Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
Stephen McConnell wrote: Look at things from the other way round. For all practical purposes you are the defacto point-man with respect to the Directory project. From the point-of-view of people on the directory project you are the man they can turn to privaetly, ask questions, seek advice, a

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Leo Simons wrote: IMHO, as long as a project still requires a "point man" (or as long as the PMC still requires such a person in order to be kept up to date of what is happening in the directory project), the project is not ready for graduation. Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: IMHO, as long as a project still requires a "point man" (or as long as the PMC still requires such a person in order to be kept up to date of what is happening in the directory project), the project is not ready for graduation. Absolutely! A good tes

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: IMHO, as long as a project still requires a "point man" (or as long as the PMC still requires such a person in order to be kept up to date of what is happening in the directory project), the project is not ready for graduation. A

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project to be in incubation anymore. Exactly! So you are saying there should be a single lias

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project to be in incubation anymore. Exactly! So you are saying there sh

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project to be in incubation anymore. Exactly! S

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stephen McConnell wrote: ... Umm - I talked about a "point-man"! Well then, we already have designated Mentors that I refer to in case of need and that I assume are in charge. I don't see why you guys are making such a fuss over a thing that is already there and is not going away. http://incubat

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
Stephen McConnell wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project to be in incubation a

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Leo Simons wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Absolutely! A good test of maturity. If the mentor is doing absolutely nothing and things are going well, then there is no need for a mentor and quite possibly no need for the project t

MerlinDeveloper incubation query

2003-12-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Hi, I am committer at Avalon and working on (among other things) IDE tools for Avalon[1] and Merlin[2] in particular. I have been in contact with Andreas Oberhack, who has previously done a fair amount of work in this area already, and he is willing to put his code straight into the IDE effort

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
Stephen McConnell wrote: My response was related to the on-going debate about invididuals versus group reponsibilities. What I described is role of an individual lined to both an incubating project and to Apache at large. I descibed the benefit that such a "real-person" can bring to a new gr

RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > When did liason come into this? I am confused as to what on > earth oversite and assistance has to do with liason? See the quoted language below. > I am also confused as to why having an identified person > would restrict others from being involved? Read Stephen's own

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:16:56PM +1100, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > Aaron Bannert wrote: > > >>I should finally add that we have basically agreed also that the PPMC is > >>made of all PMC members and all the committers+landing PMC members, but > >>that only the mentors must always be subscribed

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:20:40AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Again? They are already voted in with the proposal, so I don't see why > they have to be voted in *again*. Because that is the intuitive way of doing it while having to put all this stuff in the proposal makes things really com

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Aaron Bannert wrote: It's a start. But you also need the landing PMC members. What's a landing PMC member? Where the code is to go into an existing project, then the PMC of pre-existing project is the landing PMC. E.g. XML-Beans is set to enter the XML project once it leaves the icnubator, s

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Healthy ASF Projects are neither leaderless nor headless. They are run by multiple heads -- individuals participating as peers -- converging on a consensus. Sometimes things may take longer than one person acting on their own, but it often means a better result, and it ens

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:02:44AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > >Who are the set of people who may add themselves to this list? > > Apache, Incubator and landing PMC members. Apache members that join > should be made part of the Incubator PMC. I don't know what a landing PMC member is, but

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:06:27AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > However there should be one person (the single mentor that we > > originally had) who is tracking the project, the PPMC etc., > > holding them to task and making the Incubator PMC aware of any > > issues. That to me is a critical

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:27:54AM +0100, Leo Simons wrote: > IMHO, as long as a project still requires a "point man" (or > as long as the PMC still requires such a person in order to > be kept up to date of what is happening in the directory > project), the project is not ready for graduation. I

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:13:46PM +1100, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > When did liason come into this? I am confused as to what on earth > oversite and assistance has to do with liason? I am also confused as to > why having an identified person would restrict others from being involved? Because i

RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Aaron Bannert wrote: > Berin Lautenbach wrote: > > It's a start. But you also need the landing PMC members. > What's a landing PMC member? If the project is intended to go under an existing PMC, e.g., axion going to the DB PMC, the "landing PMC" is the latter. I could support a policy that an in

RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Berin, > I said in an e-mail some time back that I suspect we are are > violently agreeing. I still believe that :>. :-) > Your above point exactly matches my desire. I'm not looking for what > I call "the accountable person" to drive and lead etc. in the normal > course of events. > However,

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Now ... why not designate people beforehand to provide corrective action(s)? Perhaps for the reasons that Sam is often quiet as a PMC Chair, or Greg is very careful about which e-mail address he uses. Because they have found that it *does* make a difference. Once you desig

RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > You could apply the argument above to say we don't want a chair of the > PMC or a chair of the board. No, I would not, as they are not the same as a PPMC mentor. We do have a PMC Chair, and we don't need a PPMC Chair (Greg already discussed that, as you may recall). >