Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > If you mean you saved over it, you can easily get the last version back. no, i mean iw was working solely in preview, and hadn't saved it at all. :-( i was waiting until it was further along. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ A

Re: Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-28 Thread Berin Lautenbach
de for new projects. Incorporates the requirements of the board, so that new projects can be sure they are meeting the expectations of the board. Cheers, Berin > From: Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: incubator, exit and publication > Date: 29/09/

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-28 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On 9/28/03 7:59 AM, "Rodent of Unusual Size" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: >> >> under a draft prototype set of pmc bylaws, probably. i'm >> working on one now that i should be able to post in a couple >> of hours. > > well, thanks to mozilla crashing, and the wiki

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 01:04 AM, Stephen McConnell wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: (sorry stephen i should have probably been clearer.) i was looking for an official(ish) statement from roy or one of the other senior (board level) ASF folks. (i'm happy to take active steps to en

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-28 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > > Hoping you are aware that we put a strawman together for this here : > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorCharterDraft no, not for the incubator specifically; as a potential template for any project. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedwei

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-28 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > under a draft prototype set of pmc bylaws, probably. i'm > working on one now that i should be able to post in a couple > of hours. well, thanks to mozilla crashing, and the wiki not treating 'preview' as meaning 'display but don't store even temporarily', i los

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
robert burrell donkin wrote: (sorry stephen i should have probably been clearer.) i was looking for an official(ish) statement from roy or one of the other senior (board level) ASF folks. (i'm happy to take active steps to ensure that ASF policy is enforced by the jakarta pmc - and any other

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread Berin Lautenbach
robert burrell donkin wrote: (sorry stephen i should have probably been clearer.) i was looking for an official(ish) statement from roy or one of the other senior (board level) ASF folks. (i'm happy to take active steps to ensure that ASF policy is enforced by the jakarta pmc - and any other pr

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
(sorry stephen i should have probably been clearer.) i was looking for an official(ish) statement from roy or one of the other senior (board level) ASF folks. (i'm happy to take active steps to ensure that ASF policy is enforced by the jakarta pmc - and any other project's i'm involved with - b

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
robert burrell donkin wrote: On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 08:13 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: A release requires 3 +1 and a majority of those voting, wherein the only people allowed to vote are the PMC responsible for that code. In other words, the usual rules apply -- it is simply harder to g

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 08:13 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: A release requires 3 +1 and a majority of those voting, wherein the only people allowed to vote are the PMC responsible for that code. In other words, the usual rules apply -- it is simply harder to get the votes. just to make sur

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: This has not been codified anywhere for the Incubator. Should I add this into the draft Charter for the PMC? under a draft prototype set of pmc bylaws, probably. i'm working on one now that i should be able to post in a couple of hours. Ken, Hoping you are aware t

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > > Is the rule below universal accross the ASF? I > thought it was up to the PMC of each project on > how to handle releases of sub-projects. > > This has not been codified anywhere for the > Incubator. Should I add this into the draft > Charter for the PMC? under a dr

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: This means that, legally speaking, the Incubator can decide to do releases and then remove a project, as also can be done with other projects. Nothing is immutable, again legally speaking. +1 - so releases are permitted (with caveats of course). 2 the incubator votes p

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Roy, Please do not take this the wrong way, I'm trying to be constructive :>. One of the things that's been driving me up the wall is quite a few people telling me "this is the way it must be done because the bylaws say so". But when I go to the bylaws, I get something much more vague - namel

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: At the end of the day we need to address the issue of wht rights the Incubator PMC has to endorce the publication of an artifact generated by a project prior to the exit of said project from the incubator. Publication by a Sponoring Entiry

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Stephen McConnell wrote: > > At the end of the day we need to address the issue of wht rights the > Incubator PMC has to endorce the publication of an artifact generated by > a project prior to the exit of said project from the incubator. > Publication by a Sponoring Entiry is a different subje

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Danny Angus
Stephhen, "At the end of the day we need to address the issue of wht rights the Incubator PMC has to endorce the publication of an artifact generated by a project prior to the exit of said project from the incubator. Publication by a Sponoring Entiry is a different subject - but publication

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Danny Angus
Stephen, While you say "Ok - going with Apache tradition - its not the PMC that makes the decision of a *release*. Its the committers in the incubator (who basically represent a bunch of rather non-incubator interest groups). " In fact while that represents the Jakarta tradition I think it

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Roy T. Fielding wrote: Ok - going with Apache tradition - its not the PMC that makes the decision of a *release*. BZZZT. According to the bylaws, the only people authorized to make decisions on behalf of the ASF (including the decision to release code to the general public) are officers or

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
HO) responsible for publication - only because it can override the opinions of the Incuabtor PMC as to readiness of a technical artifact - as distinct from the readiness of a community baking a artifact. Cheers, Steve. Everything else could almost be case by case. Cheers, Berin From:

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Ok - going with Apache tradition - its not the PMC that makes the decision of a *release*. BZZZT. According to the bylaws, the only people authorized to make decisions on behalf of the ASF (including the decision to release code to the general public) are officers or the PMC responsible for the

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Roy T. Fielding wrote: A release requires 3 +1 and a majority of those voting, wherein the only people allowed to vote are the PMC responsible for that code. In other words, the usual rules apply -- it is simply harder to get the votes. I am kind of surprised that folks think it would be any di

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Berin Lautenbach
"Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: incubator, exit and publication > Date: 26/09/2003 17:13:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A release requires 3 +1 and a majority of those voting, wherein > the only people allowed to vote are the PMC responsible for that

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
A release requires 3 +1 and a majority of those voting, wherein the only people allowed to vote are the PMC responsible for that code. In other words, the usual rules apply -- it is simply harder to get the votes. I am kind of surprised that folks think it would be any different. Roy ---

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-26 Thread Berin Lautenbach
be undertaken until there is sign of that all legal ownership issues have been covered off. Everything else could almost be case by case. Cheers, Berin > > From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: incubator, exit and publication > Date: 26/09/2003 16:54:29 &

incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen McConnell
I'm been following the messages concerning exit criteria and releases and I see a conflict. If a project is under incubation, then it is not accepted into Apache and therfore the content that is generating is simply content under observation - not Apache content. As such, how can a such a pro