Re: Help reviewing PhotArk podling release

2009-08-21 Thread Luciano Resende
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, sebb wrote: > Sigs and hashes OK; tgz and zip agree with each other. > > However, the source archive does not agree with the SVN tag - the > versions are different in various pom.xml files. Can you give me one example ? The verious pom.xml should have version id as

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Noel J. Bergman > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:50:42 PM > Subject: RE: Making up policy on the fly > > Joe Schaefer wrote: > > ant elder wrote: > > > > - make complying with "best practices" a graduation requirement not a

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Noel J. Bergman > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:50:42 PM > Subject: RE: Making up policy on the fly > > Ted Leung wrote: > > > Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > If we tell you something is best-practice, why do *we* have to > > >

RE: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Joe Schaefer wrote: > ant elder wrote: > > - make complying with "best practices" a graduation requirement not a > > release requirement > This sounds silly as complying with best practices is neither a graduation > requirement nor a release requirement. The pejorative aside, I concur that Ant

Reminder regarding the TONE of communication

2009-08-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Quoting various in a recent thread ... > Whims my ass I'll ask that the rhetoric and tension level be kept low, please. By all parties. > People are free to speak their minds and argue out their points as they > see fit. What actually counts are the votes > Anyone who easily gets frustrated w

RE: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > Joe Schaefer wrote: > > If we tell you something is best-practice, why do *we* have to > > defend ourselves? Who is WE and YOU? WE the ASF? WE the Infra Team? YOU a podling? YOU a fellow ASF Member? > > Shouldn't people *know* what the actual position of the foundation > >

Re: RM procedural docs

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: sebb > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:02:12 AM > > Subject: Re: RM procedural docs > > > > > On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > I wrote some procedural docs for the RM

Re: RM procedural docs

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: sebb > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:02:12 AM > Subject: Re: RM procedural docs > > On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > I wrote some procedural docs for the RM role: > > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releas

Re: RM procedural docs

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > I wrote some procedural docs for the RM role: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#glossary-release-manager > > Comments/criticisms/flames welcome. Generally agree, but not sure what you mean by "the project's release documentatio

RM procedural docs

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
I wrote some procedural docs for the RM role: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#glossary-release-manager Comments/criticisms/flames welcome. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubato

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:05 AM, sebb wrote: > > > > On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > > > > > About that assembly issue, running mvn assembly:assembly on the > > > assembly... I don't really think that makes sense. > > > > > > > > > > The archive is

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: sebb > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:15:44 AM > > Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > > > > > On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > - Original Message >

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:05 AM, sebb wrote: On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: About that assembly issue, running mvn assembly:assembly on the assembly... I don't really think that makes sense. The archive is supposed to contain the *full* source, i.e. whatever was used to create the

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: sebb > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:15:44 AM > Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > > On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > - Original Message > > > > > From: ant elder > > > To: general@incubator.apach

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: ant elder > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:32:39 AM > > Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > > > > Several improvements have been suggested on this thread so far, the >

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: ant elder >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:32:39 AM >> Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > >> Several improvements have been suggested on this thread so far, t

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, sebb wrote: > > On 21/08/2009, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, sebb wrote: > >> > There is only a combined source/binary archive, which is not standard > practise. > >> > All other projec

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: ant elder > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:32:39 AM > Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > Several improvements have been suggested on this thread so far, the > two mains ones are: > > - hold the release votes on the

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, sebb wrote: > On 21/08/2009, Martijn Dashorst wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, sebb wrote: >>  > There is only a combined source/binary archive, which is not standard >> practise. >>  > All other projects release a source archive; almost all also release

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > About that assembly issue, running mvn assembly:assembly on the > assembly... I don't really think that makes sense. > The archive is supposed to contain the *full* source, i.e. whatever was used to create the binary. It must be possible to recreate

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, ant elder wrote: >> Also, if we do the making best practices a graduation requirement >> instead of a release requirement that might alleviate the poor mentor >> issue as its easy enough to check the latest

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, sebb wrote: > On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > > > So sebb, what tool are you using there to come up with all those issues ;-) > > > Scripts to download and unpack the archives. > Scripts to check sigs and hashes. > > WinMerge and > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/p

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Francis De Brabandere
About that assembly issue, running mvn assembly:assembly on the assembly... I don't really think that makes sense. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM, sebb wrote: > On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: >> So sebb, what tool are you using there to come up with all those issues ;-) > > Scripts

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, ant elder wrote: > > Also, if we do the making best practices a graduation requirement > > instead of a release requirement that might alleviate the poor mentor > > issue as its easy enough to check the latest release at

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > So sebb, what tool are you using there to come up with all those issues ;-) Scripts to download and unpack the archives. Scripts to check sigs and hashes. WinMerge and https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/tools/releases/compare_dirs.pl Ey

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, ant elder wrote: > Also, if we do the making best practices a graduation requirement > instead of a release requirement that might alleviate the poor mentor > issue as its easy enough to check the latest release at graduation > time and vote against graduation until

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Wink 0.1 (RC-3)

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Snitkovsky, Martin wrote: > The Wink community voted on and approved the release of Apache Wink 0.1 > > The voting mail thread can be viewed at: http://tiny.cc/es4Zu > > > > We would now like to request the approval of the Incubator PMC for this > release. > > > >

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM, ant elder wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> My concern is more that of 'complacent mentors'... How many people >> vote +1 even if they have not scrutinized the release requirements? >> IMHO, too many... So, would that mean that so

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Francis De Brabandere
So sebb, what tool are you using there to come up with all those issues ;-) On the distribution file(s). Is this standard practice described somewhere. Can you suggest a model project that is using maven? If we have binaries separated should we also provide libraries in that zip? Since we moved t

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, ant elder wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, sebb wrote: > > -1 > > > > AIUI, all proposed releases must be voted on by the IPMC, not just by > > the podlings. > > > > > And they still would be as the only binding votes are from IPMC > members, and thats just the same

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On 21 Aug 2009, at 08:58, ant elder wrote: > >> What do people think about changing the poddling release voting >> process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the >> poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now w

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Rainer Döbele wrote: > > I agree with Martijn's view on the first release of a podling which is much > more critical than subsequent releases. > > But for subsequent releases the voting process should be simplified in one > way or the other. At the moment we have

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, sebb wrote: > -1 > > AIUI, all proposed releases must be voted on by the IPMC, not just by > the podlings. > And they still would be as the only binding votes are from IPMC members, and thats just the same as the situation with the poddling new committer and ppmc

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, sebb wrote: > > There is only a combined source/binary archive, which is not standard > practise. > > All other projects release a source archive; almost all also release a > > separate binary archive. > > > FWIW, Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:40 PM, J Aaron Farr wrote: >> >> On Fri 21 Aug 2009 14:58, ant elder wrote: >> >>> What do people think about changing the poddling release voting >>> process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, sebb wrote: > There is only a combined source/binary archive, which is not standard > practise. > All other projects release a source archive; almost all also release a > separate binary archive. FWIW, Apache Wicket has released combined binary/source archives sin

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > the tag is located here: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/empire-db/tags/empire-db-parent-2.0.5-incubating > > This is because our parent module is called empire-db-parent. Is this a > problem? I don't have a problem with the name. >

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:40 AM, J Aaron Farr wrote: > > On Fri 21 Aug 2009 14:58, ant elder wrote: > >> What do people think about changing the poddling release voting >> process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the >> poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, sebb wrote: > On 21/08/2009, Rainer Döbele wrote: > > > > The Empire-db community has completed working on Release 2.0.5 and is now > looking for approval of the IPMC to publish the release. > > So far the release has been approved by Empire-db committers, but due to > vacat

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Francis De Brabandere
the tag is located here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/empire-db/tags/empire-db-parent-2.0.5-incubating This is because our parent module is called empire-db-parent. Is this a problem? Francis On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM, sebb wrote: > On 21/08/2009, Rainer Döbele wrote: >> >>

Re: [appeal] Help JSPWiki Graduate!

2009-08-21 Thread David Crossley
Janne Jalkanen wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >Janne Jalkanen wrote: > >> > >>Yes, we're keeping our task list in JIRA instead of the web page, > >>simply because it's a lot easier, and encourages participation more > >>than a static HTML file somewhere. > > > >I know. However, that page is what

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On 21 Aug 2009, at 08:58, ant elder wrote: What do people think about changing the poddling release voting process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now with a poddling dev list vote followed by an general@ vote? This

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
On 21/08/2009, Rainer Döbele wrote: > > The Empire-db community has completed working on Release 2.0.5 and is now > looking for approval of the IPMC to publish the release. > So far the release has been approved by Empire-db committers, but due to > vacation time and other circumstances the Me

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread sebb
-1 AIUI, all proposed releases must be voted on by the IPMC, not just by the podlings. You cannot expect all IPMC members and other interested parties to subscribe to all the Incubator mailing lists. It's wrong to hold the votes in "semi-secret" on a different list. On 21/08/2009, Rainer Döbele

re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Döbele
I agree with Martijn's view on the first release of a podling which is much more critical than subsequent releases. But for subsequent releases the voting process should be simplified in one way or the other. At the moment we have to get approval from our Mentors first before we can move to th

[VOTE] Release Empire-db 2.0.5

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Döbele
The Empire-db community has completed working on Release 2.0.5 and is now looking for approval of the IPMC to publish the release. So far the release has been approved by Empire-db committers, but due to vacation time and other circumstances the Mentors are unable to review the release. Hence i

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Martijn Dashorst
-1 I try to check my podlings' releases personally, but I usually fail where Sebb shines :). It is much easier to guide the addition of new committers/ppmc members than it is to properly vet a *first* release. The first release of any podling is an exercise of patience and frustration, but it doe

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:40 PM, J Aaron Farr wrote: > > On Fri 21 Aug 2009 14:58, ant elder wrote: > >> What do people think about changing the poddling release voting >> process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the >> poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Thilo Goetz
J Aaron Farr wrote: > On Fri 21 Aug 2009 14:58, ant elder wrote: > >> What do people think about changing the poddling release voting >> process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the >> poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now with a >> poddling dev list vote f

Re: Making up policy on the fly

2009-08-21 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:32 PM, ant elder wrote: > - hold the release votes on the poddling mailing lists not general@ > - make complying with "best practices" a graduation requirement not a > release requirement +1, with a big IF; there are no legal requirements (which needs to be well defined)

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Fri 21 Aug 2009 14:58, ant elder wrote: > What do people think about changing the poddling release voting > process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the > poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now with a > poddling dev list vote followed by an general@ vote

Re: [DISCUSS] Changing poddling release voting process

2009-08-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM, ant elder wrote: > What do people think about changing the poddling release voting > process so that there is just a single vote which is held on the > poddlings dev list instead of the dual voting we have now with a > poddling dev list vote followed by an gene