Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > I've participated in both styles of development. RTC is *stifling*. I > would never want to see that in any Apache community for its routine > development (branch releases are another matter). > > My opinion is that it is very unfortunate that C

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread ant elder
I agree with that. And before graduation I think it might be worth trying to get CTR used more, they do seem open this - http://markmail.org/message/i255ekzxpuesow44 ...ant On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > Not a "strong opinion", but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Daniel Kulp wrote: > > As Martijn alluded to, I think we'd need some more context as to why and how > they use RTC. > This appears to be where it came from: http://markmail.org/message/d45dmasuwnda25wd so about 6 months ago to try to help with problems they wer

Re: Serf vs Neon (was Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-11 Thread Ralph Goers
On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 20:48, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >> Is this topic really appropriate for incubator general? I'm having trouble >> following along with all the noise. > > At the root, it is a discussion about LGPL dependencies in an incoming

Re: Serf vs Neon (was Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 20:48, Ralph Goers wrote: > > Is this topic really appropriate for incubator general? I'm having trouble > following along with all the noise. At the root, it is a discussion about LGPL dependencies in an incoming podling. Neon is LGPL. Serf is ALv2. Both are optional, t

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Greg Stein
Not a "strong opinion", but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change and discussing it. But you get *forward progress*. I also feel that RTC

Serf vs Neon (was Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-11 Thread Ralph Goers
Is this topic really appropriate for incubator general? I'm having trouble following along with all the noise. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incub

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Snyder
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: > Matthieu Riou wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> What's the take of other mentors and the IPMC on podlings practicing RTC? >> I'm asking because some seem to see it as a blocker for graduation whereas >> I >> see it much more as a development me

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Leo Simons wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Matthieu Riou > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote: > >> > >> As Martijn alluded to, I think we'd need some more context as to why and > >> how they use RTC. > >> > > Yes, sorry for

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: > > * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org > * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather than /incubator/subversion/ > > We are hoping to minimize over

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Matthieu Riou wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote: >> >> As Martijn alluded to, I think we'd need some more context as to why and >> how they use RTC. >> > Yes, sorry for the lack of details. The context is Cassandra and they're > doing RTC

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Thanks Brian! On 11/11/2009 06:22 PM, Brian Fox wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: I think this is a pretty important issue worth "spamming" but whatever I think it's worth noting, I've had several projects asking for it to be available so they can use it and di

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Fox
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > I think this is a pretty important issue worth "spamming" but whatever > I think it's worth noting, I've had several projects asking for it to be available so they can use it and ditch their homebrew solutions. When it's promoted to the r

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Davanum Srinivas
I think this is a pretty important issue worth "spamming" but whatever -- dims On 11/11/2009 05:43 PM, Daniel Kulp wrote: Actually, the vote was kind of withdrawn to update it to new descriptors. Thus, its not available yet. In anycase, no need to spam all the PMCs, especially those not usin

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Kulp
Actually, the vote was kind of withdrawn to update it to new descriptors. Thus, its not available yet. In anycase, no need to spam all the PMCs, especially those not using Maven. Just keep an eye on the annou...@maven list. When available, it will be announced there. Dan On Wed Nove

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Dan, "It's up to each project to get their releases correct" - Yes. But not everyone hangs out on the d...@maven or gene...@incubator. Hence the request to broadcast. I really don't understand the "why?" - No one is trying to mandate using a specific pom across all PMC(s). Just the fact that

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Wed November 11 2009 4:52:23 pm Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Brian, > > Do you mind sending an email to pmcs AT apache.org to inform them that they > should be using this new version of Apache pom? And any other additional > instructions needed to enable this "feature" to work. Why? It's up t

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Joe Schaefer
Easy: no, unless you have the same open source track record and constitution of apache folks as subversion does. - Original Message > From: Gilles Scokart > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 12:11:10 PM > Subject: Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subver

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Brian, Do you mind sending an email to pmcs AT apache.org to inform them that they should be using this new version of Apache pom? And any other additional instructions needed to enable this "feature" to work. thanks, dims On 11/11/2009 03:51 PM, Brian Fox wrote: What is happening in some Ja

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Fox
> What is happening in some Java projects, via Maven's release plugin, > is disturbing since the "source release" only exist in the subversion > repository This problem has been solved and is no longer valid. Any repetition of the old news is total fud. We have for many months now been providing p

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Gilles Scokart
What will you say to the next incubating project asking the same thing? Gilles Scokart 2009/11/10 Greg Stein > There are two other issues to discuss for the Subversion podling: > > * moving the mailing lists directly to @subversion.apache.org > * placing the source code at /subversion/ rather

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote: > > As Martijn alluded to, I think we'd need some more context as to why and > how > they use RTC. > > Yes, sorry for the lack of details. The context is Cassandra and they're doing RTC by community choice. They all seem to agree that RTC is the

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Kulp
As Martijn alluded to, I think we'd need some more context as to why and how they use RTC. If all the reviews are done by a single person because that is what they want, THAT would be a problem. If the reviews are a community driven thing and the community thinks that's the best way for

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:06, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >... >> It already has the Apache License (v2), and it uses a NOTICE file (per >> the license), and our packaging is tighter/stronger than typical >> Apache releases (per Justin's note). Are

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
Matthieu Riou wrote: Hi guys, What's the take of other mentors and the IPMC on podlings practicing RTC? I'm asking because some seem to see it as a blocker for graduation whereas I see it much more as a development methodology with little community impact and therefore no real influence on gradu

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
As long as the community is not divided on the issue whether to practice RTC vs CTR, I see no blocker for graduation. That is: as long as RTC was not installed to mitigate problems inside the community. If that is the case, the community may still be broken, with the underlying issue mopped under

Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-11 Thread Matthieu Riou
Hi guys, What's the take of other mentors and the IPMC on podlings practicing RTC? I'm asking because some seem to see it as a blocker for graduation whereas I see it much more as a development methodology with little community impact and therefore no real influence on graduation. Strong opinions

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-11 Thread Nicholas L Gallardo
Hi Niclas, I promoted the release in Nexus so it is no long available in the staging repository, but now available here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/wink/apache-wink/1.0-incubating/ I haven't been able to update the links on the download page as I'm w

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread C. Michael Pilato
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Igor Burilo > wrote: >> isn’t guaranteed (you and Michael Pilato are sceptic regarding Serf). Nobody > > Hang on - let's be clear here: ra_serf passes *all* of the Subversion > regression tests just fine and has done so for several yea

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Mark Phippard
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Igor Burilo wrote: > Mark Phippard-3 wrote: >> >>>I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could >>>provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL >>>compatible code.  Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB >

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-11 Thread Greg Stein
Plan: raise an issue, and we fix it. Not sure what else you're looking for. We have a lot of active developers. Lots of hands to be responsive. Cheers, -g On Nov 11, 2009 1:48 AM, "Jukka Zitting" wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Jukka, > Not so sur... Pe

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Igor Burilo wrote: > isn’t guaranteed (you and Michael Pilato are sceptic regarding Serf). Nobody Hang on - let's be clear here: ra_serf passes *all* of the Subversion regression tests just fine and has done so for several years now. (An ra_serf slave is part of

[Reminder] Clutch assists the incubation process

2009-11-11 Thread David Crossley
Especially to the new projects, a reminder that Clutch is a tool to assist us all with the incubation process. Please interpret this table from the point-of-view of encouragement and nurture. http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html It gathers details and hints from three main resources: A) the R

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 14:21, Craig L Russell wrote: >> >> On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >>> But with all that said, how about we do this: we'll do a 1.6.7 release >>> from the 1.6.x branch after we do the code import. That r

OT: Subverting Eclipse (subject line changed to protect the guilty)

2009-11-11 Thread Branko Čibej
Igor Burilo wrote: > Mark Phippard-3 wrote: > >>> I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could >>> provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL >>> compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB >>> and libintl support. Of th

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-11 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jukka, Agreed. thanks, dims On 11/11/2009 01:47 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Jukka, Not so sure... because that dist may contain code that we may not allow. Personally I'd be happy with a plan from the Subversion team that shows ho

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Igor Burilo
Mark Phippard-3 wrote: > >>I gave counsel to the Eclipse Foundation and explained that they could >>provide a fully functioning JavaHL library to users with only EPL >>compatible code. Basically, you just need to build without Neon, BDB >>and libintl support. Of the three, the only thing an Ec

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings > how to work here at Apache. > > It is not about making podlings thoughtlessly follow checklists. > > It is about TEACHING them what are the important aspects of > developmen

Correct mail subjects (Was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-11 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Please update the message subject if you're no longer discussing the original topic of the thread. I have no idea what Maven release practices have to do with the Subversion acceptance vote. BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscr

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Michael Elman wrote: > It seems that Nick has some problems copying the  distribution on > people.apache.org (see http://tinyurl.com/yhpfp2v) > I've already made changes to the site, but I don't want to upload it > unless all the links work. Ok... I wait until nex

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann > wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato >> wrote: >> >>> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The >>> Subversion community has never re

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Branko Čibej
Martijn Dashorst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> LOL >> >> Well... the problem is that an "svn mv" from /incubator/subversion/ to >> /subversion/ introduces an artificial breakage in the history. It is >> actually quite disruptive for tracking history (which is

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > LOL > > Well... the problem is that an "svn mv" from /incubator/subversion/ to > /subversion/ introduces an artificial breakage in the history. It is > actually quite disruptive for tracking history (which is very > important to us). Sounds lik

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
I like the proposal of 3 steps prior to releasing... In Greg's words: it teaches instead of hinders. It divides the arduous process of cutting a release in more manageable steps and would make passing the actual release easier/faster. Martijn On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Elman
It seems that Nick has some problems copying the  distribution on people.apache.org (see http://tinyurl.com/yhpfp2v) I've already made changes to the site, but I don't want to upload it unless all the links work. 2009/11/11 Niclas Hedhman > > What happen to this release? > > The links in this pos