Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> >> On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: >> >>> I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in >>> a r/o state. >>> >>> According to the XAP stat

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> >> This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and >> procedure.  On the table we have: >> >> Suspension would include: >> >>  -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) >>  -- disable com

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> That doesn't seem right either. I think members should still be able >> to access it read-only. > > Fair enough. I just don't think it should be readable by the public. But members? Why not just authenticated commi

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and di

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so IMHO

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so IMHO the repository has not been vetted. I think we shoul

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-27 Thread David Crossley
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. > On the table we have: > > Suspension would include: > > -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) > -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) > -- change the index of

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Ralph Goers
I would recommend that the public facing page for the project also be modified since it will still show up in searches. Ralph On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both flag

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-23 Thread Ross Gardler
Ross > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Ross Gardler >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-22 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Nutch - Original Message > From: Ross Gardler > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > 2009/2/21 Otis Gospodnetic : > > > > Perhaps GSOC is something to con

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
. Ross > > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Thilo Goetz >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re

Academic code drops (Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects])

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 William A. Rowe, Jr. : > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >> I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use >> apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be >> useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code >> especially from acade

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Robert Burrell Donkin : > On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >>> >>> >>> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia.  Now academics have no >>

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Janne Jalkanen : >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia.  Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary.  But they have an >> overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation.  So >> they like t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:57:09 AM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > I know that we

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Fri 20 Feb 2009 17:23, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Can you perhaps contact these individuals one-by-one and get their >> view on how they see it. Perhaps ask them to publish their work in >> parallel, and perhaps the 'OSS bug' will bite a couple of them?? > > I have talked to quite a few of them, a

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
.org > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > > wrote: > > > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to r

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some proof

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Janne Jalkanen wrote: >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an >> overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So >> the

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> >> >> >>> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >>> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >>> problems with open source, to the contrar

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Janne Jalkanen
> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is > this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no > problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an > overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So > they like to publish their source code on t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. +1 I may be mistaken, but from the what I can tell UIMA has had to manage with barely any mentor support for the p

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > > > >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an >> overwhelming ne

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is > this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no > problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an > overwhelming need to publish and build up a reput

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > wrote: > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA >> before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. > > That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do > you have a he

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do you have a healthy and diverse set of users? If s

UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/19/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be >>> considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors >>> and >>> the Commun

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-19 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be >> considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and >> the Community as a whole. > > I'm not a mentor of Lo

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/18/09, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman >> wrote: > >>> The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, >>> disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, simi

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, >> disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, similar to what Roy >> was talking about @ AC-EU-2

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: > >> River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost >> its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a >> mentor I'm putting some effort th

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >>> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >>> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >>> podlings should

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >> podlings should just be archived into an Attic. > > IMO, you seem to have latch

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >> podlings should just be archived into an Attic. > > IMO, you seem to have latc

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. > Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive > podlings should just be archived into an Attic. IMO, you seem to have latched onto the wrong definition of the word suspend, which has multip

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost > its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a > mentor I'm putting some effort there, hoping to achieve a similar > revival as we've seen in PDFBox

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be > considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and > the Community as a whole. I'm not a mentor of Lokahi, but I hang around there. The

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is >> it still public available somewhere? > > Suspension would include: > > -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) > -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) > -- change

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is > it still public available somewhere? Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both f

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be > considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and > the Community as a whole. I am long term apache user and have no benefit from projects