Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Am still waiting for someone to point out to an actual problem ("factually incorrect press releases"). Last time i checked, people pay to put out press releases to make them look good. ("seek to spin Synapse into something that makes other companies look good."). May be j

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Steven Noels
On 02 Sep 2005, at 06:53, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Why is it just us catching the flak? Because we feel you're one of us, rather than one of "them". Look at it as a token of ultimate appreciation. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Henri Yandell
On 9/2/05, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2005 10:28, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > Several people on WS-PMC offered to help infra. They were turned down > > as they are not members. > > This has been my impression as well. > > infra@ is begging for help, but see

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
Henri Yandell wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Several people on WS-PMC offered to help infra. They were turned down > > > as they are not members. > > > > This has been my impression as well. > > > > infra@ is begging for help, but seems to have problem with; > >

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
On 02-09-2005 04:28, "Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people on WS-PMC offered to help infra. They were turned down > as they are not members. NACK. There are lots of ways to help. I remember writing several e-mails detailing how. There are several non-members actively helpi

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
On 02-09-2005 08:27, "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 14:19 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> Now, I have suggested before, and still do, that infra starts/becomes a >> standard ASF project, source code, site, jira, wiki, dev mailing list and all >> the normal

Re: a few steps before approving a project

2005-09-02 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On September 1, 2005 8:41:11 PM +1000 Berin Lautenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are far more checks already. To get a project approved you need a full resolution signed by the board. A better analogy would be voting on a new PMC member. No PMC requires *a

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
On 02-09-2005 10:55, "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leo's been behind a lot of design plans for that, and there's a CA > tool looming on the horizon. An improvement here would be for someone > (Leo?) to give us a better overall plan of what's requested and where > it fits. (...) > But

Re: a few steps before approving a project

2005-09-02 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Roy T. Fielding wrote: I am generally opposed to any of the suggestions that we add more constraints to incubation (aside from a general constraint of no new projects, which I can understand for infrastructure reasons alone). What we need is more documentation, not more rules. +1 --

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 02 September 2005 17:42, Leo Simons wrote: > By all means, please help make it happen! Step 1 is subscribing to > infrastructure _at_ apache _dot_ org, if you haven't already. After almost 2 years of trying to find angles of helping out, I finally gave up and unsubscribed a few weeks ba

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Leo, Specifically 2 people asked read persmissions on the files. they were told that's not possible. Am NOT talking about root privs. -- dims On 9/2/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02-09-2005 04:28, "Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several people on WS-PMC offered

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Hehe, thanks :) -- dims On 9/2/05, Steven Noels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02 Sep 2005, at 06:53, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Why is it just us catching the flak? > > Because we feel you're one of us, rather than one of "them". Look at it > as a token of ultimate appreciation. > > > --

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Erik Abele
On 02.09.2005, at 13:03, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 17:42, Leo Simons wrote: By all means, please help make it happen! Step 1 is subscribing to infrastructure _at_ apache _dot_ org, if you haven't already. After almost 2 years of trying to find angles of helping out,

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Erik Abele
On 02.09.2005, at 14:07, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Leo, Specifically 2 people asked read persmissions on the files. they were told that's not possible. Am NOT talking about root privs. Which files? Why? Who? Cheers, Erik -- dims On 9/2/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02-09-20

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 2, 2005, at 4:22 AM, Steven Noels wrote: On 02 Sep 2005, at 06:53, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Why is it just us catching the flak? Because we feel you're one of us, rather than one of "them". Look at it as a token of ultimate appreciation. Here here! :) IMO, this is the type of

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Sal and Ian from HP expressed interest on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices-general&m=111901932102075&w=2 I gave them the pointers: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices-general&m=111901966108282&w=2 They started a thread in infra@ mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Erik Abele
On 02.09.2005, at 14:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Sal and Ian from HP expressed interest on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices- general&m=111901932102075&w=2 Quoting: "What are the steps for me to get set up w/ admin rights for SVN? Once I get set up, I'll read up o

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
I understand compeltely. that's how i got (earned?) my wings. Let's make this explicit about what we are looking for from a newbie :) +1 to opening up repo. thanks, dims On 9/2/05, Erik Abele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02.09.2005, at 14:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Sal and Ian from HP

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Marinschek
Well, after following this thread (even though not actively taking part) I'd say the stereotype of large and close Italian families fits even better. Which is just fine with me, being born just 30km from the Italian border ;) regards, Martin P.S.: Can you cook some spaghetti, Mamma mia ;) ? O

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 02 September 2005 20:23, Erik Abele wrote: I honestly don't feel like "fueling" this thread, so please don't hesitate to say I am outright stupid and don't know what I am talking about, and I'll shut up as a good citizen... My intention is not to "whine". > Why isn't that working for

Re: Software grants Was: a few steps before approving a project

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 1, 2005 10:50:53 PM -0400 Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Figuring out how the sandbox(es) and the incubator work together is increasingly flagging on my attention list. Sam's list of rules is the most concrete thing I've seen so far: * If the SVN tree was always on ASF

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Erik Abele
On 02.09.2005, at 17:25, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 20:23, Erik Abele wrote: I honestly don't feel like "fueling" this thread, so please don't hesitate to say I am outright stupid and don't know what I am talking about, and I'll shut up as a good citizen... My intent

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 2, 2005 7:24:54 PM +0200 Erik Abele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, infra could say 'no' more often or could simply shut down the services they don't want to administer. To be honest, I'd be fine with this (and its consequences (people/projects leaving, flamewars, what-have-you)

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Sep 1, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Am hurt by the words "You turned this into a Web Services marketing event" (Though i made it really clear multiple times that there was only on press release that i was part of and that was vetted by the prc@) But i will live and learn. Am stil

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
Niclas, On 02-09-2005 17:25, "Niclas Hedhman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I honestly don't feel like "fueling" this thread, so please don't hesitate to > say I am outright stupid and don't know what I am talking about, and I'll > shut up as a good citizen... My intention is not to "whine". In th

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Roy, Understood. Please see the reply from Sanjiva about Foo vs "Apache Foo" (message id is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) thanks, dims On 9/2/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 1, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Am hurt by the words "You turned this into a Web Servic

Re: Recent Incubator proposals ( was Re: a few steps before approving a project)

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 2, 2005 11:54:50 AM -0700 "Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I think Justin was fed up with the stdcxx folks. The Gartner crap (which is always crap) just happened to come along at the wrong time. For the record (since this is a public list), the stdcxx iss

stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Sebor
In an effort is to make it easier for people to download and experiment with the stdcxx library and become interested in contributing to the development of the podling, the stdcxx community voted on and approved a proposal to make a stable snapshot of the stdcxx sources available for download. Fol

incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
I've talked with the developers of the jabberd2 server [1] about the possibility of initiating their Jabber/XMPP server into the ways of Apache. They're open to and interested in incubation and would like to know if Apache folks might be interested, too. If so, I'll work with them to develop a

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
+1 from me .. Sanjiva. On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 15:03 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > I've talked with the developers of the jabberd2 server [1] about the > possibility of initiating their Jabber/XMPP server into the ways of > Apache. They're open to and interested in incubation and would like t

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
I forgot to ask .. are there any companies involved or is this a project of a collection of developers? Sanjiva. On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 15:03 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > I've talked with the developers of the jabberd2 server [1] about the > possibility of initiating their Jabber/XMPP server

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 2, 2005 3:03:08 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've talked with the developers of the jabberd2 server [1] about the possibility of initiating their Jabber/XMPP server into the ways of Apache. They're open to and interested in incubation and would like to kn

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation Policy, we would now like to request the permission of the Incubator PMC to make the snapshot available via a link from the stdcxx Download page: http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/download.html +1 - the next threshold/metr

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 2, 2005 4:13:31 PM -0500 "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Sebor wrote: Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation Policy, we would now like to request the permission of the Incubator PMC to make the snapshot available via a link from the stdcxx D

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: I forgot to ask .. are there any companies involved or is this a project of a collection of developers? No companies (yet), just freelance open-source developers. Peter smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Can you please clarify how you envision this cooperating with the Jabber Software Foundation? I'm not 100% clear on the JSF's relationship to Jabber - I realize who you are, so I doubt that it is going to be a problem. We've had some problems lately on this front wit

Re: incubating jabberd2?

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 2, 2005 3:44:46 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: recently Google have written implementations of the protocols). So the JSF is kind of like an open W3C or mini IETF and its work would not overlap in any way with the ASF as far as I can see. Excellent. ;-)

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Incubator PMC must ratify any votes by the incubated projects, IIUC. Bill Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On September 2, 2005 4:13:31 PM -0500 "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Sebor wrote: Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation Policy, we would now like to

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I'm not really clear what the approval process is here on the part of the full Incubator PMC. Bill, do you know? Or, is it hidden on the website somewhere? ;-) -- justin http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases%0D Cheers, Be

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On September 3, 2005 10:30:49 AM +1000 Berin Lautenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases%0D I saw that, but it's not very helpful as it says: "Such approval SHALL be given only after the Incubator PMC has followed the process

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On September 3, 2005 10:30:49 AM +1000 Berin Lautenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases%0D I saw that, but it's not very helpful as it says: "Such approval SHALL be given only after the Incubator

Re: a few steps before approving a project

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Cliff Schmidt wrote: > I'd like to suggest a few changes to the process of approving new > project proposals. I think I like your goals and some of your plans, but question whether its smart to paint this as "changes to process". Just see how far you get w

Re: stdcxx snapshot

2005-09-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:16:58PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I'm not really clear what the approval process is here on the part of the > full Incubator PMC. Bill, do you know? Or, is it hidden on the website > somewhere? ;-) -- justin We vote. You know, 3 +1s, stuff, like httpd has

Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

2005-09-02 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 03 September 2005 02:56, Leo Simons wrote: > What *is* your intention? Are you helping us out here? How? In 2003, I was signing up for the infra@ list, on the basis of "I think I should really try to help out there, since it is what makes ASF tick." The message was essentially, hang a