Bleau for committer on the PPMC private list, followed by a [VOTE] on the PPMC private list, and then a formal [VOTE

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Dion Gillard
Speaking of being unnecessarily hostile and confrontational, thanks for bagging Jakarta. FWIW, The most recent Jakarta committer votes have been conducted in private, and what you describe is not a current Jakarta practice. Where are Noel's comments about bad Jakarta practice? I had a quick look

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Dan Diephouse
As this seems to be an evolving Best Practice, I don't know that when started a vote recently on two new committers for CXF that all of this was apparent to me at the time. The current documentation at least http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html seems to indicate that we just need a net pos

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On May 30, 2007, at 11:37 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> Craig L Russell wrote: >>> >>> o The podling's developer list, with notice posted to the Incubator >>> general list. The notice is a separate email forwarding the vote email >>> with a cover state

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Martin, On May 30, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: Craig L Russell wrote: [...] So IMHO, best practice for podlings is to hold a [DISCUSS] Joe Bleau for committer on the PPMC private list, followed by a [VOTE] on the PPMC private list, and then a formal [VOTE] on the private inc

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Bill, On May 30, 2007, at 11:37 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Craig L Russell wrote: o The podling's developer list, with notice posted to the Incubator general list. The notice is a separate email forwarding the vote email with a cover statement that this vote is underway on the podl

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-31 Thread Martin Sebor
Craig L Russell wrote: [...] So IMHO, best practice for podlings is to hold a [DISCUSS] Joe Bleau for committer on the PPMC private list, followed by a [VOTE] on the PPMC private list, and then a formal [VOTE] on the private incubator PMC list with references to the discussion and vote of the P

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: > > o The podling's developer list, with notice posted to the Incubator > general list. The notice is a separate email forwarding the vote email > with a cover statement that this vote is underway on the podling's > developer list. This is a good approach if you are sure of

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
I'd like to discuss one detail of the process for new committers. On May 30, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: If the nominee is already an Apache committer on another project, the proposer asks the incubator PMC chair to update the authorization file to include the nominee as a comm

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Here's what I'd like to do with the ppmc guide. Change: Voting in a new committer If a developer has contributed a significant number of high-quality patches, is interested in continuing the contribution, and has demonstrated the ability to work well with others under the Apache guidelines,

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Craig L Russell wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On May 30, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > >> Craig L Russell wrote: >> >>> Hi Carl, >>> >>> On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: >>> One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Jean, On May 30, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Carl, On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not s

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
On May 30, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Craig Russell wrote: I'd like to open the discussion on the "best practice" referred to by the guides/ppmc because I'm not convinced that best practice for a TLP is best practice for the incubator. Personally, if I saw a vote on the incu

RE: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Carl Trieloff wrote: > One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from > different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not > send the account setup mail to root?" The view that counts is from http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter. Please note

RE: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Craig Russell wrote: > I'd like to open the discussion on the "best practice" referred to by > the guides/ppmc because I'm not convinced that best practice for a > TLP is best practice for the incubator. > Personally, if I saw a vote on the incubator private PMC list for a > new committer on a po

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Craig L Russell wrote: > Hi Carl, > > On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: > >> One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views >> from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can >> not send the account setup mail to root?" >> >> Given each

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Martin Ritchie
On 30/05/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Yoav, On May 30, 2007, at 6:38 AM, Yoav Shapira wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/30/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally, if I saw a vote on the incubator private PMC list for a >> new committer on a podling, including refe

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Yoav, On May 30, 2007, at 6:38 AM, Yoav Shapira wrote: Hi, On 5/30/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, if I saw a vote on the incubator private PMC list for a new committer on a podling, including references to the PPMC discussion and vote, I would be inclined to vot

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Carl Trieloff
Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Carl, On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not send the account setup mail to root?" Given each new committer vote

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Carl, On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not send the account setup mail to root?" Given each new committer vote will have 3 PMC votes

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, On 5/30/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, if I saw a vote on the incubator private PMC list for a new committer on a podling, including references to the PPMC discussion and vote, I would be inclined to vote for that committer. On the other hand, if I saw a vote on t

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 5/30/07, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: behind this practice. If the mail to root has to be cc-ed to general list and PPMC and has 3 PMC votes on it then it would seem to me that it could be send by anyone. I can only think of one reason: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not accessible to PPM

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 20:59, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > I like the second option. thanks for bringing this up. I don't. It assumes that the [Discuss] thread was all dandy. If not, then the vote passes in public and the Incubator PMC will become the 'bad guys who doesn't let X in'. Looking at

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Dims, It wasn't completely clear from my message, but I intended this to be a choice of the PPMC (with guidance by the Mentors) to hold the votes either in private or in public. I'd like to get others' input as well on whether the guidance here should be 1. private vote on PPMC then

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Carl Trieloff
One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not send the account setup mail to root?" Given each new committer vote will have 3 PMC votes, why does a mentor have to send the account setup to root?

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Davanum Srinivas
I like the second option. thanks for bringing this up. thanks, dims On 5/30/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to open the discussion on the "best practice" referred to by the guides/ppmc because I'm not convinced that best practice for a TLP is best practice for the incuba

Re: PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
I'd like to open the discussion on the "best practice" referred to by the guides/ppmc because I'm not convinced that best practice for a TLP is best practice for the incubator. The reason is that PPMC votes have no legal status. And incubator PMC members generally don't track podlings close

PPMC guidance on new committers

2007-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Having seen this identical discussion at least half a dozen times, I've committed changes to the guides/ppmc document removing the distracting (P) from the discussion on new committers. The new text says Only votes cast by Incubator PMC members are binding. If the vote is positive, and the