[STATUS] (incubator) Wed Feb 8 23:56:11 2006

2006-02-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2006-02-05 04:40:19 -0500 (Sun, 05 Feb 2006) $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ [note: the Web site is the 'official' documentation; the wiki

[ANNOUNCE] Policy Regarding ASF Members and the Incubator PMC

2006-02-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
The Incubator PMC has discussed and voted to adopt the following: Any ASF Member may ask to participate on the Incubator PMC. The Incubator PMC Chair shall submit the request to the Board (cc to the PMC) to be acknowledged. At any time between the Member's request and prior to the expiration of

[doc] podling software releases

2006-02-08 Thread Jean T. Anderson
This is a follow up on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-14, which I opened to track this doc topic. I'd like to clarify the "Releases" section in http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html (I'll also add a table of contents to the top of that page to make it

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
same thing in Harmony. And I'm betting J2SE is bigger than CORBA :) geir Davanum Srinivas wrote: Ken, FYI, some of us are handling (definitely in synapse!) this is by having the existing Apache folks to pick up the heavy load at the beginning and new people submit patches. As and when the r

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
ALL incubator requests for infrastructure MUST be reflected in an appropriate status file under http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html before they are requested. There are no exceptions. Roy - To unsubscribe,

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Ken, I reviewed the proposal and yeah, it looks good to me. (non-binding) CORBA is a huge piece of work and I'm not surprised that it takes 22. I'd be surprised if the number of initial committers were less than 13. (random number generator 6..18) Craig On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Rode

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Ken, FYI, some of us are handling (definitely in synapse!) this is by having the existing Apache folks to pick up the heavy load at the beginning and new people submit patches. As and when the rate picks up and becomes difficult (read earn Karma) then we vote and add them in, otherwise we just pi

RE: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ken wrote: > Before we start setting things up, I'd really like to > call for some opinions about the proposal from *outside* > the sponsoring TLP. Please see the threads around "Changes to Incubator Process(es)" from January. There has been some call for the Incubator PMC to have more control o

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 2/8/2006 5:41 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I think I need: * SVN o http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/yoko * Jira * Mailing lists o [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [VOTE-RESULT] Yoko - A CORBA Server Sub-Project Proposal - PASSED

2006-02-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 2/8/2006 5:50 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Alan, Please note that this is not a Geronimo sub-project. Incubator projects are just that: Incubator projects whose final destination will be determined at graduation. Amongst other issues, we want to be inviting and inclusive of whomever wants

Re: [VOTE-RESULT] Yoko - A CORBA Server Sub-Project Proposal - PASSED

2006-02-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 2/8/2006 5:16 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: The only person who's stepped up and volunteered is Geir. Is there anyone else? Are two mentors enough? I'm there also. Yep. Thanks Ken! Regards, Alan

RE: [VOTE-RESULT] Yoko - A CORBA Server Sub-Project Proposal - PASSED

2006-02-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan, Please note that this is not a Geronimo sub-project. Incubator projects are just that: Incubator projects whose final destination will be determined at graduation. Amongst other issues, we want to be inviting and inclusive of whomever wants to participate, including other ASF projects.

Re: CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > I think I need: > > * SVN > o http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/yoko > * Jira > * Mailing lists > o [EMAIL PROTECTED] > o [EMAIL PROTECTED] > o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Han

Re: [VOTE-RESULT] Yoko - A CORBA Server Sub-Project Proposal - PASSED

2006-02-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > The only person who's stepped up and volunteered is Geir. Is there > anyone else? Are two mentors enough? I'm there also. - -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opin

CORBA Incubation setup procedures

2006-02-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
I think I need: * SVN o http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/yoko * Jira * Mailing lists o [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Alan

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks to everyone helping clear up things. What Roy says here would indicate that we wouldn't strictly need the grant for out FOP contribution because the code is already published under the ALv2 and all three people involved have ICLAs on file with the ASF. :-) But I'm sure we can get them to do

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread David E. Jones
On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Actually, it is only needed from everyone who might own copyright to some part of the work. So, it is those people who have contributed functionality greater than a simple bug fix. OTOH, the mentors should be aware that, because this work is

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: The reason is that the Software Grant is a legal vehicles that says "I/We own this software and we are granting it to the ASF". So unless there is a legal entity that owns the code, they cannot grant it to the ASF to allow us to relicense it. y

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread David E. Jones
Okay, I think this thread is clearing up the issues pretty well. The iCLA is the most important part in this case, and will be much easier to get through with everyone than a license grant. Technically "The Open For Business Project" is a legal entity, but it doesn't really own any of the

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Feb 8, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 08.02.2006 09:48:39 Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 2/7/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any guidelines about the size of a code contribution that would necessitate a license grant document? You would just need a CLA

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 2/8/06, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That seems contradictory to what the IP clearance page says. Now I'm > totally confused because that would mean we don't need that complex > process of getting the software grant together for that contribution > we're planning to integrate in

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 2/8/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Under the MIT license we have been using there is no assignment or > granting of copyright. All of the code is licensed under the MIT > license, and the copyright everywhere is listed under "The Open For > Business Project". I don't know if th

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Hi all, do we really need to create an ip-clearance page for the OFBiz project? After reading the informations here http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html I think that we don't need such a page for OFBiz since it is a new project. Am I wrong? Jacopo Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 2/5/2006 2:32 PM, David N. Welton wrote: Leo Simons wrote: *) IP clearance checklist - I need to make a copy of that in SVN here, /incubator/site-author/ip-clearance. I'll try and get that done over the weekend. Ok, I added /incubator/site-author/ip-clearance/ofbiz.xml - althou

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 08.02.2006 09:48:39 Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 2/7/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any guidelines about the size of a code contribution that > > would necessitate a license grant document? > > You would just need a CLA not a software grant form for each contribut

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 2/7/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any guidelines about the size of a code contribution that > would necessitate a license grant document? You would just need a CLA not a software grant form for each contributor. SpamAssassin required every person who ever submitted