RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
this or another public email list and fix them. Eric -Original Message- From: Jim Jagielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:43 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management] On Oct 1,

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Kulp
Let me see if I can summarize some of the issues as I see them... Currently, new podlings come from one of three sources: 1) Closed source code (usually from and external company) that is useful and thus would like to be made open source. (tuscany, yoko, etc...) 2) One (or more) open source co

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 10/1/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: would however encourage only voting people in after they an appropriate level of committment and involvement with the project. This creates a dividing line by omitting past contribu

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Dan Diephouse wrote: I assume you're referring to this sentence: "Initially, it is composed of the Podling's mentors and initial committers." I have also found some threads which indicate that all committers should be added [1][2]. I am pretty philosophicall

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 10/1/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example, if I were to work on a project for many months at Google Code and then propose it to come here, why shouldn't I continue to have a say in what the project does? Why do I need to justify myself all over again? Why aren't my p

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 10/1/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: would however encourage only voting people in after they an appropriate level of committment and involvement with the project. This creates a dividing line by omitting past contributions from the discussion which I feel is inappropriate. F

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Dan Diephouse
Dan Diephouse wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Dan Diephouse
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in the direction

RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC > > > > > members. > > > I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in the > > > direction of the project. > > Are you reading Dan's st

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 10/1/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. > I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in the > direction of the project. To do otherwise is to exclude them from the > community. Re

RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Dan Diephouse wrote: > > I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. > I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in the > direction of the project. To do otherwise is to exclude them from the > community. Remember t

RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dan Diephouse wrote: > I assume you're referring to this sentence: > "Initially, it is composed of the Podling's mentors and initial committers." > I have also found some threads which indicate that all committers should > be added [1][2]. I want to know here - who is wrong? The documentation? N

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 10/1/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. Apache is meritocracy based and IMO it makes much more sense to start with the mentors on the PPMC and have committers voted on based on their leadership. There may be ma

RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jason van Zyl wrote: > I think starting with the mentors is the wisest choice as at that > point any committers can be brought aboard if deemed fit. My view of that should be quite clear by now. :-) > I was also confused about this as I heard one thing from Noel and > one thing from Jim Can yo

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Vinoski
+1 to Dan's opinion. --steve On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Dan Diephouse wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 28 Sep 06, at 12:59 PM 28 Sep 06, Garrett Rooney wrote: Well, PMCs are formed by the board when a project moves to top l

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Dan Diephouse
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 28 Sep 06, at 12:59 PM 28 Sep 06, Garrett Rooney wrote: Well, PMCs are formed by the board when a project moves to top level status. PPMCs are formed for an incubating project, and exactly how that works

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 28 Sep 06, at 12:59 PM 28 Sep 06, Garrett Rooney wrote: Well, PMCs are formed by the board when a project moves to top level status. PPMCs are formed for an incubating project, and exactly how that works tends to differ a bit between pr

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-09-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 28 Sep 06, at 12:59 PM 28 Sep 06, Garrett Rooney wrote: Well, PMCs are formed by the board when a project moves to top level status. PPMCs are formed for an incubating project, and exactly how that works tends to differ a bit between projects. Some mentors start off with just the mentors

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-09-28 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 9/28/06, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/28/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Garrett Rooney wrote: > > PPMCs are formed for an incubating project, and exactly how > > that works tends to differ a bit between projects. Some mentors start > > off with just

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-09-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/28/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Garrett Rooney wrote: > PPMCs are formed for an incubating project, and exactly how > that works tends to differ a bit between projects. Some mentors start > off with just the mentors on the PPMC, and then invite project members > as time

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-09-28 Thread Dan Diephouse
Garrett Rooney wrote: On 9/28/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: > thinking about whether there's a need to wait to release until the > PPMC is fully formed and representation of the podling committers. > > PPMCs are typically filled up relatively late in t

Re: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-09-28 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 9/28/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: > thinking about whether there's a need to wait to release until the > PPMC is fully formed and representation of the podling committers. > > PPMCs are typically filled up relatively late in the process - towards >