[STATUS] (incubator) Wed Dec 28 23:55:48 2005

2005-12-28 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2005-11-24 00:30:24 -0500 (Thu, 24 Nov 2005) $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ [note: the Web site is the 'official' documentation; the wiki

Re: The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Martin Cooper
On 12/28/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, > > > Is there a well-defined line between these two mechanisms for bringing > new > > code to the ASF? > > No, not a well-defined one. The IP Clearance is primarily intended for > use > with a relatively simple Software Grant sit

Re: The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Noel, I agree, as we need a better polic/process for IP Clearance, it can't be left to one person. I already insisted on full incubation for the specific issue. Though mind you, i'd love to have some guidelines i can check off of to back up why i think a full incubation is prudent. In this specifi

RE: The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin, > Is there a well-defined line between these two mechanisms for bringing new > code to the ASF? No, not a well-defined one. The IP Clearance is primarily intended for use with a relatively simple Software Grant situation into an existing project, such as libtool, which we can contrast wi

RE: The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dims, > it's been a line in the sand AFAIK, i guess it's Noel's call. -1 Although that might be technically true, we do things collectively in the ASF. Mind you, we've not had a process for voting on IP Clearance type submissions, so that's been a potential loophole. > I think we should insist

IP Clearance vs Full incubation

2005-12-28 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Folks, I was browsing the ip-clearance documents (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/). IMNSHO, I don't like what's happening. It *SHOULD* be incubator PMC's call whether an incoming donation can take "IP Clearance" route or whether it needs undergo ful

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:53:31PM -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > +1 to 3 ASF Members/Officers as mentors > +1 to require Incubator PMC vote for *ALL* incoming projects > +1 to require Incubator PMC vote even on simpler IP imports > yeah, sounds good to me. More mentors / oversight is likely to

Re: The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Martin, it's been a line in the sand AFAIK, i guess it's Noel's call. I don't remember voting on some of the things on the site (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/) I think we should insist on a full incubation for Cherokee/Tomahawk/ADF (whatever it's

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 to 3 ASF Members/Officers as mentors +1 to require Incubator PMC vote for *ALL* incoming projects +1 to require Incubator PMC vote even on simpler IP imports thanks, dims On 12/28/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Noels wrote: > > > The Incubator PMC only needs to care ab

The line between full incubation and IP clearance

2005-12-28 Thread Martin Cooper
Is there a well-defined line between these two mechanisms for bringing new code to the ASF? Not having seen the code yet, I can't say for sure, but I would expect the Oracle ADF Faces donation to be substantial, and include a framework that ties everything together. I would have thought that wou

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steven Noels wrote: > The Incubator PMC only needs to care about IP and legal blahblah, > thus the receiving PMCs are tasked with community and brand abuse > stuff. Not true. If there is community development, the Incubator PMC had better be involved. We're going to have to adjust things, such

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Erik Abele wrote: > Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>> What you do have is the right to vote against their graduation if >>> you so desire. > The second sentence does exactly what the first sentence forbids, no? > It tells people what they cannot do at the ASF. It is established that the Incubator is t

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > If any ASF PMC believes it is in the best interest of the Foundation to > accept a podling and they are willing to dedicate resources ("people") - > then anyone on the Incubator PMC has no standing to challenge that > decision. When a PMC approves a podling, the only th

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: > I have never envisioned a case where the Incubator would > be at odds with the desires of the PMCs and the members. As Geir noted, I can see the potential for the former, but of the latter, I would hope not. The Members are the Incubator in many real ways, and the Incuba

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I'm all in favor of enforcing a strict embargo until the Incubator PMC ? approves a proposal, an initial code drop lands, and the mailing lists are > created. Until those happen, any active publicity claiming it to be a part > of the ASF is a flat-out lie. (In the futu

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
[Sorry for the delayed response ... spent a few days rebuilding my laptop.] David tried to get people interested in the issue, constructively, back in November. ref: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200511.mbox/%3c20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please review David's post from al

Re: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-28 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 12/27/2005 7:12 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: On 12/27/05, Alan D. Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems like an oxymoron, community should be active, but the code may not, no? How can this be? Two ways: 1) The conversation that Brett mentions. General pan-apache Java things. I'm a

Re: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-28 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 12/27/2005 4:25 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Discussion of upcoming specs, discussion of usage of the specs, a users list that helps people use the specs (this is necessary, but worries me about getting "how do I do servlets" type questions). I guess there is also scope to innovate in addition to

Re: [doc] [draft #2] "How to graduate from the incubator" topic

2005-12-28 Thread Ted Husted
On 12/23/05, Martin Sebor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spotted the same "discrepancy" myself a while back (I only found > one podling with a STATUS file -- Beehive). Eventually it turned out > that what was meant by the STATUS file was the podling's status Web > page. > > > > I think that was jus

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: If people have issues with Forrest, then please take them to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is totally unfair to a new project to just criticise it from afar. We get very few emails to the user mailing list about any issues with Forrest. This seems to be especially t

[OT] Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:03:34 +1100, "David Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > > Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it > > took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure > > out that geronimo.html was not being