Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 2/15/06, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's true but there are reasons why copying the email to the PMC is good > practice: > > 1 the PMC may contain people (such as officers and members) who are not on > the dev lists. > 2 the PMC list should provide a permenant record of

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 2/9/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > > >> dev list or ppmc list? Only PMC members' votes are binding for > >> full TLPs; I suggest having the vote on the dev list as mentioned > >> but only the PPMC members' votes being bi

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-11 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Feb 11, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Jeremy Hughes wrote: Firstly, thank you for clarifying the process. With the last milestone release of the Woden podling we struggled. Just a quick question ... you seem to imply that every podling has a PPMC. In Woden we do not as we don't envisage ever becoming a T

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-11 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Sorry ... the question is ... are we doing this right? Or should every podling actually have a PPMC. Thanks, Jeremy On 2/11/06, Jeremy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, thank you for clarifying the process. With the last milestone > release of the Woden podling we struggled. Just a qui

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-11 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Firstly, thank you for clarifying the process. With the last milestone release of the Woden podling we struggled. Just a quick question ... you seem to imply that every podling has a PPMC. In Woden we do not as we don't envisage ever becoming a TLP. So our binding votes are the committers' votes.

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-10 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: > This is a follow up on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-14, which I opened to > track this doc topic. > > I'd like to clarify the "Releases" section in > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html (I'll also > add a table of contents to

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread David Crossley
Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > > >+1 sounds good. Perhaps its good to incorporate by reference the HTTPD > >release guidelines or similar. > > good suggestion. > > thanks, Also Robert has been doing a heap of work pulling together all of the information about releases. See http

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Sebor
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good info, thanks! The relationship (committers == PPMC) seems reasonable to me, especially in light of the current discussion of releases. Martin Martin Sebor wrote: I thought every committer's vote counted as bi

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > ... > There is no need to "notify the PPMC". > > PMC == Project Management Committee == the people who make decisions > for a project == the people with binding votes in public decisions > == the people on the dev list we listen to when they vote. > > Anyone not on the d

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Martin Sebor wrote: > Jean T. Anderson wrote: > [...] > >> it should be public vote, so on the public -dev list. Here's a >> suggested refinement: >> >> "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the >> Podling SHALL hold a vote on the Podling's public -dev list and notif

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: dev list or ppmc list? Only PMC members' votes are binding for full TLPs; I suggest having the vote on the dev list as mentioned but only the PPMC members' votes being binding. it should be public vote, so on the public -dev list. Here's a

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sebor wrote: > > I thought every committer's vote counted as binding. Grey-area time here.. In projects where committers == PMC, that's the case. The confusion probably has its origins in the HTTP server project back before there *was* an AS

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Sebor
Jean T. Anderson wrote: [...] it should be public vote, so on the public -dev list. Here's a suggested refinement: "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the Podling SHALL hold a vote on the Podling's public -dev list and notify the Podling's PPMC list that the vote

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Well, that's I think the official rules of most projects. In practice what I've seen happen usually is that when someone throws a -1 its for a serious reason and the vote is simply aborted, the problem is fixed, and a new release is made. Just t

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Sebor
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the Podling SHALL hold a vote on the Podling -dev list. dev list or ppmc list? Only PMC members' votes are binding for full TLPs; I suggest

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Martin Sebor wrote: > >>>Jean T. Anderson wrote: >>> >>> This is a follow up on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-14, which I opened to track this doc topic. >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> (2) Process details I'd like to modify this se

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sebor wrote: > Jean T. Anderson wrote: > >>This is a follow up on >>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-14, which I opened to >>track this doc topic. > > [...] > >>(2) Process details >> >>I'd like to modify this sentence: >> >>

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leo Simons wrote: > > Well, that's I think the official rules of most projects. In practice > what I've seen happen usually is that when someone throws a -1 its for > a serious reason and the vote is simply aborted, the problem is fixed, > and a new r

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: Leo Simons wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: In http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200601.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy wrote: Minimum three binding (official PMC) +1 votes and a majority of all votes bei

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Leo Simons wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: In http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200601.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy wrote: Minimum three binding (official PMC) +1 votes and a majority of all votes being positive. Releases do

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Martin Sebor wrote: Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the Podling SHALL hold a vote on the Podling -dev list. If the majority of all votes is positive, then send a summary of that vote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and formally request the

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Sebor
Jean T. Anderson wrote: This is a follow up on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-14, which I opened to track this doc topic. [...] (2) Process details I'd like to modify this sentence: "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the Podling SHALL formal

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > In > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200601.mbox/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Roy wrote: > > >Minimum three binding (official PMC) +1 votes and a majority of all > >votes being positive. Releases do not nee

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:00:09PM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... (2) Process details I'd like to modify this sentence: "Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release, the Podling SHALL formally request the Incubator PMC approve such a release." A

Re: [doc] podling software releases

2006-02-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:00:09PM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > (1) What's the "Charter" referred to in this section? > > There are two "Reference to Charter" sentences: > > "Such approval SHALL be given only after the Incubator PMC has followed > the process detailed in (Reference to Charte