Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
This has been the subject of prior conversations, but I'm opening a thread in some hope of reaching a definitive resolution. Some of our non-graduating podlings have a common problem. They look good in all ways except growth. This inhibits graduation from 2.5 standpoints: 1) they are dubiously la

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
> If the Incubator is not sure that a podling is small but healthy, then > would the board be in a better position to make that judgement after > graduation? In the case at hand (Isis), I'd propose that the IPMC could assert that they are healthy -- with an asterix. Never having seen them incorpor

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
ast > as others of course. > We should try to get at bit more folks interrested. > > > But they have 3, 4 frequent committers which do a very good job. And the team > has really good community skills! > Thus I'm not yet particularly worried. > > LieGrue, >

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> Sam, >> >> Rather than argue about the existence and interpretation of messages >> about squashing stale podlings, how about this adjustment to my >&

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:28 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Benson Margulies >>> wrote: >>>> Sam, >>&

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
earning here is that my topic needs to go take a rest until the topic of non-responsible mentors is under control. > > Upayavira > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 08:10 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Benson Margulies >> wrote: >> > >>

Re: Maven coordinate for incubating podlings

2012-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Alan D.Cabrera [mailto:l...@toolazydogs.com] >>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:47 PM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>Subject: Maven coordinate for incubating podlings >> >>It's my understanding t

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> ...Ignore the proposal. It is out of date, since the podling has already >> started. The Bloodhound and Trac communities already have a new non-fork >> plan and are executing on th

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:49 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. > wrote: >> It is not helpful to have a number of directors contradicting each >> other on general@, never coming to consensus.  In fact, its maddening. > > I see no indication of

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Michael Stroucken wrote: > Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >> Let's stop discussing this issue in the abstract then and take >> a look at the current set of reports.  Of the ones with signatures >> of mentors, I see very little to gripe about- the topics and subjects >> are

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
And here we return to a thread of some weeks ago. One chair can't review all those reports and push the bounce buttons. Some other people have to step up to help. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, ant elder wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:58

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
ect. The situation will resolve itself one way or the > other soon. > > Regards, >        Stuart > > > On 11 Jan 2012, at 23:05, ant elder wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Benson Margu

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
his discussion.  Both people who > agree with me and people see things differently.  Anything would be > better than mindlessly forwarding on reports without actually reading > them. > >> On 11 Jan 2012, at 23:05, ant elder wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10

Re: Parking Projects [WAS Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)]

2012-01-15 Thread Benson Margulies
I would appreciate it if the participants in this discussion would be really clear about their views about several different podling profiles. a: A reasonably diverse group of 5-7 people start a podling. A year later, they've made a release or two, but no one new has turned up. Mentors attest to g

Re: [RT] Community over policy, and similar thoughts

2012-01-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Don, I think that place where you, Leo, and Sam meet up is in the identification and clarification of *minimal* legal and procedural requirements. Sam's repeated over and over that he is, in effect, trying to establish the minimal level of oversight and supervision of podlings (and that the quest

Re: [VOTE] Apache OpenNLP as a TLP

2012-01-18 Thread Benson Margulies
diately below be and > hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the > Apache OpenNLP Project: > > William Silvia > Thomas Morton > Jason Baldridge > James Kosin > Jörn Kottmann > Aliaksandr Autayeu > Boris Galitsky > Grant Ingersoll > Bens

Re: PPMC to IPMC

2012-01-19 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Karl Wright wrote: > My opinion: It's one thing to try to involve yourself in the fortunes > of one or two projects in addition to your own, and be willing to > provide general opinions, and be willing to contribute content to the > incubator's policy pages.  But t

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Lucene.Net 2.9.4g incubating

2012-01-24 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, sebb wrote: > On 23 January 2012 06:20, Prescott Nasser wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Lucene.Net 2.9.4g is ready for release. >> >> >> >> This is very similar to our release at the end of November, however we have >> used >> generics where appropriate to g

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-01-28 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > When did you resign? Noel hasn't, as far as I have been able to track the email, formally resigned. He sent email stating that he was willing to step aside if the community wanted to elect someone else. Someone could nominate him now, in f

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-01-29 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > >> On 1/29/2012 12:11 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >>> >>> I intend to nominate Noel J. Bergman but would like to see the community >>> come to a consensus about the rotation of th

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-01-29 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to nominate Noel to continue as chair. Noel hasn't resigned, and we don't have a consensus on rotation. So I think any vote we hold to recommend a chair to the board should include the option of his sticking in place unless he chooses to remove himself from the running. --

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-01-29 Thread Benson Margulies
> +1 > But shouldn't we agree on a rotationi/reelection before we do the nominations? Christian, I hate to repeat myself, but could I direct your attention to my recent message? If you think that a rotation policy should come first, start a thread proposing a rotation policy, and we can all leave

Re: [DISCUSSION] Regular rotation PMC chair

2012-01-29 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Ate Douma wrote: > >> >> FTR: as should be clear from my above response, I disagree with the topic of >> this discussion thread. This should be about Regular (re)election of the PMC >> Chair. Regular rotatio

Re: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator

2012-01-31 Thread Benson Margulies
Dear Proposed Syncope mentors: Please post messages on this thread indicating your prior experience as mentors, if any, and your willing to remain in place as active mentors for at least a year. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Mark Strube

Re: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator

2012-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
I apologize if my choice of words here engendered a belief that I was trying to hold mentors to a new standard. The IPMC has been discussing the problem of mentors who don't do their job. I'm trying to approach this problem from the front end, instead of waiting for it to be a problem later on. I

Re: Mentor attrition

2012-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
There has been a lot of heated email sent on the incubator lists in the last few months. It was my mistake not to realize that my email asking about mentor commitment and experience would be read in the light of that context. I don't claim to know why the mentor-less podlings lost their mentors, a

Re: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator

2012-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
The word 'justification' occurred nowhere in my email. Nonetheless, I already apologized for my poor choice of tone. I could see someone reading my query as calling for a 'resume', but I prefer to think of it as an 'introduction.' I will continue to ask proposed podlings to draw a picture of their

Re: Incubator, or "Incubation"?

2012-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
At the risk of seeming trite, +1, but ... This lengthy proposal shifts the supervision responsibility of podlings from an big IPMC to a set of mentors approved by the board at the advice of a small iPMC. In other words, a project is born when three? foundation members, or others deemed appropriate

Re: Nomination of Chris Mattman for the IPMC Chair (was: Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair)

2012-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
don't we also have jukka? On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > We have already 2 good nominations for the IPMC chair role, Noel and Benson. > > I would like add a new name and nominate Chris Mattman as the IPMC > chair. He does care deeply on the incubator and expresses my fe

Re: Time to vote the chair?

2012-02-02 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm going to treat this like any other nomination process and provide a brief statement. Volunteeritis: I'm active on the CXF and Maven PMCs, and I am a bit of an uncle at Mahout and WS, and I've agreed to stick around as a PMC member on EmpireDB in transition from podling to TLP. My mentor invent

Re: Time to vote the chair?

2012-02-02 Thread Benson Margulies
I have a lateral thought. Assuming for the moment that Chris has accepted or will accept a nomination, why not recommend *both* of us to the board as co-chairs? The IPMC is special. New members pop up all the time and need to be fed to the board; projects need karmic assistance, etc. Having two wi

Re: Time to vote the chair?

2012-02-02 Thread Benson Margulies
called upon to play referee, except to make it my business to find out the rules promptly. As for what I think, I've written it. > > > > >> >> From: Benson Margulies >>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>Sent: Thursday, Fe

Re: Nomination of Chris Mattman for the IPMC Chair (was: Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair)

2012-02-03 Thread Benson Margulies
It seems to me that the proposed new scheme will take quite a bit of setting up. There is some writing to do. More to the point, if I were the board, I would want to pilot the new scheme for some time before tearing down the existing incubator. All of this looks to me like more than 2 months. A tr

Re: Time to vote the chair?

2012-02-03 Thread Benson Margulies
At this point I am going to frankly campaign for myself. I am willing to be the chair of the incubator as we know it, and strive to incrementally improve it. I have no objection to that process including a deliberate consideration of Chris' proposal for a radical restructuring. Given some time, th

Re: TL;DR

2012-02-03 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 3 February 2012 23:17, Benson Margulies wrote: >> One way to make the load lighter is to try to make one decision at a >> time. > > +1 > >> Entirely selfishly, I suggest looking at the chair election >&g

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I've added http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AlternativeIncubatorAnalysis to the wiki, offering a more or less concrete alternative that is more evolutionary and less revolutionary. Get out your darts, and feel free to edit. - To u

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
ocument, not just from you, and b) try > to remove as many names as possible.  It also might be helpful if the > proposal was worded as if Chris' didn't exist.  Just document what the > process would be and how it solves the problems we have now. > > Ralph > &g

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
t the >> process would be and how it solves the problems we have now. >> >> Ralph >> >> On Feb 4, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >>> I've added http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AlternativeIncubatorAnalysis >>> t

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
Ralph, I'm inclined to hair up the chart to distinguish 'podlings' from 'probationary projects'. Otherwise, fine. I'll do that. On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I s

Re: TL;DR

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Scott Wilson wrote: > >> On 3 Feb 2012, at 23:17, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >>> A number of people are asking for the incubator PMC to take a deep >>> breath and allow roo

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-04 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Ralph, I'm inclined to hair up the chart to distinguish 'podlings' >> from 'probationary projects'. Otherwise, fine. I'll do that. >

Re: PMC chair vs. reorg proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Benson Margulies
 Right now they are on very polar ends of the whole > discussion, which suggests neither until the incubator and board choose > a path forward. I don't find the formulation 'polar opposites' helpful, let alone prior remarks about whether the two of us can agree about something. It's not up to us

Re: PMC chair vs. reorg proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Benson Margulies
Bill characterized this situation as writing a proposal to the board to to blow up and replace the incubator, and that has colored my writing. Bill has also been the most vehement opponent of one of the possible evolutionary strategies: to elect people to the PMC on the strength (only) of their abi

Re: PMC chair vs. reorg proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Benson Margulies
ent. I will set my egg-timer to wait at least 24 hours before consuming any more bandwidth. --benson On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:44 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 2/6/2012 1:33 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> Bill has also been the most vehement opponent of one of the >> possible evo

Re: [VOTE][PROPOSAL] Syncope join the Incubator

2012-02-07 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 (binding) On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: > +1 (binding) > > LieGrue, > strub > > > > - Original Message - >> From: Emmanuel Lecharny >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 2:04 PM >> Subject: Re: [VOTE][PROPOSAL] Syncope joi

Re: [VOTE] Retire HISE from incubation

2012-02-07 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > +1, retire (I don't have a better opinion to throw at the problem than > the owning community :) > > Martijn > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As discussed earlier and now shown below, the HISE comm

Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair

2012-02-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I am happy to step out of the way for Jukka. He was clever enough to stay out of the email s*** storm, and that alone, in my mind, renders him most qualified. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > I already mentioned that I would have nominated you, and so I am > delighted

Re: [VOTE] Jukka Zitting for IPMC Chair (was Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair)

2012-02-09 Thread Benson Margulies
trated > here during these discussions, I will hold this VOTE on the public list. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > Chris > > P.S. Here's my +1. Thanks buddy. > > On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I am happy to step out of the way for Jukka. He

Re: [VOTE] Jukka Zitting for IPMC Chair (was Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair)

2012-02-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Benson Margulies >> wrote: >>> +1 (binding) >> >> +1 (binding) >> >>> From my perspective, Chris

Re: [VOTE] Release jena-tdb-0.9.0-incubating (RC2)

2012-02-12 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: > The Jena PPMC has voted to release > >  Apache Jena TDB 0.9.0-incubating > > and we would now be grateful if members of IPMC would review and vote for > this release. > > == Overview > > This will be the second incubator release for by Jen

Re: [VOTE] Apache Isis release 0.2.0-incubating (RC3)

2012-02-18 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Dan Haywood wrote: > Isis is in the process of voting on 0.2.0-incubating (RC3). > > The thread below has the details, along with current votes cast. > > We still need one more +1 from a member before we can release. > > I'd like to close this vote in 72 hour

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
-1 here. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: > strictly -1 for forcing a name change on graduation. > > That would just cause additional overhead without any benefit. > > LieGrue, > strub > > > > - Original Message - >> From: Greg Stein >> To: general@incubator.apache.o

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't think it's a good question. I think that it is typical of the sort of hypothetical question which leads to heaps of scorn from Sam. I can imagine circumstances where it would make some sense, and some cases where it would be evidence of a serious problem in a TLP. The Foundation is suppos

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > +1 > > Niall > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: >> This is a call for vote to graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator. >> >> Sqoop entered Incubator in June of 2011. Since then it has added three >> new c

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] accumulo graduation

2012-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
+0 votes > 0 -1  votes > > IPMC: > +1 Alan Cabrera > +1 Benson Margulies > > Committer/PPMC: > +1 Adam Fuchs > +1 David Medinets > +1 Chris Waring > +1 Eric Newton > +1 John Vines > +1 Keith Turner > > Community: > +1 Michael Van Geertruy > &

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies >> wrote: >> > Leo, are you out there? >> >> Hmm? Oh, this again... >> >> Having

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alex Karasulu >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons wrote: >> > >> >> O

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Accumulo to TLP

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm willing to be added or voted if the community wants to keep me around. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Leo Simons wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Billie J Rinaldi > wrote: >> Please vote on recommending the graduation of >> Apache Accumulo with the following resolution to >> the ASF

Re: Thoughts on Incubator board reports

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
Jukka's recent email and activity are precisely what I was hoping for when I joined the chorus of voices for new leadership. On this thread, I have a thought or two. Of the podlings I have known, most required very little supervision. The single largest exception has always been getting the first

Accumulo graduation vote?

2012-03-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Folks, I'm a little puzzled by the lack of response here. No one's objecting, but not much of anyone's voting +1, either. The board meeting looms. Not that it would be the end of the world if it takes another month, but they'd just as soon get on with it. --benson ---

Re: Accumulo graduation vote?

2012-03-11 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:29 PM, ant elder wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I'm a little puzzled by the lack of response here. No one's objecting, >> but not much of anyone's voting +1, either. The

Re: [VOTE] Release Jena Fuseki 0.2.1-incubating

2012-03-21 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Leo Simons wrote: > +1 from me. > > Can we get 2 more IPMC votes? > > (Checked KEYS, signatures, LICENSEs, NOTICEs, license headers. Built > source release, watched maven download the internet. Ran compiled > source and binary distribution and played with web

Re: Simplifying podling infra

2012-03-26 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > Currently new podlings have most of their infrastructure (lists, web > site, svn, etc.) set up under incubator.apache.org and > repos/asf/incubator. As a consequence they need to perform an extra > infrastructure migration when t

Re: Binary dependencies in source releases (Was: [VOTE] Release ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating, RC0)

2012-03-28 Thread Benson Margulies
Roy, Of course you, personally, can't be expected to supervise all projects or fix all documentation. At the same time, there's something a little depressing about the situation. On the one hand, the principle at work here is, to paraphrase you, absolutely central to the defined mission of the Fou

Re: Binary dependencies in source releases (Was: [VOTE] Release ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating, RC0)

2012-03-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Roy T. Fielding > wrote: > > Yes, it's called a -deps package, and individuals occasionally produce > > them and even redistribute them from our servers (as binaries). > > So, to move this discussion

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
Karl, I hope that you are making this too hard. We don't care about the contents of someone else's binaries. If you make and deploy a -deps package of third-party binaries, as a convenience for your users, it can contain any strange mixture of sources and binaries it contains. If you provide a s

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
se are covered by the Apache 2.0 license. > > Karl > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, sebb wrote: >> On 2 April 2012 17:53, Benson Margulies wrote: >>> Karl, >>> >>> I hope that you are making this too hard. >>> >>> We don't car

Re: [IMPC] [VOTE] Graduate Apache Jena as a Top Level Project

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 binding mentor On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: >> ...We ask that the IPMC approve this graduation request though this VOTE. > > [X ] +1 Recommend to the ASF Board that Apache Jena Proposal >      is ready to gr

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
Karl, I'm exceedingly sorry here that the IPMC as a whole let you down by not turning into these issues and dealing with them at the outset. There's been a lot of sensitivity expressed lately to Apache projects stepping on each other's toes. Personally, I have no objection to including mutant jar

Re: [VOTE] Release Jena LARQ 1.0.0-incubating

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Paolo Castagna wrote: > Hi, > here is a vote on a release for Apache Jena LARQ module: > jena-larq-1.0.0-incubating. > > Please vote to approve this release: > >   [ ] +1 Approve the release >   [ ]  0 Don't care >   [ ] -1 Don't release, because ... > > This vo

Re: [VOTE] Graduate JSPWiki from Incubator

2012-04-16 Thread Benson Margulies
Graduation is very much *not* about maturity of the code, and very much about maturity of the community. 2012/4/16 Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez : > Hi Ross, > > no worries, community voting is also meant to bring up this kind of > conversations too. I will try to -briefly- express my opinion. > > Y

Re: Mentor cleanup

2012-05-03 Thread Benson Margulies
>  Lucene.NET >  - active: Stefan Bodewig >  - inactive: Benson Margulies, Gianugo Rabellino Guilty as charged. I didn't even realize that I was a mentor until comparatively recently, and I keep thinking that they will graduate any minute. I'm not set up to test their releases

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Benson Margulies
If you don't want to be a Shepherd, don't sign up. The board asked us to do a better job of reviewing reports and detecting mentor deficiencies. This is a plan to accomplish that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incu

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I was late to volunteer. Do you have any leftover projects? On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I've done my shepherd reviews and made one comment (about Amber) on > this list). I'm not sure where you want general observations recording > but I have moved the projects to the rec

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, the Wiki page explicitly says that the chair will assign. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > No such thing as "leftover". Doubling up (or more) is just fine. > > Q is whether there are some under-reviewed... > On May 8, 2012 6:40 AM, "Benson Ma

Policy for new committers to podlings

2012-05-18 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm embarrassed to report that I'm feeling a bit foggy on the new committer policy, and a quick tour with google failed to find it on a web page. We're long on pages about initial podling setup, and not so long on others. So, if a podling has held a vote for a new contributor, what exactly happens

Re: Policy for new committers to podlings

2012-05-18 Thread Benson Margulies
Yes, thank you both. Every so often maxwel's daemon sends all the google results to the wrong side of the internet for me. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Billie J Rinaldi wrote: > On Friday, May 18, 2012 2:03:39 PM, "Benson Margulies" > wrote: >> I'm embarras

Re: PhotArk down to one mentor

2012-05-21 Thread Benson Margulies
Looks like I could pitch in on this one. On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Sunday, May 20, 2012, Jukka Zitting wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just talked to Martin Cooper who was listed as a PhotArk mentor >> together with Luciano Resende. Martin actually resigned from the IPM

Re: Flume Graduation (was Re: June reports in two weeks)

2012-05-23 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > Right after I read Jukka's email that started this thread and I posted my > reply and discovered to my shock that they had started a graduation vote.  I > am shocked because I have pointed out repeatedly the project's complete lack > of div

Re: [VOTE] Accept Crunch into the Apache Incubator

2012-05-24 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 (binding) ... And a friendly reminder to the ppmc via their mentors -- in response to that email about limiting the initial committers to a tight group. They will soon be learning that the big challenge of incubation is not writing a lot of code, its recruiting new faces. They'll want to switch

JIRA and communities

2012-05-25 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > On 24 May 2012 06:15, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I've met other groups of people who like a JIRA centric view >> of the world. I suspect that if they did a bunch of other good things >> called out below,

Re: JIRA and communities

2012-05-26 Thread Benson Margulies
So, what message here should the incubator send a podling, or the foundation send a TLP? I really don't mean this as a rhetorical question at all, I'm honestly puzzled. In the case of Lucene, I've been hanging out for months, and I feel perfectly confident that it's a healthy community by any found

Re: JIRA and communities

2012-05-26 Thread Benson Margulies
Marvin, I am at your disposal to collaborate on something here; note my reply at infrastructure@. It seems to me that this thread would largely go better over there, now that the caveat that 'a podling run entirely on JIRA may have community problems' has been delivered. --benson ---

Re: [DISCUSS] Crunch to join the Apache Incubator

2012-05-26 Thread Benson Margulies
I'll see Jukka one and raise him one. I have advised potential podlings to be very conservative with their initial list, and keep some potential contributors in their collective back pocket. This gives them a ready-made source of community growth, which is typically the scarcest and most precious c

Re: Open enrollment

2012-05-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Ross, I can see why my 'sandbag' approach makes you uncomfortable. I've suggested it once or twice when a proposed podling had a lot of interested parties already involved. This is a two-edged situation. On the one hand, instant size and diversity. On the other hand, that may represent the pool of

Re: Open enrollment

2012-05-28 Thread Benson Margulies
I know that I, and I think that Marvin, got a bit distracted by their exact choice of wording. I join him in agreeing with you that the people proposing a podling should be entitled, no, encouraged, to control their list of initial collaborators. Also note the other email in this thread about wanti

Re: Flume Graduation (was Re: June reports in two weeks)

2012-05-29 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Doesn't the IPMC (and not any individuals, even Roy) decide what the > official Incubation policies should be?  Ralph's reply, and my general > reading of the feeling in the IPMC is that graduation votes *should* take > affiliation diversity

Re: diversity

2012-06-05 Thread Benson Margulies
The diversity (so-called) requirement is often stated in terms of the risk of the project being stranded if a company changes course. From what I see around the Foundation, this is usually a risk much akin to the risk of all the air molecules congregating in one corner of the room at the board F2F,

Re: Isis status (Was: [Incubator Wiki] Update of "June2012" by DanHaywood)

2012-06-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the report, Isis! > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Apache Wiki wrote: >> +   - only really one issue: need to demonstrate can bring in at least one >> +     new committer.  At that point, we feel that we have done enou

[DISCUSS] Kato to the attic?

2012-06-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Wearing the very small hat of shepherd, I write to start a discussion of moving Kato to the attic. The last sign of activity was at the last reporting period, and the only activity then was for one contributor to note that he had really no time to spend on the project and the future needed to be d

[VOTE] Retire Kato

2012-06-26 Thread Benson Margulies
Based on the status of this podling as reported in the June board report, I propose that the IPMC retire the Kato podling. I'm not sure how long a vote for this should remain open. here is my +1. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: genera

Re: [VOTE] Retire Kato

2012-07-01 Thread Benson Margulies
ours. > > On Jun 26, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Based on the status of this podling as reported in the June board >> report, I propose that the IPMC retire the Kato podling. >> >> I'm n

Shepherding: chukwa, mesos, directmemory

2012-07-01 Thread Benson Margulies
Chuckwa looks pretty normal; report in place, traffic on mailing list. I don't see any particular cause for concern. Neither DirectMemory or Mesos has filed a report yet, but also their dev lists look pretty good. DirectMemory does seem to lack a developer resource page on their web site that poin

Re: Shepherding: chukwa, mesos, directmemory

2012-07-01 Thread Benson Margulies
Let me try this again. > Chuckwa looks pretty normal; report in place, traffic on mailing list. > I don't see any particular cause for concern. It's one of our podlings that is all set except for not having added committers. Mentors, do you think they could graduate anyhow? > > Neither DirectMemo

Re: Shepherding: chukwa, mesos, directmemory

2012-07-01 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> Let me try this again. >> >>> Chuckwa looks pretty normal; report in place, traffic on mailing list. >>> I don't see any particular ca

Re: UMA Implementation

2012-07-04 Thread Benson Margulies
to be your 'champion' for this purpose if you decide to go here, or perhaps some other member of the Incubator PMC will step up who has an interest. Thanks, Benson Margulies On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Suleman Khan wrote: > Dear All, > > In Fraunhofer AISEC, we develop

Re: Shepherd for EasyAnt

2012-07-04 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Nicolas Lalevée wrote: > >> >> Le 3 juil. 2012 à 19:00, Jukka Zitting a écrit : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Nicolas Lalevée >>> wrote: The primary target for Easyant will be being a sub

Re: [VOTE] Retire AWF from incubation

2012-07-04 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Roger Schildmeijer wrote: > Hi, > > The AWF community has voted to retire the project. > Following the retirement guide [1], I now call the Incubator PMC to vote on > confirming this decision. (Will be open for 72 hours). > >[ ] +1 Retire the AWF project >[

What does 'project sponsorship' mean now?

2012-07-05 Thread Benson Margulies
A thread on the subject of EasyAnt highlighted some perplexity for me, and I think that it deserves a thread of its own. Once upon a time, the Foundation had a set of 'Umbrella projects'. These were PMCs that managed a collection of 'sub-projects', each considered a relatively independent communit

Re: Preparing for July report

2012-07-05 Thread Benson Margulies
I probably should have been clearer about my mediocre availability for Shepherding activities until 17 July. I will be happy to become a burr under the saddle of these projects as needed them, but I'm not in a position to be helpful in beating reports out of them. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM

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