Re: marvin report reminders

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 8:06 PM, David Crossley wrote: > Alan Cabrera wrote: >> >> Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? > > At > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/board_reminders/ > > There are various discussions in the Incubator archives about how the >

marvin report reminders

2013-05-08 Thread David Crossley
Alan Cabrera wrote: > > Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? At https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/board_reminders/ There are various discussions in the Incubator archives about how the data lists (for mail addresses for each project due to report each mon

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Will a lazy consensus IPMC time be as motivating (for taking time to verify > releases) as the required 3rd vote? Sebb is awesome. I think people make the effort because they want to. The 72 hour period allow for people to participate if th

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Suresh Marru
On May 8, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > One last suggested refinement: > > At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where the > third is generally a backup for the others in a transition period, such > as one of the mentors looking to shed their

[jira] [Created] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32) Establish whether "Apache MRQL" is a suitable name

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera (JIRA)
Alan Cabrera created PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32: - Summary: Establish whether "Apache MRQL" is a suitable name Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alexei Fedotov
If I'm a king of a dream forest... I think how to improve attractiveness of free software to contributors. It is no longer a cool trend. How about find some resources (maybe internal ones) to make people strengthen the community by creative reasons? Business reasons are short living (compared to c

Re: Would like to be added to Climate incubator group

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Joyce
Thanks Suresh, this is exactly what I needed! I'm able to commit now. Cheers! On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (398J) < chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Thanks Suresh! > > ++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senio

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > On May 8, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > > > > On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: > >>> > >>> On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM,

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > >> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: >>> >>> On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson wrote: One last suggested refinement: At least two ment

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> >> On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson wrote: >>> One last suggested refinement: >>> >>> At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where the >>> third

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Suresh Marru wrote: >> Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A >> mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the >> mentor risks being removed for not performing their duties. Podlings that >> do not have

Re: A lot of reports missing these period

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? Regards, Alan On May 7, 2013, at 7:25 PM, David Crossley wrote: > Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> Folks, >> >> its reporting time and at the wiki are a lot of them missing! >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2013 >> >> Ambari >> Blur >> Del

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson wrote: > > One last suggested refinement: > > > > At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where the > > third is generally a backup for the others in a transition per

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Suresh Marru
On May 8, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All > except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would > become emeritus mentors that can be reinstated merely by asking. There is a fundamental flaw he

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson wrote: > Mostly a lurker, but a quick reply... > > And, in order to facilitate continuous improvement over time, the incubator > as a whole could periodically survey random incubator committers and > determine whether they're getting the support they

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Tim Williams wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> ... >> Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A >> mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly >> state this else the mentor risks being removed for

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Eric Johnson
Mostly a lurker, but a quick reply... On 5/8/13 2:53 AM, Tim Williams wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: ... Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the mentor risks be

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > The probationary PMC proposal of Chris' which Greg is championing > gives teeth to the whole process. That's what the IPMC needs - teeth. Shuttling the kids off to the grandparents, even if they have all their teeth, is not the way to go. :)

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> ...I continue to hope for consensus on the thing I wrote... > > I had another look at > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BensonApril2013ProcessProposals and I > like it. > >

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All >> except, of course, me, >> because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors >>

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > ...I continue to hope for consensus on the thing I wrote... I had another look at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BensonApril2013ProcessProposals and I like it. While asking all podlings to confirm their current champion (which your pro

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I perceive here that we have reached a favorite knot: the tension between 'mentor as coach' and 'mentor as supervisor'. This PMC's job, as delegated by the board, is supervision. If the mentors don't supervise, who will? On the other hand, the very term, 'mentor', is much more suggestive of 'coac

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Tim Williams
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > ... > Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor > is free to become inactive but must explicitly > state this else the mentor risks being removed for not performing their > duties. I like it all. A lot.

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ...I've made a proposal for giving the IPMC teeth but it hasn't gained > support.. URL? > ...In the absence of something else with teeth then I'm +1 for > probationary TLPs as proposed by Chris as long as we stop accepting > projects that ar

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread ant elder
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> >> Discussions on Ross' and Chris' proposals ground to a halt. >> >> In my view, there are real issues that drove those discussions, even if >> those discussions drove some of us to d

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Ross Gardler
On 8 May 2013 01:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All >> except, of course, me, >> because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors >> that >> c

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Ross Gardler
On 7 May 2013 21:15, Greg Stein wrote: > On a whole different direction, one way to "scale" is to shift from > Incubator-managed podlings to Board-managed. The podling would > effectively be a "TLP on probation". The Champion, Mentors, and Board > would be providing oversight. > > I would posit th

Re: Looking for a Champion

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Tom Everett wrote: > ...I haven't made a > significant effort to build a community around Pragmatach, mainly because > I'm not familiar with how to announce it, where, and to whom... The best way to build a community is to write enough initial code to demonstrate y

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All > except, of course, me, > because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors > that > can be reinstated merely by asking An annual "spring

If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors that can be reinstated merely by asking. Those emeritus mentors who wish to remain mentors must acknowledge that they will per

Re: Would like to be added to Climate incubator group

2013-05-08 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Thanks Suresh! ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++