Re: [IMO] There are no Incubator issues

2013-11-08 Thread Eric Johnson
"Welcome to the community. Go read the wiki. Follow the mailing list. Figure out everything else by yourself! Good luck. Let us know when you think you're ready to be a TLP." Really? One of my co-workers hit me with the line one: "Is that your best work?" Eric. On 11/7/13, 3:34 PM, Martijn

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-03 Thread Eric Johnson
My one suggestion would be to group all the historical patterns/commentary at the end of the document. That way, people looking for specific information about current practices will not have to wade through historical information. Eric On 7/2/13 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, May 9,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-21 Thread Eric Johnson
Part of how best to handle this is to remind people, when they're complaining, to keep two things in mind: a) only state the behavior you observed/read/witnessed, and be specific, rather than using generalizations such as "always", or "never." b) Keep to "I" statements. As silly as the templa

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

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Johnson
If this was a software project, and the appropriate answer was unknown, they you might apply a "lean startup" approach, and figure out how to run tests to see which way works best. Given the number of incubating projects, should be easy to run some experiments. Then you just need to build up s

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: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Johnson
I'm mostly just a lurker on this list, having thought about bringing a project to Apache about 24 months ago[1], realizing we didn't quite have the demand/community. Since then I've been lurking, wanting to see when/whether it makes sense to attempt it again, reflecting on the state of the proj

Re: An idea you might call pre-incubation

2011-02-11 Thread Eric Johnson
As an Apache outsider who has some role in guiding our overall company use of open-source software, the high-barrier to entry is *precisely* what makes Apache currently so valuable to us, as a client. Not sure you want to dilute that. -Eric. On 2/11/11 8:44 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Those

Continuing our work on GenXDM - port of XML Security to use it

2011-01-21 Thread Eric Johnson
I've previously mentioned our GenXDM project on this mailing list. And I posted an incubator proposal (gXML at the time). As a quick reminder, GenXDM defines a Java API for the XQuery Data Model, via a layer of indirection, in such a way that you can choose different XML tree implementations a

gXML project moved to Google Code

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Johnson
not yet really wanting to look deeply at code. And once we've developed a more credible community (hopefully including some of you!), we plan on coming back! Thanks for all the support so far. Feel free to drop me an email directly if you wish, or join the mailing list. -Eric Johnson ---

Re: an experiment

2010-08-16 Thread Eric Johnson
On 08/16/2010 09:32 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> I've already decided that I'm going to have to recruit a number of key >> mentors to help me protect the project during incubation. > Historically, I think there are two classes of podlings:

Re: [PROPOSAL] gXML project

2010-07-15 Thread Eric Johnson
xplain, how this project compares to > VXQuery (http://incubator.apache.org/vxquery/) > > Thanks, > > Jochen > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Eric Johnson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm here proposing gXML as a new project for the Apache Incubat

[PROPOSAL] gXML project

2010-07-14 Thread Eric Johnson
. Due to the length of the proposal (lots of background material), I've not reproduced it here, but the link below will get you there. Thanks in advance for your consideration, feedback, and support! - Eric Johnson [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/gXMLPropos