Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2009-08-04 Thread David Crossley
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > I am very disappointed that no podlings took up your suggestion. > > I was too. It was "answered" by the status scoreboard, but that is not > help to graduate, only a bunch of disassociated data. I don't disapprove > of a status grid,

Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Crossley wrote: > > I am very disappointed that no podlings took up your suggestion. I was too. It was "answered" by the status scoreboard, but that is not help to graduate, only a bunch of disassociated data. I don't disapprove of a status grid, but it doesn't replace active management.

Re: [appeal] Help Us Graduate!

2009-08-04 Thread David Crossley
On Nov 21, 2008 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > I'd like to suggest a thread on general@ for each of those projects > who believe they are close to graduation, but not sure what to do > next. To kick off such a thread, email *me* with a summary (like > you do for status reports) of where your proj

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Yes, And here is another angle; ALL projects will die, it is just a matter of time. Now, knowing that we need to deal with, and can't set out with the notion that if we think it might whither it can't graduate, then I will need to vote against all graduations. So, IMHO, the "might die" criteria i

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code listen to the community? That's certainly good, but IMHO not really the key point as it doesn't address the cas

Making some thrift releases

2009-08-04 Thread Leo Simons
Hey thrift folks, Someone just pointed out http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/download/ I'm afraid that's not exactly what we'd like to see. Can you please spend some time reviewing the pages at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html ? It would be really good if y'al

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Greg Brown
[I presume the three browns above are all one in the same person.) Yes - all me. :-) I believe they reflect my user name on the various SVN repositories in which Pivot has resided (java.net, Google Code, and now ASF). ---

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten > Scherler wrote: > >> How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 >> coding committers but how many other committers? > > 5 committers and PPMC Members in total, not counting 2 mentors. gbrown

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Thorsten Scherler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 18:16 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten >> Scherler wrote: >> >>> How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 >>> coding committers but how many other committers? >> 5 committers and

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Matthieu Riou
I'm +1 as well. I fully respect Jukka's opinion, I'm just placing my own line on the other side of the gray area (if that makes sense). Matthieu On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Gang, > > > > Apache Pivot

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Martijn Dashorst
In most discussions I hear (I think it is Roy's quote): "Not community *over* code, but community *for* code" Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h..

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/8/4 Thorsten Scherler : > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 18:16 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten >> Scherler wrote: >> >> > How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 >> > coding committers but how many other committers? >> >> 5 commit

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:23 +0100, Niall Pemberton wrote: ... > > Bottom line: activity is hardly measurable since you can be active in > > the community or in code or both. Being active on the ml is even more > > important then committing code, or do we not always saying community > > over code? >

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 18:16 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten > Scherler wrote: > > > How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 > > coding committers but how many other committers? > > 5 committers and PPMC Members in total, not

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:48 +0100, ant elder wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ross Gardler > wrote: >> >> > I would suggest that anyone wishing to vote -1 on the graduation of > a >> > podling on grounds of diversity of code comm

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > How many committers are in the project? As understand from the thread 2 > coding committers but how many other committers? 5 committers and PPMC Members in total, not counting 2 mentors. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer htt

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:48 +0100, ant elder wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > > I would suggest that anyone wishing to vote -1 on the graduation of a > > podling on grounds of diversity of code commits needs to back it up > > with documented evidence that either a)

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I would suggest that anyone wishing to vote -1 on the graduation of a > podling on grounds of diversity of code commits needs to back it up > with documented evidence that either a) the committers are not > listening to the community or b) the

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Greg Brown wrote: > It may be worth noting that Pivot is not technically a "VMware project". > Todd and I work on Pivot on our own time. We just happen to work for the > same company.  :-) That certainly helps with the diversity requirement. Even then I think t

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/8/4 Bertrand Delacretaz : > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >> >>> Sling explicitly waited until there were active committers from three >>> independent backgrounds until asking for graduation. >>> >>> At the end of

Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code > listen to the community? That's certainly good, but IMHO not really the key point as it doesn't address the case when those people lose interest. A community that

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Taking Sling as an example again, the commit logs certainly show an > overwhelming number of commits from Day employees, but if you look at > the big picture it's clear that those committers are taking the > community opinions into accou

Re: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot

2009-08-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > >> Sling explicitly waited until there were active committers from three >> independent backgrounds until asking for graduation. >> >> At the end of the day it's the people who write the c