Re: Mentor capactity of the incubator

2018-09-16 Thread Gunnar Tapper
I don't know if I have the status to help but the will is there. Thanks, Gunnar Original message From: Justin Mclean Date: 9/16/18 2:18 AM (GMT-06:00) To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Mentor capactity of the incubator Hi, We have a large number of IPMC members (28

Re: Poddlings length of time in the incubator

2018-09-03 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hi, What's the main cause of a lengthy incubation period? Possibilities: 1. Not understanding the Apache processes? This is teachable in most cases. Shouldn't take two years in most cases, especially if mentors guide the project through the release process. 2. Contributors joining th

Re: [VOTE] Graduate the Apache Trafodion Project from Incubator to a TLP

2017-11-28 Thread Gunnar Tapper
> > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Trafodion Project be and hereby is responsible > > > > for the creation and maintenance of software related to a webscale > > > > SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads; > > > > and be it

Re: [DISCUSS] Resolution to graduate the incubating Apache Trafodion Project

2017-11-20 Thread Gunnar Tapper
e scope of responsibility of the Apache Trafodion > Project; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are > appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Trafodion > Project: > > * Amanda K Moran > * Dave Bir

Re: Affiliation vs. individual

2017-11-04 Thread Gunnar Tapper
mployees, even off hours, is the property of the > company. I'm wondering if such situations place a requirement on a private > donor to clear outside contributions with their employer? > > Dave > > -Original Message- > From: Gunnar Tapper [mailto:tapper.gun...@g

Affiliation vs. individual

2017-11-04 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hi, I've discussed this with a few individuals but would like to raise the discussion with a larger group. Situation As contributors to the ASF, we represents ourselves as individuals. Some of us contribute to projects as part of our employment, some of us donate our time privately. Discussion

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-13 Thread Gunnar Tapper
er be wrong. :) Thanks, Gunnar On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:45 PM, toki wrote: > On 12/11/2016 04:09, Gunnar Tapper wrote: > > > For documentation, I couldn't find an easy way to do multi-chapter books, > > If AOo is meant, use Master Documents. > There are a couple of

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-13 Thread Gunnar Tapper
3, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Genender wrote: > > > On Nov 13, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Gunnar Tapper > wrote: > > As mentioned, the Apache Way is that "everything happens on the mailing > lists." As a matter of fact, key parts of being an incubator is to learn > how to operate

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-13 Thread Gunnar Tapper
th English in China) and different culture world...the team is > so "scary" and asked us many times like "will they cancel the vote? do they > really welcome our project?..." when they saw this thread? > > And, let's focus on your really issue, maybe we could help you:

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
and encouraged hyperlinked and use of images and associated > example files. At ASF we have a Confluence install at > https://cwiki.apache.org/ which I think has a fairly good WYSIWYG editor > with sufficient freedoms and guidance; and the fact that it allows > structuring pages hie

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution.

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hi Woonsan, Yes, for the user@ list. At least up to a point where inline translation is working well and common. :) Thanks, Gunnar On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Gunnar Tapper > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Copy/paste

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution.

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
t;> community, and try > >>> their best to learn and follow The Apache Way. We should have the > patience > >>> for > >>> those new comers. > >>> > >>> As one thing I'm doing now is try to let more people to know our >

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
PMC does not, > > care, then utilize your language de-jour with the understanding of the > > consequences. > > > > I don’t really see a solution beyond that. I guess if you have an area > > where the devs discuss in another language and someone wants to translate > >

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
n community building. Gunnar On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Jeff Genender wrote: > and you got your answer…. what changes? > > Jeff > > > > On Nov 11, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Gunnar Tapper > wrote: > > > > Hang on a second. This was not a discussion about Rock

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
contribute, especially from people with tech writing skills. I will ask the dev community what they do with AOO, if at all. Thanks for the pointer. Gunnar On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Bertrand Delacretaz wrote on 11/11/16 9:37 AM: > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:4

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hang on a second. This was not a discussion about RocketMQ. I asked a question on the incubators list from a larger-picture perspective using Trafodion and RocketMQ as examples. As noted, neither Raynold nor I are part of the RocketMQ incubator so let's not ding that project for opinions expressed

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
count ("official account' is WeChat's product, something > like channel/blog...) who has 20,000 subscribers. And it's just one of such > accounts... > > Then my question is are PPMCs willing to engage them? > > Why Chinese? > To engage the biggest developer commun

Re: [DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-11 Thread Gunnar Tapper
For people in this particular incubator. ;) On Nov 11, 2016 2:37 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Gunnar Tapper > wrote: > > ...Talking with other contributors, there's a clear preference to use > Apache > > OpenOffice

[DISCUSS] Documentation

2016-11-10 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hi, Related to the muti-lingual issue but also separate since it has to do with tools. This might be the wrong list to so please feel free to redirect. I've created a lot of documentation for Trafodion using Asciidoc, which allows the project to include the documentation with the source. It's OK

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-10 Thread Gunnar Tapper
lish > speakers, > > >> they have limited experiences for open source especially the Apache > Way. > > >> But they are willing to contribute, willing to participate global > > >> community, and try > > >> their best to learn and follow The Ap

Re: [DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-10 Thread Gunnar Tapper
gt; >> > >> As one thing I'm doing now is try to let more people to know our > journey, > >> our experience > >> about how to follow the Apache Way, how we overcome such > >> challenges...through > >> conference, events, meetu

[DISCUSS] China Contribution. (was: RocketMQ Incubation Proposal)

2016-11-10 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Hi, Using the RocketMQ proposal to start a larger discussion. Apache Trafodion is another project that has a lot of contribution from China. One of the struggles I've seen is that the contributors aren't that active on email. Rather, they prefer to use a forum on QQ communicating in Chinese. I'

Re: Notes on branding

2016-07-08 Thread Gunnar Tapper
an incubator project? http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org Thanks, Gunnar On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Gunnar Tapper wrote: > OK, I'll fix that when I get a chance. > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton < > dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > >

Re: Notes on branding

2016-07-03 Thread Gunnar Tapper
; From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 00:05 > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Notes on branding > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Gunnar Tapper > > wrote: > > > > > FYI, "Apach

Re: Notes on branding

2016-07-01 Thread Gunnar Tapper
note, you have the project name in the upper left hand corner > twice. You might be able to merge those (preserving the "Incubating", of > course) to save some real estate and make your image case more forcefully. > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Gunnar Ta

Re: Notes on branding

2016-07-01 Thread Gunnar Tapper
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:39 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > Some notes, but again only my opinion. > > <3 > > My only nit pick with the disclaimer placement is that its even below your > normal footer. The more appropriate place is the about section on the home > page. My interpretation is that this

Re: Notes on branding

2016-07-01 Thread Gunnar Tapper
Let me offer up a concrete example since I struggle with the issue of branding: http://trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html I chose the following approach based on input from out mentor Stack: - Added (incubator) to the menu bar - Added the incubator logo on the top of the page - Placed the di