Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everybody's a comedian, but not everybody is funny. Zut - I thought it was funny! Steve. "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/09/2003 05:48:30 AM: Please ignore this post. I saw that Nicola Ken was starting to pull up against my tail and didn't want

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread dion
Everybody's a comedian, but not everybody is funny. "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/09/2003 05:48:30 AM: > Please ignore this post. I saw that Nicola Ken was starting to pull up > against my tail and didn't want that rat bastard to have contributed more > than me statistical

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Please ignore this post. I saw that Nicola Ken was starting to pull up against my tail and didn't want that rat bastard to have contributed more than me statistically to the discussion. Thus I have posted this mail to keep Nicola Ken from beating me. I think Just in case lines of mails are count

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Please ignore this post. I saw that Nicola Ken was starting to pull up against my tail and didn't want that rat bastard to have contributed more than me statistically to the discussion. Thus I have posted this mail to keep Nicola Ken from beating me. I think Just in case lines of mails are count

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ted Leung wrote: On 9/22/2003 4:50 PM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: Rodent of Unusual Size what's the role of the incubator pmc in this? at the least, it's a set of passionate asf people who are essentially in agreement about what makes something a genuine 'apache'-style project, who review

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 4:52 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ted, If I were you, I think that I would subscribe myself to the Incubator PMC mailing list. That way you can see how things are settling in (I would expect that they could use a bit of time to consolidate all of the discussion), and if they say that

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 4:50 PM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: Rodent of Unusual Size what's the role of the incubator pmc in this? at the least, it's a set of passionate asf people who are essentially in agreement about what makes something a genuine 'apache'-style project, who review the reports o

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Rodent of Unusual Size > > 2) isn't the incubation more an oversight group, a task force, then a > > project? > > you seem to be harking back to 'projects produce code'. i disagree with > that perspective; 'projects produce goodness for the asf' might be closer. > in this case, the i

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted, If I were you, I think that I would subscribe myself to the Incubator PMC mailing list. That way you can see how things are settling in (I would expect that they could use a bit of time to consolidate all of the discussion), and if they say that they're ready, find out whom is going to take

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 1:27 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: +1. I don't think that we need have multiple people fufill all these roles. If the sponsor/shepherd/mentor is going to be a member of the incubator PMC (see 1 above), then they ought to be trusted to follow the incubator guidlines (once they exist).

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > let's make sure we're agreed on terminology here. so far, the terms > > 'sponsor', 'shepherd', and 'mentor' have been conflated. my view is > > that the latter two are the same and refer to a single individual, and > > that a sponsor is either that same person or the asf project that has > >s

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 5:39 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: 1) how do people get on the incubation PMC? any committer? only members? members and officials? everybody committer that previously has a record of helping incubation? just curious of what feelings are. anoth

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/21/2003 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ted Leung wrote: Minimum size is not enough here. There also needs to be a diversity requirement. For example XMLBeans must have no more than 50% of its committers from a single organization. Good exit criteria. You're right, of course

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Noel, if you don't mind I'll also answer this. Someone asking my permission to respond to an open comment on a public list actually makes me a bit uncomfortable. Makes me wonder why anyone they felt the need to ask. The fact that you are a member of the overseeing PM

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:39:20 -0400 (Subject: Re: roles and responsibilities) Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) isn't the incubation more an oversight group, a task force, then a > > project? > you seem to be harking back to 'projects

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... Noel, if you don't mind I'll also answer this. I agree with the principle (otherwise we get back to complete PMC incubation independence and things blow up) but there are a few things worth asking: 1) how do people get on the incubation PMC? any committer? only me

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > 1) how do people get on the incubation PMC? any committer? only > members? members and officials? everybody committer that previously has > a record of helping incubation? just curious of what feelings are. another good question. i agree with roy that anyone with

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 04:37 Europe/Rome, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin, http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start - it has been e

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > Minimum size is not enough here. There also needs to be a diversity > requirement. For example XMLBeans must have no more than 50% of its > committers from a single organization. Good exit criteria. --- Noel -

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/21/2003 7:37 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin, http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start Minimum size is not e

Re: RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In my view, the Sponsoring PMC *should* take an active role. But the > Incubator PMC is still responsible for making sure that all of criteria are > met before letting it into the ASF proper. Looking over the document, the > Sponsoring PMC would b

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Go for it! Did. Done. But I did not incorporate the other comments relating directly to Berin's question, so ... > I'm still thinking about Berin's questions but I think your response > makes sence - (I'm thinking about actual scenarios and how this may > pan-out with an eye for the potential

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Jeremy Boynes
> From: Berin Lautenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 6:35 PM > > > From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings > > Steve, > > Had a read. Great stuff :>. > > One question to all that I have been t

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start The document does state the a candidate *s

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings >>>Had a read. Great stuff :>. >>At a quick glance, I see some things to change. >> >> - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start >> > The document does state the a candidate *shall* [have] a community of at > le

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin, http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start The document does state the a candidate *shall

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Berin, > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings > > Had a read. Great stuff :>. At a quick glance, I see some things to change. - there has not been stated a minimum community size to start - it has been explicitly stated that a project does NOT need to have its e

RE: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Alex Karasulu
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: roles and responsibilities > > > From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings > > Steve, > > Had a read. Great stuff :>. > > One question to all that I ha

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Steve, Had a read. Great stuff :>. One question to all that I have been trying to get clear in my head. What is the break up of responsibility between the Incubator PMC and the Spons