Re: Posting and tracking project tasks

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: To a certain extent, the incubator is evolving, too. If evolving procedures that are not being disseminated, that's one problem. I propose that a good way to address this situation will be to make active use of the new JIRA install, Serge and I have scheduled for next Thu

Re: Disclaimer text for incubated projects

2003-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: From my point of view, "disclaimer" page would be enough and the best "alternative". +1 -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

Re: Disclaimer text for incubated projects

2003-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the . Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized

Re: incubation disclaimer and infrastructural reshuffle

2003-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: I would go further. Essentially, a release by a podling would require a vote by the incubator PMC to do so. a release by *any* project requires its supervising PMC to vote it through. Since for podlings, the supervising PMC is by definition the incubator PMC

Re: Disclaimer text for incubated projects

2003-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
David Jencks wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 03:20 AM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: == Releases == As podlings are not yet fully accepted as part of the Apache Software Foundation, any software releases (including code held in publically available CVS) made by Podlings will not be endorse

Re: Proposal: Sponsor becomes Mentor

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The name "Sponsoring Entity" is wierd, and the more I think of it, the more it seems artificial. What we need is something that sponsors the project, and will accept it, and someone that mentors the project, which are 2 concepts, not 3 as now. Nicolas: I'm +1 on

Re: projects "in" versus "entering" versus "affiliated with" the incubator

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodney Waldhoff wrote: * I'd suggest the term "candidate" (as is used in Roles_and_Responsibilities) or "project" (as in "incubating [sub]project"), or even the term "pod", rather than the diminutive "podlet" in describing the "entity being incubated" +1 -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAI

Re: Proposal: Sponsor becomes Mentor

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The name "Sponsoring Entity" is wierd, and the more I think of it, the more it seems artificial. Yup. It was the best I could think of at the time :<. What we need is something that sponsors the project, and w

Re: Proposal: Sponsor becomes Mentor

2003-10-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Just wondering who the mentor is for the Directory Project? I would suspect that Noel is the official Sponsor however I have not seen any discussions concerning the projects mentor. AFAIK, Nicola Ken and I are doing that duty. Also wanted to check and see

Re: Common naming accross policy/process/roles

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Hi gang, Okay, okay, I'm exaggerating. Its real cool there's people volunteering to write all this stuff, and the drafts are not *that* formal. I'm just suggesting we make it easy for ourselves and don't try to write "perfect" and "waterproof" docs. W

Re: Common naming accross policy/process/roles

2003-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I also want to make sure that we well know where things stand in every incubation moment, as there has been enough confusion withdouble-triple PMC concurrent votes. +1 That said, I also think that we need *one* do

Re: Common naming accross policy/process/roles

2003-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: If we want to make sure something is non-normative, it's very simple (and appropriate) to put a rider paragraph in it stating that where it conflicts with the policy, the policy over-rides. That's a common approach and gets over having to worry too much about what nam

Re: status of FTP Server project

2003-10-31 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I need to be able to use the FTPServer within my process (for junit-based testing purposes). Is there a way I can do that ? Here is an example [1] of a junit-based test that includes an embedded container. The test code that pulls in named services and does wh

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:57, Roy T. Fielding wrote: I think that producing a single repository, or at least a set of mechanisms that allow a single storage facility to look like a repository with multiple interfaces, is a task for infrastructure and commons to work out (m

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Roy T. Fielding wrote: Small note - some of the participants on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] are discussing the actual requirements - which from my (and other) point(s) of view go beyond a file-system http protocol cut-and-dried implementation solution. Some consider this area to be much more than an

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 21:47, Stephen McConnell wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: Small note - some of the participants on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] are discussing the actual requirements - which from my (and other) point(s) of view go beyond a file-system http protocol cut

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:18, Stephen McConnell wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: I have challenged you to give me a scenerio that I can't satisfy with something like the current Maven repository. Instead you drone on ad nauseum about the theoretical. Let

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:35, Stephen McConnell wrote: Jason: I must confess that I am intrigued by your approach to collaboration! That's because you're at least as deficient as I am in the realm of collaboration. Neither you or I are any great shining e

Re: [Possible Incubation] Apache Repo

2003-11-11 Thread Stephen McConnell
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Stephen McConnell wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:08, Stephen McConnell wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:35, Stephen McConnell wrote: Jason: I must confess that I am intrigued

Re: [RT] Multiple Mentors

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola, I suppose the only slight reservation would be who is accountable? The old "Fred Bloggs is looking after that" can kick in. I think the Incubator PMC also wants to be able to hold people accountable for inubation activities. Gets

Re: [RT] Multiple Mentors

2003-11-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola, I suppose the only slight reservation would be who is accountable? The old "Fred Bloggs is looking after that" can kick in. I think the Incubator PMC also wants to be able to hold

Re: [RT] Multiple Mentors

2003-11-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: ... > An important aspect here is visibility of status and pending actions. This takes me back to the discussion about using JIRA - that's the sort of example where I could checkout open-actions on any incubator project - and based

Re: [VOTE] Incubate Apache Repo

2003-11-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: +1 if you mean to incubate a particular project, since it seems that you have a set of codebases and a community to start. However, unless it is willing to be more inclusive of other related projects, I don't think that it should be permitted to refer to itself as the Apac

Re: [VOTE] Incubate Apache Repo

2003-11-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: "Depot" +1 -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || | Magic by Merlin| | Production by Avalon | || |

Re: [VOTE] New Incubator rules and scope definition (long)

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason van Zyl wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:20, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The "Incubator Reorg" threads have brought the Incubator to the definition of a new set of rules, that aim to simplify, streamline and generally make the process of incubation more effective. It's time to wrap it u

Re: Exiting Incubation - Status Check

2003-12-15 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions concerning http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ExitingIncubator Some of them have already been asked (with no reply), some haven't. * No non ASL or ASL compatbile dependencies in the code base In the case of JaxMe, there are sever

Re: Exiting Incubation - Status Check

2003-12-15 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Forgot something: Jochen Wiedmann wrote: * Check of project name for trademark issues How do I do that? In particular, how do I record that I have checked and found no issues? *When* do I check? At the time the project wishes to exit incubation status? Or as soo

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Noel, No - I agree :>. My comments about a mentor is nothing to do with Status files or the like. It's all about having one formal link between the current ASF and the particular project in incubation. In fact that person doing all the status reports etc. I would se

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
+1 on everything below (including the tinker's cuss). Stephen. Berin Lautenbach wrote: Aaron Bannert wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:43:56PM +1100, Berin Lautenbach wrote: I'm confused by what you are saying. Do you believe there should be one person in an authoritative position for each PPM

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: I will absolutely agree that we want to keep [rules] to a minimum. But that minimum must exist for the ASF (as an organisation) to work. Agreed. Some of which I think are for the Incubator PMC to impose on itself as necessary, but don't ef

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: IMHO, as long as a project still requires a "point man" (or as long as the PMC still requires such a person in order to be kept up to date of what is happening in the directory project), the project is not ready for graduation. Absolutely! A good tes

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project to be in incubation anymore. Exactly! S

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project

Re: [VOTE] graduate MerlinDeveloper from incubation

2004-01-15 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: I propose we release MerlinDeveloper from incubation and allow avalon to import the code. Please place your votes: [X] +1 -- yes -- || | Magic by Merlin| | Production by Avalon

Re: [VOTE:RESULT] graduate MerlinDeveloper from incubation

2004-01-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: I proposed we release MerlinDeveloper from incubation and allow avalon to import the code. The Incubator PMC has voted. The results of the vote are as follows: +1 - 13 (of which 3 non-binding) +0 - 0 -1 - 0 there's consensus; the vote passes. This concludes the incubation for

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Geronimo from Incubator and recommend as top-level project

2004-05-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
[X] +1 - The Geronimo project has met the requirements for incubation and will be recommended to the board for TLP status [ ] -1 - The Geronimo project as not met the requirements for incubation -- |---| | Magic by Merlin

deescalation

2004-07-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola - apparently you have the moral high ground on the subject of "deescalation" . care to justify this or shall we let it drop? Stephen. -- |---| | Magic by Merlin | | Production by Avalon | |

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola: If you have a problem with my annoyance at your presumption to preach - then present it here away from any particular project. Stephen. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Brian McCallister wrote: As an innocent bystander of the flamewar that spawned this email: Nicola commented on some technical changes, it started deteriorating into shed painting, Nicola posted an email on de-escalating conflict in technical discussions, then Stephen attacked Nicola directly fo

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I'm quite confident that a good portion of the inhabitants of this list doesn't care much about who is going to "win" this flamefest. +1 There is a sense in which a general discussion on community building techniques and communication skills is worthwhile. I've suggested to

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I've suggested to Nicola Ken that he start work on a web page to cover ideals, techniques and scenarios [related to community building and conversation skills] -1 Sorry but Nicola Ken is not qualified. Your opinion is noted, but that is not your call to make. I asked him i

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Sander Striker wrote: From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:58 PM Noel J. Bergman wrote: I'm quite confident that a good portion of the inhabitants of this list doesn't care much about who is going to "win" this flamefest. +1

Re: [VOTE] Accept MyFaces for Incubation

2004-07-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
[X] Accept MyFaces into the Incubator [ ] Reject MyFaces -- |---| | Magic by Merlin | | Production by Avalon | | | | http://avalon.apache.org | |

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Steven Noels wrote: Please, not here. I'm quite confident that a good portion of the inhabitants of this list doesn't care much about who is going to "win" this flamefest. At least I am not, and I can imagine that neither gen

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: unnecessary and unwarranted disruption of an incubator project Let it go. No one other than you is characterizing it that way. Just let it go. I let it go for three months and now I'm seeing the consequences on not speaking up earlier. If people here think it is appropri

Re: Personal attacks and respect

2004-07-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: unnecessary and unwarranted disruption of an incubator project Let it go. No one other than you is characterizing it that way. Just let it go. I let it go for three months and now I'm seeing the consequences on not speaking up earlier

RE: [OT] How to prevent abusing Apache priviliges

2004-10-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 October 2004 10:43 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] How to prevent abusing Apache priviliges > > On 18 Oct 2004, at 02:19, thorsten wrote: > > > Steven Noels wrote: > >> Nope. What Thorsten describ

RE: [VOTE] Directory exiting Incubator

2005-02-12 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2005 3:55 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Apache Directory Developers List; Directory PPMC > Subject: RE: [VOTE] Directory exiting Incubator > > Alex, > > Continue on your pa

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Release Tapestry to Jakarta

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen McConnell
Sam Ruby wrote: Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Andrew C. Oliver wrote: You can integrate with Gump regardless of Maven. Its just configuring gump is a royal pain in the butt. Pppbbbttt. Apparently creating the following is beyond Andy's abilities: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcv

Re: Incubator DOA (Re: [STATUS] Tapestry [LACK-OF] Progress)

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen McConnell
Roy T. Fielding wrote: 1. The border of incubator reponsibilities are ambigious with regards to the boards Nope. 2. The incubator is not responsive to new requests Yep. Somebody needs to own each request. I would rephrase this as: "someone has to *champion* new requests" Cheers Ste

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Sam Ruby wrote: James is the only project that I recall that did it of their own initiative. Correction - Avalon was of its own iniative. Cheers, Steve. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe,

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Sam Ruby wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: James is the only project that I recall that did it of their own initiative. Correction - Avalon was of its own iniative. Hearing that statement makes me feel VERY good. ;-) Zutt - thinking back to the days of the reorg

ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: ASF Member status continues to maintain a certain club quality within which privaliges ebb-and-flow toi sute the moment). Huh? I want you to think of two societies (a) a small society that establishes a board which creates the notion of membership by invitation which in

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
... and, to whom is the ASF Member accountable? In all contexts, to himself/herself, but if you mean in terms of ASF related behavior, that would be governed by our Bylaws and policies. To imply that ASF Members are not accountable would be a horrid stretch. I am specific asking this in the

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: I am specific asking this in the context of the incubator policies. If I understand correctly, the policies require project sponsorship by a member and from what member only sheparding. While parhaps with best intent - it is excluding

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: What is the Incubator's purpose? What I am told from multiple sources (I have asked about this out of interest), is that the Incubator is to be used whenever a substantial codebase (a sub-project) is brought in from outside the ASF, regardless of whether it is going to be

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: For example, if a Member undertakes such a resonsibility, to whom is the member responsible and what would be the scope of such a responsibility? to the podling and the incubator pmc, to see that everything gets done and done properly. similarly to the found

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, I haven't read through your material, but unless I am wrong about what I wrote last night, an ASF Officer also qualifies. Berin Lautenbach suggested gathering and collating material from this discussion on the Wiki. Some related pages are: http://nagoya.apache.o

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henri Yandell wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Steven Noels wrote: I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by design, it wasn't ver

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Phil: Greg posted a message back on the 18th noting that a PMC vote on the entry of the project to the incubator would be kicked off under the private [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I don't know the specifics of Incubator voting policies but I guessing we will see a vote result early next week. Step

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: If there is interest, I could try and re-word the content I put together on the Sponsor responsibilities such that the role of Sponsor is more oriented towards evangalist/champion, complementing the role of Shepard. Absolutely! The

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ah, at the end, if a committer considers this unfair, maybe he/she should question him/herself before questioning hundreds of his/her peers. Umm, ... and the "standard member line" gets rolled out once again to justify the absence of incubator documentation,

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ah, at the end, if a committer considers this unfair, maybe he/she should question him/herself before questioning hundreds of his/her peers. Umm, ... and the "standard member line&

roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
I have prepared a new page based on the oringal content that Berin prepared. Here is a summary of the things I changed/added: 1. cleanup of the descriptions and terminaolgy (product/project/sub-project) etc. 2. simplification of the description of the pmc (complemented with addition process con

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: i refuse to be sucked any further into one of your confusions. It's good to see we agree! Clearly "confusion" is a central topic that underlines that issues addressed in this thread. Obviously I'm in good company as my confusion pales into insignificance when

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I said nothing about documentation, process, policy or accountability. LOL We certainly agree on this! :-) -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin, http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start The document does state the a candidate *shall

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start The document does state the a candidate *s

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
they retain the responsibilities, otherwise they can move onto other things, having convinced an appropriate body in the ASF to take on the candidate. Peoples - I am very happy to back these changes out, but I wanted to put continue the approach of having something concrete in place to help the

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Phil Steitz wrote: See comments inline Noel J. Bergman wrote: I have no problem with protocol-centric projects, and no problem with language-centric projects, but I do have a problem with protocol-centric projects that assume one implementation language is "best". OK, I've seen enough langu

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
But that isn't the case so I'll try my best to present the issues I see in this email. Zut ... Australia really is at the end of the earth relative to France! (Zut translated into Australian is B* H***). Berin Lautenbach wrote: Steve, From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: Small change in wording. "If Ted stops doing his role as Shepherd, then I would see it as the responsibility of the XML Project PMC Chair" to step in and find someone else." Wooop - a compound correction to an otherwise perfect composition: "If

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC should take the first responsibility to find someone where their representative to stop doing his role. Actually - I disagree. If I say that the Board is responsible. What I am saying is th

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC should take the first responsibility to find someone where their representative to stop doing his role. Actually - I disagree. Actually, you didn't. What you did was engage in a discuss

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, If we ever sit down in some hypothetical cafe, remind me to have a talk with you about how to present an argument for best effect. :-) Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, Han

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Steve, Not actually sure we are disagreeing. Let me just add some thoughts and see where we get to... Zut ... Australia really is at the end of the earth relative to France! (Zut translated into Australian is B* H***). . Tell me about it. The time zones ar

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Think of this entire process as the establishment of a set of imutable procedures that will protect us from the breakdown of their system. Things don't work that way, Stephen. People don't. Especially the kind of people who participate here. This is not a community o

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, Hang on a tick - I have to look this one up! LOL Well, for a start, referring to every decision making body as dysfunctional wasn't the

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I hope that the policies, procedures, responsibilities, and ultimate accountabilities, will have a tangible and net- positive impact on the overall development of the Apache Community. :-) That's it - no umbrella questions? This is so dissapointing! Steve! -- Stephen

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Its looking good. One point concerning the description of the Sponsoring Entity. I currently includes a sub-heading "Responsibilities o

Re: Suggestions for Next Steps

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin: Other commens on the email later - just need to jump in on this one point. Berin Lautenbach wrote: 2. Create a table of contents for the policy reference document. This can be started on Wiki (and I will do a first cut over the next few days), but I think we are getting to a point whe

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin: Total agree with your comments and suggestions you provided in response to Cliff. Berin Lautenbach wrote: Cliff, Firstly - thanks for all the thoughts. Great stuff! Totally !! Feedback is really helpfull. The detail and obviouse attention to content is exactly the sort of thing we

Re: gump for incubating projects?

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
robert burrell donkin wrote: is there anything to prevent gump builds being set up for incubating projects? (other than actually doing the work, of course ;) Only the idea of using of getting JIRA settup here at Apache and using it instead. Stephen. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL

Re: gump for incubating projects?

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: is there anything to prevent gump builds being set up for incubating projects? (other than actually doing the work, of course ;) Only the idea of using of getting JIRA settup here at Apache and using it instead. Retruaction

Re: [STATUS] (incubator) Wed Sep 24 23:46:04 EDT 2003

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2003/09/17 13:22:24 $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://Nagoya.Apache.Org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheIncubatorProjectPages [note: the Web s

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everybody's a comedian, but not everybody is funny. Zut - I thought it was funny! Steve. "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/09/2003 05:48:30 AM: Please ignore this post. I saw that Nicola Ken was starting to pull up against my tail and didn't want

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

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: So what's the final verdict on releases? I'm wondering about this myself. My own theory is that this entire discussion is exceeding the bounds of duristiction of the Incubator PMC. I.e. IMVVHO if the incubated project wants to publish an artifact it needs to do one

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 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 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: Exit Criteria

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: My own theory is that this entire discussion is exceeding the bounds of duristiction of the Incubator PMC. why? The incubator has a scope concerning "incubation". I hope the incubator aims to to provide the role of

Re: [STATUS] (incubator) Wed Sep 24 23:46:04 EDT 2003

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Any reason why the IncubatorMussings document should not be referended from ApacheIncubatorProjectPages ? It is now. Good work Berin! -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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: Exit Criteria

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: The incubator has a scope concerning "incubation". I hope the incubator aims to to provide the role of gatekeeper together with a support infrasture the accelerate the sucessful exit of incubated projects. so f

Re: incubator, exit and publication

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
ormally) established by the Jakarta PMC. From that point you have an idea what it is that you aim to enforce. Stephen. - robert On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Stephen McConnell wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 08:13 AM, Roy T. Fieldi

unicameral solution

2003-09-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Have been thinking along the same lines - although I wasn't able to capture the essence as nicely as Andrew :-). To rephrase Andrew's tricameral process, recasting with veto in mind ... 1. A Sponsoring Entity votes to accept a candidate 2. The Sponsoring Entity votes to exit the candidate. 3. In

Question time !

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Why are we discussing/considering the possibility of anything other than a TLP incubation? If a project is comming in as part of another project than an existing PMC is bringing it it in and doing so in accordance with the policies, procedures and due-diligence that have been granted under the

Re: Question time !

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Why are we discussing/considering the possibility of anything other than a TLP incubation? If a project is comming in as part of another project than an existing PMC is bringing it it in and doing so in accordance with the policies