Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Marnie McCormack
All, Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is not a simple preference issue. Regards, Marnie On 3/5/08, Carl Trieloff

Qpid Status page, was Re: Graduation resolution feedback - Qpid as TLP

2008-03-05 Thread Luciano Resende
Shouldn't Qpid Status page (news section) have information regarding releases, voting new committers, etc These information help others to have an idea of the project dynamics ? See example [1]. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tuscany.html On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Carl Trieloff <[

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Roland Weber
Marnie McCormack wrote: All, Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. Does that mean they are contributing in their private time rather than as part of their jobs? If so, they should be considered as independents. If

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread sebb
On 05/03/2008, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marnie McCormack wrote: > > All, > > > > Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position > > disclosing their employer in Apache world. > > > Does that mean they are contributing in their private time rather >

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Daniel Kulp
Another option would be to not consider the people that cannot disclose their employers when considering the diversity of the project. If there are 15 people, and 5 cannot disclose their employer, only consider the diversity of the remaining people. Kind of the "err on the side of caution

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Carl Trieloff
sebb wrote: On 05/03/2008, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marnie McCormack wrote: > All, > > Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position > disclosing their employer in Apache world. Does that mean they are contributing in their private time rather

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Marnie McCormack wrote: > Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position > disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal > document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is > not a simple preference issue. Mind you, they a

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roland Weber wrote: > If contributing to the project is part of their job responsibilities, > they should be required to disclose the employer. That has not been made a stringent requirement, but see my response to Melanie for what *is* a requirement. --- Noel

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Daniel Kulp write: > a quick svn log on their SVN repo for all commits since Jan 1 [suggests that] > all but 4 commits since Jan 1 can easily be contributed to RedHat employees. > I think the above should provide enough information about the health and > diversity of the community that actually wo

Re: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Marnie McCormack wrote: Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is not a simple prefere