Re: Thoughts about formalizing the role of shepherd

2013-01-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 13, 2013 11:46 AM, "Benson Margulies" wrote: >... > Next down are the 'vice-chairs', currently known as the shepherds. > Each of these people is responsible for a group of projects, dispersed > across the reporting cycle. The shepherd, at least, tunes into the > reports, but also checks in

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-125) How-to guide for "Assembling LICENSE and NOTICE"

2013-01-13 Thread Marvin Humphrey (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-125?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13552464#comment-13552464 ] Marvin Humphrey commented on INCUBATOR-125: --- > 1. I want to start by noting t

Re: Thoughts about formalizing the role of shepherd

2013-01-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Right now, a shepherd assignment is a temporary job. It starts as the > reports for a cycle begin to come in, and it ends when the shepherd > feels that he or she has done what makes sense in terms of reporting > to the community and, in s

Re: Thoughts about formalizing the role of shepherd

2013-01-13 Thread Suresh Marru
One comment or worry I have is, so far the shepherd comments have been very useful, but we have to be cognizant of the fact that shepherds are very less informed then mentors (by design). So the shepherd comments have to be really constructive. There is a risk of some delicate conversations offe

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Just think about this for a second, what's more > likely for people to start suing us over, some > bug in the NOTICE file or an undetected backdoor > in one of our programs? I am personally far more > concerned about the current state of the

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Suresh Marru
Thanks Benson for the clarification, now the timeline fully makes sense to me. Suresh On Jan 13, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: >> Hi Benson, >> >> + 1 for this time line, it really helps to have shepherds a day or two. I am >

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Maybe this version fits? T1 T2T3 T4 || | | friday beforewedfriday beforewed friday before board meeting board meeting board meeting

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Hi Benson, > > + 1 for this time line, it really helps to have shepherds a day or two. I am > sorry I couldn't get my shepherd reports in this time with post-holiday > catchup and sickness. > > I do not want to add too much to the process, b

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > What do people think of making the podling reporting deadline be a > full week before the board's deadline? I think this would be extremely helpful. Thanks, Roman. - To

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi Benson, + 1 for this time line, it really helps to have shepherds a day or two. I am sorry I couldn't get my shepherd reports in this time with post-holiday catchup and sickness. I do not want to add too much to the process, but want to understand the buffer between shepherd comments and yo

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: > There have been many opinions expressed over the last few years about what > constitutes a "release". At least one opinion was that having the source in > SCM that is freely available constitutes "release" and therefore best > practice is t

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Craig L Russell
There have been many opinions expressed over the last few years about what constitutes a "release". At least one opinion was that having the source in SCM that is freely available constitutes "release" and therefore best practice is to mark the source directory with the appropriate source L

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Is it actually required to have these files in SCM in any particular location, or just to have a build/packaging process that delivers them in the package? On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: > We can also add a checklist item to the top level checklists, to be done as > part

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Craig L Russell
We can also add a checklist item to the top level checklists, to be done as part of the source migration: Add LICENSE and NOTICE files to the top level repository directory. [I don't know if there is anything more specific than that, because where a project is using project/trunk, project/s

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-125) How-to guide for "Assembling LICENSE and NOTICE"

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-125?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13552284#comment-13552284 ] Benson Margulies commented on INCUBATOR-125: I have some questions / sugges

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> 1. Why are podlings having so much trouble getting the legal metadata >>correct? > > * Our documentation on legal metadata is ill-organized, voluminous, and > ultima

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > 1. Why are podlings having so much trouble getting the legal metadata >correct? * Our documentation on legal metadata is ill-organized, voluminous, and ultimately overwhelming. * The NOTICE construct is fundamentally confusing

Using the incubator space to release new languages

2013-01-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
OpenOffice 3.4.1, released in 20 languages when it was still undergoing incubation in 2012, will be released in 8 more languages later this month. We will keep the version number at 3.4.1 and release a patch to the current 3.4.1 sources that contains just the language support for the new langu

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
It is a week before the board meeting, but not a week before the weekend before the board meeting. The board asked me to have our report in place by the end of the Friday before the Wednesday of the board meeting so that they could review over the weekend. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jukka

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > What do people think of making the podling reporting deadline be a > full week before the board's deadline? That's what it used to be. Did it change? BR, Jukka Zitting --

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 13/01/13 12:45, Benson Margulies wrote: ... 3. Most of the reviewing in this area is done by sebb. We're lucky to have him paying attention to this at all, because it sure seems sometimes as if no one else does. Adding all of this up, I've got a very modest proposal. Let's create a checklist,

Re: The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Ted Dunning
That would help a lot, especially with the "all mentors sign" policy. The chance that one or more mentor is unable to review and sign a report with a day or so notice is unfortunately high. A few more days in that schedule would make the probability of getting all three sigs much higher. On Sun,

Re: Mesos - Shepherd's report

2013-01-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Added you Cheers Christian On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Benjamin Hindman wrote: > Hi Christian, > > I'm at BenjaminHindman (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BenjaminHindman). > > Thank you! > > Ben. > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Christian Grobmeier > wrote: > >> On a side note: >>

The report/review cycle

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
This time around, the timing was as follows: Wed 09-01-2013: Deadline for podling reports Friday 11-01-2013: Practical board deadline Wed 16-01-2013: Board meeting In other words, we had a two day window for shepherds to digest reports, then go dig around to fill in their picture. Now, maybe t

Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews

2013-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to try to break this down a bit. I'm ignoring, for this reply, the questions Joe raises about supervising things other than the legal metadata. 1. Why are podlings having so much trouble getting the legal metadata correct? Every single existing Apache release is a sample. The top problem

Re: Mesos - Shepherd's report

2013-01-13 Thread Benjamin Hindman
Hi Christian, I'm at BenjaminHindman (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BenjaminHindman). Thank you! Ben. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On a side note: > if you want access to the wiki, no problem. Just mail your wiki name > from this wiki: > http://wiki.apache

Please add me to the ContributorsGroup for wiki.apache.org

2013-01-13 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi folks, I'm a new mentor of JSPWiki but unable to to make any changes (everything in an InmutablePage) - my login name is SiegfriedGoeschl Thanks in advance Siegfried Goeschl On 10.01.13 17:12, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: I've reviewed