Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-24 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 1/22/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is also good to try to ensure that discussion has settled down, and that > there is a consensus before calling for the vote. I generally believe that > a good ASF vote isn't called to make a decision; it is called to ratify one. Exactly.

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-23 Thread David N. Welton
Leo Simons wrote: > PS: My non-pmc-hat comment would be "boring", but nevermind me :-) Well... look on it as a validation of the principles of open source that big business systems like this are getting built as open source - and by real communities, to boot:-) And, in reality, there are som

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-23 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Leo Simons wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:39:51PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Anyone on the PMC want to comment on this proposal? It seems as if there is significant interest from ASF Members, a willingness on the part of the donors to adopt The Apache Way, a number of ASF Members willin

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Anyone on the PMC want to comment on this proposal? It seems as if there is significant interest from ASF Members, a willingness on the part of the donors to adopt The Apache Way, a number of ASF Members willing to act as Mentors, and no noticeably egregious problems. A

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-23 Thread Leo Simons
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:39:51PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Anyone on the PMC want to comment on this proposal? > > It seems as if there is significant interest from ASF Members, a willingness > on the part of the donors to adopt The Apache Way, a number of ASF Members > willing to act as

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-22 Thread David N. Welton
Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>I was actually under the impression [that] the wiki was >>the place to leave this sort of thing > During the collaborative phase of the PROPOSAL, the Wiki is used as a common > edit space. When the VOTE comes up, the final propoal MUST be included in > the VOTE e-mail, el

RE: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I was actually under the impression [that] the wiki was > the place to leave this sort of thing During the collaborative phase of the PROPOSAL, the Wiki is used as a common edit space. When the VOTE comes up, the final propoal MUST be included in the VOTE e-mail, else that e-mail will be reject

RE: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Anyone on the PMC want to comment on this proposal? It seems as if there is significant interest from ASF Members, a willingness on the part of the donors to adopt The Apache Way, a number of ASF Members willing to act as Mentors, and no noticeably egregious problems. Anything else? ;-)

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-18 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Jacopo Cappellato wrote: Hi Geir (and all), my name is Jacopo Cappellato, I'm one of the developers of the OFBiz project and, as you can imagine, I'm very interested in your feedback about our request to join the ASF Incubator. About the proposal posted to the Wiki instead of to this list.

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-18 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Can we please have things go to the mail list, as that should be the 'primary institutional memory' of the incubator community. +1 But let's try to say such things to be educational, not chastising. Sorry. The wiki made me do it :) I hope

Re: Wiki votes, was Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-18 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:03:14AM +0100, Erik Abele wrote: > [changed subject line though I don't intend to have a big discussion > about this topic] Grr, I just did exactly the same thing and wrote just about the same thing. My thread view must be messed up... In any case, +1 to what he said.

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-18 Thread David N. Welton
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Is this becoming the current de-facto process, posting to a wiki? (or > "@)#!)#@ wiki", as I tend to think of them...) > > Can we please have things go to the mail list, as that should be the > 'primary institutional memory' of the incubator community. Feel free to > a

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 1/18/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:45:49PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > David N. Welton wrote: > > > > > I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no > > > one else beats me to it. > > > > Here we go: > > > > http:/

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:45:49PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > David N. Welton wrote: > > > I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no > > one else beats me to it. > > Here we go: > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OFBizProposal > > I changed the proposed spo

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Hi Geir (and all), my name is Jacopo Cappellato, I'm one of the developers of the OFBiz project and, as you can imagine, I'm very interested in your feedback about our request to join the ASF Incubator. About the proposal posted to the Wiki instead of to this list... well if you go to the fi

RE: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Can we please have things go to the mail list, as that should be the > 'primary institutional memory' of the incubator community. +1 But let's try to say such things to be educational, not chastising. --- Noel

Wiki votes, was Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Erik Abele
[changed subject line though I don't intend to have a big discussion about this topic] On 18.01.2006, at 00:16, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Is this becoming the current de-facto process, posting to a wiki? (or "@)#!)#@ wiki", as I tend to think of them...) Can we please have things go to the

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread David Crossley
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Is this becoming the current de-facto process, posting to a wiki? (or > "@)#!)#@ wiki", as I tend to think of them...) > > Can we please have things go to the mail list, as that should be the > 'primary institutional memory' of the incubator community. Feel free to

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:16, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Does anyone else feel this way?  Mail archives will live for years in > distributed places.  Wiki's seem to be single-sourced and a lot more > ephemeral Yes. As the primary tool of communication for myself and many others, mails a

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Is this becoming the current de-facto process, posting to a wiki? (or "@)#!)#@ wiki", as I tend to think of them...) Can we please have things go to the mail list, as that should be the 'primary institutional memory' of the incubator community. Feel free to also have on a wiki for collaborat

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-17 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:00:06AM +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2006 04:27, David E. Jones wrote: > > As I understand it in order to become a top level project the Board ? > > must be the sponsor, which is why the proposal was written that way. ? > > That is a misconception.

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton
David N. Welton wrote: > I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no > one else beats me to it. Here we go: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OFBizProposal I changed the proposed sponsor to the Incubator PMC, as that's apparently the done thing. Ciao, -- David N. W

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton
Any other questions or comments on this for now? I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no one else beats me to it. Ciao, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ -

Incubator PMC vs Board as sponsor (Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF)

2006-01-13 Thread David N. Welton
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2006 04:27, David E. Jones wrote: > >>As I understand it in order to become a top level project the Board >>must be the sponsor, which is why the proposal was written that way. > > > That is a misconception. For projects targetting top-level, EITH

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread David E. Jones
On Jan 12, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 04:27, David E. Jones wrote: As I understand it in order to become a top level project the Board must be the sponsor, which is why the proposal was written that way. That is a misconception. For projects targetting

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 13 January 2006 04:27, David E. Jones wrote: > As I understand it in order to become a top level project the Board   > must be the sponsor, which is why the proposal was written that way.   That is a misconception. For projects targetting top-level, EITHER the Board or the Incubator PMC

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread Si Chen
Aaron, Thank you for offering to mentor the project. I am one of the other group of committers for the Open For Business project and would like to share my thoughts about "potential competition" with you. Over the past year, we've seen the growing prominence of several open source applicati

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread David E. Jones
On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote: There IS a conceptual and code-level separation between the OFBiz framework and components built on top of it, but I think it makes a nice cohesive project together. It's sort of like if Tomcat and Struts were under the same umbrella: not necess

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread David E. Jones
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:57 AM, J Aaron Farr wrote: This proposal has caught my interest. I'd be willing to help mentor. That would be great. I've been skimming through the policy emails that have been on this list for the last few days and it's sounding like 3 mentors is something that wo

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread Yoav Shapira
Howdy, > > The board response was along the lines of "why is this here?", so I > > guess the Incubator PMC should be the sponsoring entity if there is to > > be one. > > Well there must be a sponsoring entity. OFBiz would be a top level > project, so that generally leaves either the Board or the

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 1/12/06, David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we should look at whether this project is a good fit for the ASF > (I think so, or I wouldn't have mentioned the idea to them) rather than > if we are stepping on someone's toes. Geronimo steps on toes. Harmony > does to some degre

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 1/12/06, David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The proposal says that this project is to be sponsored by the ASF > > Board. Is that correct? Did the Board already +1 on or are we still > > searching for a sponsoring entity? > > The board response was along the lines of "why is this he

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread Ross Gardler
J Aaron Farr wrote: On 1/10/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are all looking forward to your comments and desire to express in advance appreciation for all that you have done and are doing for the open source world and the software world in general through your efforts in the A

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread David N. Welton
J Aaron Farr wrote: > On 1/10/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>We are all looking forward to your comments and desire to express in >>advance appreciation for all that you have done and are doing for the >>open source world and the software world in general through your >>efforts in

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 1/10/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are all looking forward to your comments and desire to express in > advance appreciation for all that you have done and are doing for the > open source world and the software world in general through your > efforts in the Apache Software F