Re: ALC, and who can speak on behalf of Apache

2019-12-12 Thread Alex Harui
that might cause other volunteers to shy away or find a path of less overhead by skipping the ALC title and buying a case of beer instead. My 2 cents, -Alex On 12/12/19, 2:10 PM, "Craig Russell" wrote: Hi Swapnil, I realize I'm coming late to this discussion but woul

Re: ALC, and who can speak on behalf of Apache

2019-12-06 Thread Alex Harui
ging from each ALC, to lower risk. Add a disclaimer to disengage responsibility for errors. Execute error recovery when needed. My 2 cents, -Alex On 12/6/19, 9:19 AM, "Austin Bennett" wrote: The bits on mentorship make some sense, although I am confused. If about who is

Re: ALC, and who can speak on behalf of Apache

2019-12-05 Thread Alex Harui
get good at fixing common misunderstandings and create a FAQ of common misunderstandings to guide future presentations. "Oh, well that person is relatively new to the ASF and didn't quite grok that yet. The real story is" IMO, better to plan for error recovery than to attempt pe

Re: Introducing lists based on the overall project categories?

2019-06-07 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Bertrand, Your link took me to a post about splitting lists because some list is busy, but AIUI, this proposal for iot@ is to communicate between related projects. Does the ASF have an example of a cross-project list that failed? Thanks, -Alex On 6/7/19, 4:34 AM, "Bertrand Delac

Re: [Discuss] Attributing contributions to commercial vendors investing in projects

2019-04-19 Thread Alex Harui
code are already in NOTICE files. Please educate me. Thanks, -Alex On 4/19/19, 6:15 AM, "Sam Ruby" wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 8:03 AM Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > On Apr 19, 2019, at 1:06 AM, Alex Harui mailto:aha...@adobe.com.INVALID>> wrote: &

Re: [Discuss] Attributing contributions to commercial vendors investing in projects

2019-04-18 Thread Alex Harui
e project owner. Why not let other companies add their logo to NOTICE if it is important to them? Maybe allow these two things and see if that makes the corporations happy. Thanks, -Alex On 4/18/19, 4:06 PM, "Mark Thomas" wrote: This is a tricky one. If everythin

Re: on "meritocracy"

2019-03-22 Thread Alex Harui
used this word before to describe the ASF. Seems to have definitions in the Urban Dictionary. Action-ocracy - This might be a new word and thus we can define it to be what we want it to be. HTH, -Alex

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-10-24 Thread Alex Harui
ing to express the notion that groups, especially groups defined by having a common employer, don't do too much collaboration off-list before inviting others into the conversation. My 2 cents, -Alex On 10/24/18, 7:17 AM, "Myrle Krantz" wrote: Hey all, I'd l

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-10-19 Thread Alex Harui
IMO, the issue isn't about large code drops. Some will be ok. The issue is about significant collaboration off-list about anything, not just code. My 2 cents, -Alex On 10/19/18, 1:32 PM, "James Dailey" wrote: +1 on this civil discourse. I would like to offer

reporter.a.o Board Report Due Dates

2018-06-15 Thread Alex Harui
Hi ComDev, Our new PMC chair was confused by reporter.a.o saying that our board report is due on 6/20.  I suppose technically it is, but maybe some language should be added to say that reports should/must be filed a week earlier? Thoughts? -Alex

Re: The Apache Software Foundation Community Sponsorship Trade with DeveloperWeek

2017-11-30 Thread Alex Harui
e might require approval of the content to make sure it doesn't somehow enable tracking/data-mining, and require an ASF sessions(s) and speaker(s) so we can market the ASF at their event. My 2 cents, -Alex On 11/30/17, 4:40 AM, "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: >On 11/30/2017 7:38 AM, Ber

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-20 Thread Alex Harui
ho are sponsoring. Hi William, What question would a company want to answer that knowing "who committed what" would matter? You might be able to mine that information from the logs anyway. -Alex

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2016-12-21 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/21/16, 12:10 PM, "William A Rowe Jr" wrote: >On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> >> On 12/21/16, 11:05 AM, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >> >> >To much work? For whom? In what period? >> >Does is require a combin

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2016-12-21 Thread Alex Harui
sionally drop by their dev@. They should just so folks can know what is going on only by following dev@. Just my 2 cents though. I won't be doing the work or stopping anyone from trying. -Alex > >Best regards, > >Pierre Smits > >ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2016-12-21 Thread Alex Harui
t;communities have active contributors who spend their time answering >questions on IRC, G+, Facebook, StackOverflow, etc. That's starting to sound like too much work. Would be nice to get though, but a first approximation of mlist + commit should give us a rough idea for how far off the original 13% response rate number might be. My 2 cents, -Alex

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2016-12-20 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/20/16, 6:47 PM, "Matthew Sacks" wrote: >Alex, what does this have anything to do with diversity? I (and maybe others) want to eliminate the argument that the response rate was too low to be used to draw conclusions. See [1]. Thinking about this more, we might also want

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2016-12-20 Thread Alex Harui
vey we have been in the past, 13% >actually sounds like a pretty good response rate to me. How hard would it be to generate the count of all apache ids that committed to any ASF repo in the last N months? -Alex

Re: What's the plan? What are we here for?

2016-12-06 Thread Alex Harui
group with a few folks who network between all of the other volunteers and volunteer organizations in this community to try to coordinate efforts and deal with conflict. ComDev only has to be that one group. My 2 cents, -Alex

Re: Does GSoC help develop communities?

2016-12-05 Thread Alex Harui
ful in the past for the vast majority of ASF projects, if it benefits some other minority of projects, the important takeaway is that it can work for certain reasons, not that it isn't a good idea for your project because it didn't work for most other projects. Each project is different. M

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-15 Thread Alex Harui
endly. I wish I didn't feel that way. I don't understand why it has to be this way. -Alex

Re: Distributing ASF Material

2016-08-17 Thread Alex Harui
nity to continue to educate them on proper positioning of the ASF/HW relationship. I'd rather have folks make mistakes trying to help and attempt to educate them (before and after) than for us to miss opportunities to get the word out, unless the people involved are people we shouldn't be involved with at all. My 2 cents, -Alex

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 5/23/16, 12:18 PM, "tamaonakah...@gmail.com" wrote: Snip... > Members who receive a great deal of generosity during their growth are >likely to pay it forward. I found your entire email (most of which I snipped) to be very informative. Thank you for taking the time to write. -Alex

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
Also, not specific to software: http://leanin.org HTH, -Alex On 5/23/16, 6:36 AM, "Patricia Shanahan" wrote: >Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ > >More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", >https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: Base for presentation

2016-05-21 Thread Alex Harui
mproper behavior toward someone based on some demographic attribute. -Alex

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-20 Thread Alex Harui
cruit two of the young ladies who happened to use the same public transportation I do, but was unsuccessful. Maybe a better organized promotion from some female volunteers at Apache could have better results. Thanks, -Alex

Re: ApacheCon CFP review committee

2016-02-17 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Rich, I'm on the road with limited internet so I haven't looked, but when are reviews due? Thanks, -Alex On 2/17/16, 1:51 PM, "Rich Bowen" wrote: >By now, you should have received email from the ApacheCon CFP system >with your system credentials. Note that the em

Re: ApacheCon CFP, review committee needed

2016-02-13 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Rich, Are there going to be tracks and track chairs? I'm interested in seeing a track on Client-side topics and am willing to help review talks relating to that. If the reviewers need to be Apache-wide, I am probably not be best person for that. Thanks, -Alex On 2/13/16, 3:57 AM,

[ApacheCon NA] Client Track

2016-02-05 Thread Alex Harui
track for client-oriented talks. Are other projects interested? If so, please propose a talk for the client track and let us know to look for it. Thanks, -Alex Apache Flex

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Harui
; >On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Roman Shaposhnik >wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Alex Harui wrote: >>> >>> My initial instinct is that per-language mailing lists aren't a good >>>idea. >>> But I would not require that folks post in

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Harui
themselves in their native language right in front of me, then one of them takes the time to explain it to me in English. The Flex mailing lists recently had a discussion in German because it just happened that the two main people involved happened to both be fluent in German. -Alex

Re: Passion and vigilance in open source

2015-09-23 Thread Alex Harui
refines their product at a flea market and starts a million dollar company and leaves the flea market to try to attract corporate customers. What can the ASF do to make that vendor want to come to the ASF at that point? What are the barriers? -Alex On 9/23/15, 8:12 AM, "Alexei Fedotov&qu

Mailing List Subscriber Count (was Re: Apache Reporter Service)

2015-09-15 Thread Alex Harui
On 7/16/15, 7:24 AM, "Alex Harui" wrote: >OK. Thanks for the info. > >I might try subsetting the information to not grab the release info and >run a job once a day to cache the latest for my project on some other >server. I’ll reply back on this thread if I ever get it

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Alex Harui
ometimes make mistakes. IIRC, Justin recently caught a mistake where some files accidentally got their non-AL headers replaced with AL headers. Large codebase contributions, especially initial podling code grants might be messy as well until scrubbed and approved for an official ASF release. I know from experience. -Alex

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Alex Harui
ers are a convenient signpost, but are not required to connect licensing and copyright to lines of code. -Alex

Re: Apache Reporter Service

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Harui
OK. Thanks for the info. I might try subsetting the information to not grab the release info and run a job once a day to cache the latest for my project on some other server. I’ll reply back on this thread if I ever get it working. -Alex On 7/16/15, 6:29 AM, "Rich Bowen" wrote:

Re: Can't reporter.a.o automatically detect version number and release date?

2015-06-25 Thread Alex Harui
links to their downloads with “friendly” names for the releases. Then reporter.a.o could grab from that. -Alex > >On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Daniel Gruno >wrote: > >> It has been tried, and it did not work. >> People are too inconsistent across projects in how t

Re: Apache Reporter Service

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Harui
This is a really cool service. I noticed it wants login creds. What data would have to be stripped in order to allow general public access? What would it take to get the JSON for the public info? I’ll write the client side in Apache Flex. Thanks, -Alex On 3/5/15, 1:39 AM, "Daniel

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-23 Thread Alex Harui
t at least one other project some serious time. -Alex

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
majority approval to let person B in. How will you know? Make sure you and the other voters have thought it through. -Alex On 3/21/15, 11:59 AM, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >It is sometimes the case that the individual, with power in the community, >can't work with another &

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
“forever” so selecting the wrong person, or ignoring the wishes of too many people may end up causing more problems in the end. There is no one right answer, but there is probably a “best" answer for your project and it may not be what other projects do. -Alex On 3/21/15, 4:00 AM, "Pi

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-20 Thread Alex Harui
listening to that one person. -Alex On 3/20/15, 6:04 PM, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >Hi all, > >If I understand the various documents/pages available regarding voting >correctly, voting a new member in can't be vetoed. Likewise is it with >respect to voting for board me

Re: GSoC 2015 - very little interest so far

2015-02-11 Thread Alex B.
year (like Zeppelin http://markmail.org/message/kcidofpyr36eb5br) Might it be worth\appropriate posting a short notice on Incubator list too? -- Kind regards, Alex On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > Don't know whether your call for action was also se

Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-01-16 Thread Alex Harui
d the things that make Apache different from your day job and other open source groups. Hope you like it. -Alex The Committer Oath I, _, promise to properly record the licensing and copyright of any code I commit, treat all committers equally, use the mailing list for communicating with o

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Harui
biased by whether that person is incentivized to learn or not. -Alex

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Harui
e folks should ask for support like any other customer on that project’s list, and if they don’t get timely and helpful support, reject the product just like any other customer would. In summary, the ASF should be a slightly more willing customer for any of its projects. Azure VM’s seem to provide a way to do that without adding more load to Infra. -Alex

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Harui
doesn’t get adopted. -Alex On 1/14/15, 2:09 PM, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >Like some have expressed in earlier messages in this thread this endeavour >could take up some time. Especially when requirements are not clear. > >And let's not forget, the OFBiz community volunteers

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Harui
I’m way outside my area of knowledge, but is there anything stopping the OFBiz community from getting an ASF Azure box and trying to prototype something? -Alex On 1/14/15, 10:46 AM, "Pierre Smits" wrote: >You are correct. And I am aware that budgets are limitied. But I don't

[Legal PMC] Question with Creative Commons License

2014-04-08 Thread Alex
://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en ) can be included in a project licensed under the Apache version 2.0 ? Thank in advance ! Regards, Alex Johnson

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-14 Thread Alex Harui
extra coat of paint, or do additional safety checks, or cater to the community members who can't be as active because their working on the project isn't their main job. Thanks for reading, -Alex From: Brian LeRoux mailto:b...@brian.io>> Reply-To: "bo...@apache.org<mailto:b

Re: How can we support a faster release cadence?

2014-02-07 Thread Alex Harui
If you've ever just missed a bus or train, knowing another one is coming soon isn't very satisfying if you're in a hurry. If the driver sees you running but looks at his watch and drives away, how does that make you feel about that person and the company he works for? Thanks, -A

Re: Feedback on Flex board report

2013-04-26 Thread Alex Harui
ity about git every day in the Flex community. I doubt we will go back to SVN. I'm not sure it is worth blogging it. The draft of the report is captured on the dev@flex.a.o archives so it is public and searchable. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui