Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Just catching up on this thread. Going back a bit. >> #2 The #1 goal is achieved via mentorship. In fact mentorship is >> not even required as the case of Zest (and hopeful Yetus soon) demonstrated. Not to pick on Zest but a casual glance at the current source release shows it contains a

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
n i. > > - Dennis > > -Original Message- > From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 05:57 > To: Incubator General > Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from > the Apache Incubator) &g

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015, at 07:06 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > > That said, I have personally been in positions where I have seen IPMC > > members ask - and even demand things at times - that I feel are > > unreasonable requests for the podling

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Andrew Purtell
> >> From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Roman Shaposhnik > >> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM > >> To: general@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite > from th

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Andrew Purtell
Can you provide a pointer to a specific example of what you mean? On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: > > > > > > ​ > > In fact, in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of > IPMC > > ​> ​ > > feeli

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
uot; Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 9:12 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) >As an immediate start to having a tool to support mentors and TLPs you >might want to consider provi

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread jan i
> -Original Message- > From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 05:57 > To: Incubator General > Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from > the Apache Incubator) > > Hi Daniel, > &g

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
General Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) Hi Daniel, On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 2015-08-04 13:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>... IMO the Incubator PMC can very much own this checklist, and I >

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > It's hard to get the balance right between appropriate oversight and > unwanted meddling. No argument there. I'm unconvinced that a restructuring of the IPMC/PPMC/Mentorship structure as it is today will solve that, though it might push it ar

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Ross Gardler
t between appropriate oversight and unwanted meddling. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Joe Brockmeier<mailto:j...@zonker.net> Sent: ‎8/‎4/‎2015 9:16 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015, at 07:06 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > That said, I have personally been in positions where I have seen IPMC > members ask - and even demand things at times - that I feel are > unreasonable requests for the podling. The reason I do not challenge > those is because I feel that t

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015, at 03:13 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but > >> it seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my questi

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Ross Gardler
eneral@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On 2015-08-04 13:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> ...Which woul

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 2015-08-04 13:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>... IMO the Incubator PMC can very much own this checklist, and I >> volunteer to contribute to creating it... > If interested, I would very much like to work with you on perhaps tu

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-08-04 13:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: ...Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I were discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of ASF IMO it's not a team that's n

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > ...Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I were > discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of > ASF IMO it's not a team that's needed, just a clear and "modular" release chec

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > > > ​ > In fact, in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC > ​> ​ > feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings. > > I've been through incubation as a mentor on Phoenix, Nifi, and now getting >

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Andy Seaborne
m] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Andrew Purtell
> ​ In fact, in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC ​> ​ feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings. I've been through incubation as a mentor on Phoenix, Nifi, and now getting up to speed on Trafodion, I have not seen micromanagement of podlings.

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Branko Čibej
be very >> true at IPMC level today." >> >> +1000 >> >> -Original Message- >> From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman >> Shaposhnik >> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM >> To: general@incubator

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Branko Čibej
On 03.08.2015 18:36, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > It's not the central Incubator folks like our regular release > reviewers and report contributors who invent these extra criteria Sorry but this has to be said: I see folks on this list inventing policy (or rather, confusing opinion and policy) all the

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-08-03 21:13, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint) but and extremely fair observation. As far as I'm concerned the issue of R&Rs of IPMC is in a state of a stalemate right now. We clearly have a "everything's fine lets just add m

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Julian Hyde
- > From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman > Shaposhnik > Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the > Apache Incubator) > > On Mon,

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Ross Gardler
al Message- From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, J

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but >> it seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of >> a week ago: what would be the effective way to change

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering >> PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?... > > How is that different from the status quo where a podli

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > I wonder how much of the silence is a notion of "I don't want to be > accountable if something goes wrong in this podling." Right, but that same concern could be applied to every single TLP and yet the board seems to do the right thing with t

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:mar...@rectangular.com] Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 09:37 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) [ ... ] It's not the central Incubator

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik >> wrote: >> > ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering >> > PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik > wrote: > > ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering > > PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?... > > How is that different from the status quo where a

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but > it seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of > a week ago: what would be the effective way to change the > status quo around IPMC an make it more board like? >

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-08-03 09:37, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?... How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active ment

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering > PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?... How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-02 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > what would be the effective way to change the > status quo around IPMC an make it more board like? The Board works very hard to provide thorough review of the reports it receives. While IPMC review of podling reports is better than it use

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-02 Thread John D. Ament
on proper oversight from mentors and the IPMC, I'm comfortable > with this approach because I never vote +1 without having done due > diligence on the release - I trust others do the same). > > > > > > Ross > > > > -Original Message- > > Fro

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
ble with this > approach because I never vote +1 without having done due diligence on the > release - I trust others do the same). > > > Ross > > -Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 6:05 PM > To: genera

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 09:08PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 29.07.2015 19:51, Greg Stein wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2015 12:45 PM, "Konstantin Boudnik" wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:25PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >>> On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Bro

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Branko Čibej
On 29.07.2015 19:51, Greg Stein wrote: > On Jul 29, 2015 12:45 PM, "Konstantin Boudnik" wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:25PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Branko Čibej
On 29.07.2015 19:25, Greg Stein wrote: > On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: >> On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: Personally I'm not too happy with how this community tracks issues, but hey, if it works for t

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Jul 29, 2015 12:45 PM, "Konstantin Boudnik" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:25PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > > > > > > On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > > > >> Personall

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:25PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > > > > On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > > >> Personally I'm not too happy with how this community tracks issues, but > > >>

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Jul 29, 2015 11:37 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > > On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > >> Personally I'm not too happy with how this community tracks issues, but > >> hey, if it works for them, why fix it? It'll be a fine day whe

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Branko Čibej
On 29.07.2015 18:14, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> Personally I'm not too happy with how this community tracks issues, but >> hey, if it works for them, why fix it? It'll be a fine day when the IPMC >> starts telling podlings how their development

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-29 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 03:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > Personally I'm not too happy with how this community tracks issues, but > hey, if it works for them, why fix it? It'll be a fine day when the IPMC > starts telling podlings how their development workflow should look like. Does "works for the

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
15 6:05 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > The proposed need to announce release votes on the IPMC list is how things > were when the in

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread David Nalley
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > The proposed need to announce release votes on the IPMC list is how things > were when the incubator was created. The need for IPMC to control the process > is another case of the IPMC over-reaching itself and in so doing causing > problems

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
SCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 01:38PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 26.07.2015 10:56, jan i wrote: > > On 26 July 2015 at 10:40, Justin Mclean wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >>> About 40% of the last 100 threads on g

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 01:38PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 26.07.2015 10:56, jan i wrote: > > On 26 July 2015 at 10:40, Justin Mclean wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >>> About 40% of the last 100 threads on general@ is "vote release"... Cut > >> that > >>> away is a good start in reforming the Incubator

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-07-27 01:20, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: I'd like to raise a somewhat orthogonal point. Mainly the fact that our obsession with doing good work with podlings could, very well, be obscuring a much more important issues. And given how limited our resources of eyeballs looking at releases are

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > > On 2015-07-26 10:56, jan i wrote: >> >> No that is an important service, on the other hand I also agree that the >> mentors should be guiding/running the podlings not general@ >> >> Maybe we can find some middle ground. >> - Mentors "run"

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi Daniel On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > Apologies in advance for slightly crossing threads here. I'll try to keep you straight in replying to the parts that belong to this thread ;-) > But let's get some facts straight first: > - The champion of the project created a DI

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-07-26 10:56, jan i wrote: No that is an important service, on the other hand I also agree that the mentors should be guiding/running the podlings not general@ Maybe we can find some middle ground. - Mentors "run" the podlings, can accept releases etc. - Mentors decide when a podlng can

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
David, I think we've been there before a few month ago. In my view, you're articulating collective (IPMC) vs. personal (mentors) responsibility. IIRC, we came to be on different sides of that divide. I'll repeat again what I said in that discussion: I like the mentor responsibility model a LOT fo

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:50 AM, toki wrote: > > > On 07/26/2015 04:35 PM, jan i wrote: > >> unless we don't trust the mentors > > It isn't a case of not trusting the mentors, but rather, the ease with > which something can be accidentally overlooked. > > Rephrased. The mentor is too close to the

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:56 AM, jan i wrote: > No that is an important service, on the other hand I also agree that the > mentors should be guiding/running the podlings not general@ > > Maybe we can find some middle ground. > - Mentors "run" the podlings, can accept releases etc. > - Mentors deci

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
Windows Phone From: David Nalley<mailto:da...@gnsa.us> Sent: ‎7/‎26/‎2015 12:36 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) Empowe

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
Since I am relatively new to the Incubator (given that it turns 13 in just 2½ month), I will ask a question that may have been answered in the earlier years: Have we given any thought to some sort of mentor rotation policy? One could argue that what we especially lack right now is the 'outside

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
to:humbed...@apache.org> Sent: ‎7/‎26/‎2015 1:55 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator Apologies in advance for slightly crossing threads here. Even though I have already sent quite a lot of emails

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
alley<mailto:da...@gnsa.us> Sent: ‎7/‎26/‎2015 12:36 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) > > Empower the Mentors to run the podlings, teach the newco

RE: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
ion? (a genuine question with no accusation intended) Sent from my Windows Phone From: Daniel Gruno<mailto:humbed...@apache.org> Sent: ‎7/‎26/‎2015 1:55 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Grad

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Gruno
Apologies in advance for slightly crossing threads here. Even though I have already sent quite a lot of emails on this subject (12 over the past week!), I feel I must reply to some of the concerns and opinions expressed in the last few emails. I do not like it when concerns are answered with t

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Ted Dunning
I think my own experience as a mentor over recent years is useful here. I thought I understood what was necessary for apache releases when, in fact, I understood release requirements for releases like the ones I had previously seen. The wider by shepherds and by the general votes was a pain

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread David Nalley
> > Empower the Mentors to run the podlings, teach the newcomers and bring it > to TLP. > As a mentor of podlings, I dislike the above idea. Mentors get busy, they miss things, sometimes big things. Sometimes things that are obvious to an outsider are missed by mentors who don't catch it. I've ce

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> About 40% of the last 100 threads on general@ is "vote release"... >> Cut that away is a good start in reforming the Incubator… Many of those vote threads are very high quality and valuable. Successful vote threads are short: a few +1

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 04:35 PM, jan i wrote: > unless we don't trust the mentors It isn't a case of not trusting the mentors, but rather, the ease with which something can be accidentally overlooked. Rephrased. The mentor is too close to the project, to see all of the errors in the project. jonathon

RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Ross Gardler
ral@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > The only downside of this proposal is that it assumes that every podling > has at least three active (!) mentors.

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread jan i
On Sunday, July 26, 2015, Don Bosco Durai wrote: > My only concern is now the mentor(s) need to check everything before > approving. In my experience, during the early stages of the releases, lot > of the license, naming, release location, etc. related issues were > identified during the approval

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Don Bosco Durai
My only concern is now the mentor(s) need to check everything before approving. In my experience, during the early stages of the releases, lot of the license, naming, release location, etc. related issues were identified during the approval in the general@ list. Which were very helpful to us. Know

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > The only downside of this proposal is that it assumes that every podling > has at least three active (!) mentors. No, I don't necessarily mean that you need 3 mentors either. One active mentor would be fine with me. Empower the podling to st

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Branko Čibej
On 26.07.2015 10:56, jan i wrote: > On 26 July 2015 at 10:40, Justin Mclean wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> About 40% of the last 100 threads on general@ is "vote release"... Cut >> that >>> away is a good start in reforming the Incubator… >> IMO Which provides a valuable service in showing poddlings on ho

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread jan i
On 26 July 2015 at 10:40, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > About 40% of the last 100 threads on general@ is "vote release"... Cut > that > > away is a good start in reforming the Incubator… > > IMO Which provides a valuable service in showing poddlings on how to make > good releases. Do we want t

Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > About 40% of the last 100 threads on general@ is "vote release"... Cut that > away is a good start in reforming the Incubator… IMO Which provides a valuable service in showing poddlings on how to make good releases. Do we want to get rid of that? Thanks, Justin -

Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-07-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >#2 The #1 goal is achieved via mentorship. In fact mentorship is > not even required > as the case of Zest (and hopeful Yetus soon) demonstrated. >#3 When mentorship is required IPMC entrusts the mentors to guide > the proj

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 24.07.2015 21:00, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: >> An an active mentor of the podling I do support the graduation. The last, to >> my knowledge, concern expressed was about insufficient open discussions of >> the >> new features on the dev@ an

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-25 Thread Branko Čibej
rojects. Only the mentors and active project community members can >> make this judgement. >> >> Thanks, >> Ross >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Konstantin Boudnik [mailto:c...@boudnik.org] >> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 6:27 PM >> To

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-24 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
among other things) what diversity means and how it is built in > Apache projects. Only the mentors and active project community members can > make this judgement. > > Thanks, > Ross > > -Original Message- > From: Konstantin Boudnik [mailto:c...@boudnik.org] > Sen

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-24 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 23/07/2015 21:19, Ted Dunning a écrit : On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:29AM, Ted Dunning wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: Looks like now we can put "git branch deletion data loss" fiction to rest.

RE: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
e projects. Only the mentors and active project community members can make this judgement. Thanks, Ross -Original Message- From: Konstantin Boudnik [mailto:c...@boudnik.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 6:27 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Congratulation - this is the longest [DISCUSS] thread on a podling graduation in the last 4 years (since ACE). Musta be some sort of record or something! Cos On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:36PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > Hello Apache Incubator, > > At the suggestion of our mentors the Ignite commun

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Dmitriy Setrakyan
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > > > Obviously it's good practice to post the outcome of offline chats to the > > dev@ list for further discussion. On the other hand, I've not seen any > > major feature appear in the Ign

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
// Putting my Ignite mentor hat on I apologies for not chiming in on this thread earlier. I am at OSCON and my connectivity is extremely limited. Thus, I'd like to constrain myself to highly actionable questions on this thread. Which is: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> Obv

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.07.2015 04:31, Ted Dunning wrote: >> There's a bit of an impedance mismatch here, I agree. I insist that Jira >> is not relevant history. > > You may or may not claim that, but the fact that issue tracking is required > to be on Apache controlled resources indicates a somewhat different > res

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:31PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Branko, > > Let me preface this by my thought that I feel that the JIRA's are a > valuable organizational tool in that I should be able to find the > information on a particular issue there. The Hadoop or Zookeeper JIRA's, > for instance, are

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:25AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 23.07.2015 23:42, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > I think it had more caustic properties. Or the correct spelling is cos'tic? > > > > I never could tell them apart... > > Alright, that's enough. From senseless bean-counting to playground > fi

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > > As far as off-list discussions are concerned, this is still a very big > > issue for me. Off-list discussions and design work is not forbidden, but > > it must be reflected back to the mailing list. > > I agree in principle but have to obj

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
I don't think that such implementation requires hand-holding either. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 23.07.2015 18:26, Ted Dunning wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > > > Concerns have been raised about the people behind the actual

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
Branko, Let me preface this by my thought that I feel that the JIRA's are a valuable organizational tool in that I should be able to find the information on a particular issue there. The Hadoop or Zookeeper JIRA's, for instance, are often models of this. Issues are discussed, reviewed, dissected

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.07.2015 04:11, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 24.07.2015 03:41, Daniel Gruno wrote: >> On 07/24/2015 03:22 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: >>> On 24.07.2015 01:25, Valentin Kulichenko wrote: I do agree that our Jira handling could be better and believe that community has already responded to thes

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > If after this lengthy thread, Ignite's Mentors remain persuaded that > it's time to graduate, I hope that others will weigh that carefully. > This is a typically wise comment from Marvin. The mentors judgement does deserve strong consid

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 23.07.2015 18:26, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > Concerns have been raised about the people behind the actual commits, >> that seems to be left open ? >>> I am not sure about this one: why there's a concern that people behind >> commits >>

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.07.2015 03:41, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 07/24/2015 03:22 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> On 24.07.2015 01:25, Valentin Kulichenko wrote: >>> I do agree that our Jira handling could be better and believe that >>> community has already responded to these discussions and addressed some of >>> the rai

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > Alright, that's enough. From senseless bean-counting to playground > fights, this thread is becoming a bit off-putting. Thanks for answering so many questions at length, Brane. I think these graduation discussions on general@incubator are m

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 07/24/2015 03:22 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 24.07.2015 01:25, Valentin Kulichenko wrote: >> I do agree that our Jira handling could be better and believe that >> community has already responded to these discussions and addressed some of >> the raised concerns. The truth is that so far many Jir

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 23.07.2015 23:42, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > I think it had more caustic properties. Or the correct spelling is cos'tic? > > I never could tell them apart... Alright, that's enough. From senseless bean-counting to playground fights, this thread is becoming a bit off-putting. -- Brane > On T

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.07.2015 01:25, Valentin Kulichenko wrote: > I do agree that our Jira handling could be better and believe that > community has already responded to these discussions and addressed some of > the raised concerns. The truth is that so far many Jira discussions have > happened on the dev list, in

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.07.2015 00:03, Pierre Smits wrote: > And we also have keep in mind that the project not only there for those > with privileges. Focus on that subset of the community isn't building > healthy, successful projects. This is the second time on this thread that you've implied that there are peopl

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Valentin Kulichenko < valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do all issues get discussed on the dev list? I would say we are very close > to it. Yes, of course, there is some Skype communication given that the > project is very complex and the team is distributed.

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Valentin Kulichenko
Hi Ted, I think the main question here, is whether Ignite community fully following the Apache Way, or in other words has an active meritocratic community which is open and makes it easy for people to join. In my opinion, absolutely Yes. The project guidelines are fully documented on the website

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
> On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > But before we go down that path I want to ask folks who have expressed factual > concerns to chime in once more and confirm which of those weren't addressed > yet, if possible. I completely agree. Enumerating the remaining, unaddresse

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator

2015-07-23 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Taylor, I agree with you - there's no rush in the graduating of course - the community and the mentors were in the consensus that the project is ready for it. However some of the points that lead to the perpetuation of the thread were obvious non sequitur, like the "63%" one. The others were very

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