Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-10 Thread Vinayak Borkar
Hi Dave, I apologize if the answer you got to your question about VXQuery usage to be clueless and abstract. Since we did not see any feedback to the response to your question, the conclusion was that you were satisfied with the answer. The VXQuery team would have and still would appreciate

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-06 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > I even asked a technical question about one of their suggested use cases - > organize and accessing Edgar documents. A source I have actually worked > with. Company data is something I've been around all my life and I am in my > 50s. I grew up a

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Ant, I was the shepherd on VXQuery in their last reporting period. I really don't feel like anything is really happening in the project, at least not anywhere that is visible. I even asked a technical question about one of their suggested use cases - organize and accessing Edgar documents. A

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread Till Westmann
Ant, I think that everybody in the VXQuery podling would be very happy to have you on board as a mentor, even if we manage to release before the next report (which I still think we will). Please let us know if you would be willing to spend a few cycles helping VXQuery. Thanks, Till On Sep 5,

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
I don't see the need or point in being so draconian with the poddling especially given its history, so if you really do want to initiate retirement discussions if they've not released by their next report (which is just a few weeks away right?) I'll be voting against it and will volunteer to be a m

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, ant elder wrote: > To me VXQuery looks like an example of a project being let down by the > Incubator PMC. Regardless, they will have to overcome their challenges themselves. > Similarly with the no releases in 4 years - they've attempted to > release twice and bo

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
Dropping the vxquery mailing list... To me VXQuery looks like an example of a project being let down by the Incubator PMC. This labeling issue was just an honest attempt at trying to be helpful not some underhanded attempt to try to circumvent the ASF release policy, if they were getting adequate

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-05 Thread ant elder
Thanks for doing that so promptly Till. ...ant On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Till Westmann wrote: > Just for the record: The website is updated (from the branch that will > hopefully be released soon). > > Till > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 3

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-04 Thread Till Westmann
Just for the record: The website is updated (from the branch that will hopefully be released soon). Till On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Crossley wrote: >> ant elder wrote: >>> Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to i

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-04 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Crossley wrote: > ant elder wrote: >> Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build >> instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some >> released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other projects >> a

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-03 Thread David Crossley
ant elder wrote: > Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build > instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some > released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other projects > and podlings have done something similar anyway. Is it that the

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-03 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Just to confirm several other Apache projects web site include links to nightly builds, but in most cases it's clear that it for development use, so is it OK to do like these projects do? Solr: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NightlyBuilds JMeter: http://jmeter.apache.org/nightly.html Direcory:

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-03 Thread ant elder
Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other projects and podlings have done something similar anyway. Is it that the website describes it as

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-09-03 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Till wrote: >> Marvin Humphrey hat am 22. August 2013 um 18:21 >> geschrieben: >> Let me be blunt: VXQuery needs to make an incubating release. >> >> Personally, I think it's important that we see one before your next >> quarterly report. > > Yes, I agree. And pr

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Fisher
Marvin, I completely agree. There has been rather little happening in VXQuery for quite some time Regards, Dave On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > (continuing a conversation which is cross-posted to general@incubator and > vxquery-dev@incubator...) > > Hi VXQuery developers

Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-08-22 Thread Till
> Marvin Humphrey hat am 22. August 2013 um 18:21 > geschrieben: > > (continuing a conversation which is cross-posted to general@incubator and > vxquery-dev@incubator...) > > Hi VXQuery developers, > > It's been a month since this exchange about how to succeed in the Incubator > has passed: > > O

Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report

2013-08-22 Thread Marvin Humphrey
(continuing a conversation which is cross-posted to general@incubator and vxquery-dev@incubator...) Hi VXQuery developers, It's been a month since this exchange about how to succeed in the Incubator has passed: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-19 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Till Westmann wrote: > Yes, release votes are one point, another point is that we could probably > avoid asking for votes for more than one RC on general@i.a.o if we had more > ASF-experienced eyes looking at it on the dev list. > > Wrt to the other points you men

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-19 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > What kind of Mentor activity do you think VXQuery would benefit from? I don't think, there are any pressing issues. Basically, as I know from my own experience, you can feel kinda lost, if mentors aren't actively participating in every d

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Till Westmann
Hello Marvin, On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: >> Are you having difficulty getting releases reviewed? (That's a classic pain >> point for podlings that have been around for a while.) By the way, when was >> the l

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Are you having difficulty getting releases reviewed? (That's a classic pain > point for podlings that have been around for a while.) By the way, when was > the last release? "Date of last release" is in the podling report template, > but

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Hello, Till, On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Till Westmann wrote: > actually my remark in the report was less about the activity of you, the > active mentor, than about the fact that you are the only one. So "more than > one active mentor" would have been a better wording. What kind of Mentor a

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Till Westmann
> > I am no longer able to sign this off, as the Wiki page is already closed for > edits. So, for the record: Till's report is just fine, in particular his > remark on the less-than-active mentors. (Sorry for that.) > > Jochen > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Ti

Fwd: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I am no longer able to sign this off, as the Wiki page is already closed for edits. So, for the record: Till's report is just fine, in particular his remark on the less-than-active mentors. (Sorry for that.) Jochen On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Till wrote: > Hi, > >