Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > I have heard a few people say they "just want to mentor, without the rules > discussion crap" (see ml). Thats perfectly OK. But what do we need them on > the IPMC? One of the chief responsibilities for a Mentor is performing oversigh

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Ross, -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:20 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus) >On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mat

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Ross Gardler
On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Why is it so hard to see that the board is already watching those 22 > nascent projects in the same manner they watch the 137 TLPs? Because they are not watching with the same manner. They are delegating a

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Upayavira wrote: > The Incubator has two acute, serious problems. > > 1. First releases are too hard. No surprise. This is incredible hard to read: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.htm

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Upayavira
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013, at 07:12 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Upayavira wrote: > > We need one set who are 'incubator people' and another who are 'mentors'. > > Disenfranchising mentors and hoarding power within a small circle of IPMC > aristocrats is both unworka

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Upayavira wrote: > We need one set who are 'incubator people' and another who are 'mentors'. Disenfranchising mentors and hoarding power within a small circle of IPMC aristocrats is both unworkable and hypocritical. * It is unworkable because the people who wat

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > ...Why is it so hard to see that the board is already watching those 22 > nascent projects in the same manner they watch the 137 TLPs?... It's not. Well, maybe it is, but up to a point. The good th

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Benson, -Original Message- From: Benson Margulies Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:02 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus) >>[..snip..] > >Chris M

Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Benson Margulies
> To summarise. The incubator *is* broken (but not necessarily beyond > repair). We need as many mentors as we can get, and a smaller group of > people who are delegated responsibility for the incubator. The board > wants a group of folks to take responsibility for overseeing the early > life of co

Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus)

2013-03-31 Thread Upayavira
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013, at 01:56 AM, Chris Douglas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: > > Your position is that the IPMC fails to supervise. The consensus of the > > IPMC is that this is not true. Otherwise, someone would be reading the > > monthly report and objecti