Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 22:35, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. > wrote: > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:nic...@hedhman.org] > >>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:25 PM > >>To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefe

Re: Improviing quarterly reports

2012-01-11 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/11/2012 11:54 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 00:33, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Joe Schaefer wrote: >>> Now lets look at the remainder- several projects with no report whatsoever >> >> This has been an issue. Perhaps we need to put some teeth in the >> requirement, such as

Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report

2012-01-11 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >> - >> >> Any23 >> > ... >> Yes, all of the code has been ported from Google Code to the ASF. >> Thanks to Daniel Shahaf and Michele Mostarda for leading the >> charge here. > > To cla

Re: January 2012 Incubator Board Report

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 01:09, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Below are podling reports. Sam Ruby has already reviewed the original list > prior to posting, and requested that specific posts not be provided to the > Board, as he was unhappy with their status: > > Kato: has been in limbo for years

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:nic...@hedhman.org] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:25 PM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer >>Subject: Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings >> >>I like Joe

January 2012 Incubator Board Report

2012-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
A number of substantive issues came up during the past month. First, and although it was raised on the private list and therefore details won't be part of the public report, we advise the Board that there is substantial discussion regarding changing the Incubator VP, which has been held for almost

Re: Improviing quarterly reports

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 00:33, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Now lets look at the remainder- several projects with no report whatsoever > > This has been an issue. Perhaps we need to put some teeth in the > requirement, such as closing down commit access until reports are post

Improviing quarterly reports

2012-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Joe Schaefer wrote: > Let's stop discussing this issue in the abstract Good idea. Lets be more specific, and put together something actionable. > Now lets look at the remainder- several projects with no report whatsoever This has been an issue. Perhaps we need to put some teeth in the require

RE: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > The ASF is not about code; it is about community. If a community forks, or otherwise emerges around a codebase, we are not accepting the CODE: we are accepting the COMMUNITY. > One company is not a community. As you've otherwise acknowledged,

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating-RC7

2012-01-11 Thread Dave Fisher
Yes, congratulations! On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Devin Han wrote: > Hi all, > > The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating RC7 ballot has ended. We have > received 4 IPMC +1 votes (plus an additional 4 PPMC +1 votes) > during the release voting on dev and general. The vote passed! > > Results: >

RE: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Apparently Benson feels that it is unreasonable to expect at > least one Incubator PMC member to actually read the one report > that this PMC sends on. Yes, I'm irritated. To be clear, *I* read every word of every Board report that we send on. I don't take issue with whatever else you wrote.

[RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating-RC7

2012-01-11 Thread Devin Han
Hi all, The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating RC7 ballot has ended. We have received 4 IPMC +1 votes (plus an additional 4 PPMC +1 votes) during the release voting on dev and general. The vote passed! Results: >From IPMC members: name apache id +1 Yegor Kozlov(me

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating(RC7)

2012-01-11 Thread Devin Han
Hi, With 3 binding IPMC votes, this vote has passed. The following IPMC members voted with a +1 on this release Nick Burch Chris Mattmann Christian Grobmeier We will work on releasing ODF Toolkit 0.5. Thank you everyone who worked in this release ! Thanks, Devin

Mentor needed for ManifoldCF (Was: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2)

2012-01-11 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Karl Wright wrote: > With Jukka's vote, that's 2 down.  We need one more... ... which highlights the fact that we need one more mentor for the project. Tommaso and I are currently more or less actively mentoring the project, while Gianugo doesn't seem to have

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > > The only point I was trying to make is that, as soon as discussions here were > going in a direction where podlings over a year old should start coming up > with a more concrete plan for graduation, I started this discussion on the >

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:11 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 1/11/2012 6:02 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: >> On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >>> -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over >>> a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: >>> >>> C

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:09 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Marcel Offermans > wrote: >> On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >>> -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over >>> a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: >>> >>

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/11/2012 6:02 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over >> a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: >> >> Celix > > A plan is being discussed on the list, but did not mak

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over >> a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: >> >>  Celix > > A plan is being discussed on the list, but d

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Struberg
As with most things in life, things need a kick from time to time. What about collecting a nice list of 'what's the monthly report thingy about' which explains that it's not just filed unread but is pretty important. Plus again explain what information the board likes to get and that it's not

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Monteith wrote: >> Hi, >>        Does not having the report forwarded imply being pushed out of the >> incubator? As far as I can tell, the point being made was that there was >> nothing going on in the p

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Jan 11, 2012, at 23:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > -1 for forwarding no the following reports from projects that are over > a year old and lacking crisp plan for graduatuation: > > Celix A plan is being discussed on the list, but did not make it into this month's report. I would kindly like to as

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Monteith wrote: > Hi, >        Does not having the report forwarded imply being pushed out of the > incubator? As far as I can tell, the point being made was that there was > nothing going on in the project, and so nothing should be reported - I'll > leav

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Monteith wrote: > Hi, >        Does not having the report forwarded imply being pushed out of the > incubator? As far as I can tell, the point being made was that there was > nothing going on in the project, and so nothing should be reported - I'll > leav

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Stuart Monteith
Hi, Does not having the report forwarded imply being pushed out of the incubator? As far as I can tell, the point being made was that there was nothing going on in the project, and so nothing should be reported - I'll leave Benson to clarify. I'll back up what Ant said - Robert and Ant

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Brian LeRoux
Re: Cordova was completely my fault. I think after writing it and getting some quick consensus/approval my brain mistakenly filed it as done. Won't happen again! On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Thank you Sam. > > Re Cordova: no idea why this has not been submitted. It had

Re:-1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Gardler
Thank you Sam. Re Cordova: no idea why this has not been submitted. It had been written by a community member and commented by myself and Jukka on the Dev list in plenty of time. Jukka already raised this issue on the Dev list prior to your mail here. Conclusion, new project learning the ropes. Me

Re: -1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> And here we return to a thread of some weeks ago. One chair can't >> review all those reports and push the bounce buttons. Some other >> people have to step up to help. > > This Boar

-1 on this months board report (was: Small but otherwise happy podlings)

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > And here we return to a thread of some weeks ago. One chair can't > review all those reports and push the bounce buttons. Some other > people have to step up to help. This Board member reads each and every one of them every month. So it

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
I read them. I'm also in favor of Daniel's suggestion to have a smaller, trimmer IPMC. Me and Christian suggested that as well I believe or at least I did (although my small number was something like "30") or something, but that's a heck of a lot less than we have now on the IPMC. Cheers, Chris

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
And here we return to a thread of some weeks ago. One chair can't review all those reports and push the bounce buttons. Some other people have to step up to help. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, ant elder wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:58

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, ant elder wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> It IS lame because we've been beating that dead horse for over a year now >> without any changes taking place. > > What changes would you like to see? I would like to see the Incubator bou

Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Douglas
+1 (binding) Checksum and signature match, verifications from previous RCs hold b/c only NOTICE and LICENSE have changed. -C On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > Hi all, > > Chukwa 0.5.0 is ready for release.  This will be the first incubator > release for Chukwa. > > The source t

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > It IS lame because we've been beating that dead horse for over a year now > without any changes taking place. What changes would you like to see? Even if we did require all mentors to sign the reports to indicate they're still alive some won

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ross Gardler wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 20:33:22 +: > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On Jan 11, 2012 7:59 PM, "Joe Schaefer" wrote: > > > > It IS lame because we've been beating that dead horse for over a year now > > without any changes taking place. That

Re: [VOTE] Chukwa 0.5.0 Release Candidate 3

2012-01-11 Thread Eric Yang
+1 On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:07 AM, sebb wrote: > On 10 January 2012 06:09, Eric Yang wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Chukwa 0.5.0 is ready for release.  This will be the first incubator >> release for Chukwa. >> >> The source tarball artifact is available at: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~eyang/chukw

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Jan 11, 2012 7:59 PM, "Joe Schaefer" wrote: > > It IS lame because we've been beating that dead horse for over a year now > without any changes taking place. That some of you doubt we even have a > problem here is the sad part of t

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Schaefer
It IS lame because we've been beating that dead horse for over a year now without any changes taking place.  That some of you doubt we even have a problem here is the sad part of the state of the incubator. - Original Message - > From: ant elder > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Cc:

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > I hate the fact that these discussions continue to happen in a vacuum > devoid of any grasp of the reality that mentors typically don't do > a fucking thing for their podlings.  No they don't discuss reports > on list, nor do they offer opinio

Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-sharepoint-3.0-plugin 0.1-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Karl Wright
One more binding vote needed for this subpackage. Please somebody vote! Karl On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > +1 > > Tommaso > > 2011/12/29 Karl Wright > >> Hello incubator, >> >> We've decided to release some of the ManifoldCF server or target >> system plugins with th

Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-solr-4.x-plugin 0.1-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Karl Wright
We need one more binding IPMC vote for this sub-package. Any takers? Karl On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > +1 > > Tommaso > > 2011/12/29 Karl Wright > >> Sorry - you can find the proposed release package at: >> http://people.apache.org/~kwright. >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 201

Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-solr-3.x-plugin 0.1-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Karl Wright
With Tommaso's and Jukka's vote, that's 2 down. We still need one more binding IPMC vote for this subpackage. Karl On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > +1 > > Tommaso > > 2011/12/29 Karl Wright > >> Sorry - you can find the proposed release package at: >> http://people.apac

Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2

2012-01-11 Thread Karl Wright
With Jukka's vote, that's 2 down. We need one more... Karl On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > +1 > > Tommaso > > 2012/1/4 Karl Wright > >> Hello Incubator IPMC, >> >> Please vote on whether or not to release ManifoldCF 0.4-incubating, >> RC2.  This RC has passed our podli

Fwd: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2

2012-01-11 Thread Karl Wright
I think Jukka meant to post this to general@i.a.o... Karl -- Forwarded message -- From: Jukka Zitting Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2 To: Karl Wright Hi, +1 BR, Jukka Zitting --

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Schaefer
Yes, we should send a message to mentors that business as usual ended this month by closing the Incubator to new podlings for one month. During that time we can get our house in order by going thru the disaster zone we have created and start educating each other about mentor expectations with some

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
You've identified several problems in your last mails -- do you also have a suggestion on how to move forward? If asked, my default suggestion would be to go for "what works elsewhere", namely: reduce the IPMC to nine people, rotating annually, who are expected to read and review all podling repor

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Schaefer
I hate the fact that these discussions continue to happen in a vacuum devoid of any grasp of the reality that mentors typically don't do a fucking thing for their podlings.  No they don't discuss reports on list, nor do they offer opinions on how to grow a smallish podling's committer base, nor do

Re: [VOTE] Release MRUnit version 0.8.0-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread sebb
On 11 January 2012 18:06, Patrick Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM, sebb wrote: >> On 11 January 2012 17:49, Patrick Hunt wrote: >>> +1 sig/xsum match up, tested clean and RAT reports fine. >>> >>> It's a bit odd to me that there are two source release artifacts here >>> (one archiv

Re: [VOTE] Release MRUnit version 0.8.0-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM, sebb wrote: > On 11 January 2012 17:49, Patrick Hunt wrote: >> +1 sig/xsum match up, tested clean and RAT reports fine. >> >> It's a bit odd to me that there are two source release artifacts here >> (one archived with tar/gz the other with zip), I've not seen that

Re: [VOTE] Release MRUnit version 0.8.0-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread sebb
On 11 January 2012 17:49, Patrick Hunt wrote: > +1 sig/xsum match up, tested clean and RAT reports fine. > > It's a bit odd to me that there are two source release artifacts here > (one archived with tar/gz the other with zip), I've not seen that for > other projects. Typically you want to have a

Re: [VOTE] Release MRUnit version 0.8.0-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Hunt
+1 sig/xsum match up, tested clean and RAT reports fine. It's a bit odd to me that there are two source release artifacts here (one archived with tar/gz the other with zip), I've not seen that for other projects. Typically you want to have a single source release artifact. You could then create "c

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Michael Stroucken wrote: > Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >> Let's stop discussing this issue in the abstract then and take >> a look at the current set of reports.  Of the ones with signatures >> of mentors, I see very little to gripe about- the topics and subjects >> are

Re: Podling rename, vote needed?

2012-01-11 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:34 PM, sebb wrote: > At the very least, please update the status page to document the name change. Done. BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For a

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Stroucken
Joe Schaefer wrote: Let's stop discussing this issue in the abstract then and take a look at the current set of reports. Of the ones with signatures of mentors, I see very little to gripe about- the topics and subjects are mostly relevant to the podling's progress towards graduation. Now lets

RE: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
>-Original Message- >From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:nic...@hedhman.org] >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:25 PM >To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer >Subject: Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings > >I like Joe's suggestion of having Mentors writing a report. But I >would like t

RE: [VOTE] Release Apache Rave 0.6-incubating

2012-01-11 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
>-Original Message- >From: Franklin, Matthew B. [mailto:mfrank...@mitre.org] >Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 8:45 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Cc: rave-...@incubator.apache.org >Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache Rave 0.6-incubating > >>-Original Message- >>From: sebb [mail

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Gardler
On 10 January 2012 22:03, Marcel Offermans wrote: > Whilst I agree there is value in demonstrating a starting podling what a good > report > should look like by doing it for them, I also strongly believe in learning by > doing, so I > would still propose that a podling has a go at it themselves,

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating(RC7)

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
+1 (binding) Checked sigs, looked at the artifacts, all well Cheers! Christian 2012/1/9 Devin Han : > Hi all, > > The ODF Toolkit 0.5 is ready for release.  This will be our first incubator > release. > We had a preliminary vote in the PPMC, which had great results, including a > +1 from our ment

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-11 Thread Leo Simons
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > If there is a community > and that community doesn't want Apache to fork the code that they created, > then we will not fork that code at Apache.  If the original developers of the > code do not want their license changed, then we will not

Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings

2012-01-11 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Let's stop discussing this issue in the abstract then and take > a look at the current set of reports.  Of the ones with signatures > of mentors, I'm not sure looking at signatures on past reports is going to be useful. We've never before di

Re: On Etch status

2012-01-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Leo Simons wrote: > But I guess it does meet the minimum size. If 3 is not enough, what > number is? If it does become a problem, there's an attic process. The project is already in the process of adding another committer. I have every intention to put him on the

Re: On Etch status

2012-01-11 Thread Leo Simons
Hey hey, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > Now the big question: is Etch a candidate for graduating to TLP? > > I think it is, given the facts. It will be a TLP with issues of > activity, but so far user questions, development questions are > answered and releases are cut.

Re: On Etch status

2012-01-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
I'll give it a couple of more days for folks to look into this, then I'll propose the community to start work on graduation. Martijn On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > +1 to graduate. This is a project in a fierce space as Martijn noted, > and I think "incubating" is hamper