On May 16, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Travis Vitek > <travis.vi...@roguewave.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Stefan Teleman <stefan.tele...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I am going to ask the following questions in the open. Perhaps this >>> way I will get an answer: >>> >>> 1. Apparently, "Bill's emails" were sent and replied to on the private >>> list. I have not received any of them, although I am on the private >>> list. Or at least, I was on the private list as recently as late >>> March. Is this a case of mailing list malfunction? If that is the >>> case, it should be fixed. >> >> The e-mails regarding the ICLAs were sent to the @private list on 5/1. > > Well, yes I got that. My problem is that I no longer receive emails > from @private. I used to, until about end of March/first week of > April. I even sent a bunch of emails to @private. If this is a > @private mailing list problem, I'm asking that it be fixed. The ASF > instructions about the @private mailing list states "contact your > PMC". So, here I am, contacting the stdcxx PMC about @private. I > would appreciate an answer.
I defer to Bill (Bill Rowe, that is) regarding whether he is willing to share his emails. > > >>> 3. There was a recent and important PMC change at stdcxx. >>> Congratulations to Jim Jagielski for his new role as PMC Chair. Again, >>> I learned of this change yesterday, and that only from Jim's email. I >>> haven't received any notification about Jim's appointment prior to >>> yesterday, although, to be fair, I knew about it at the beginning of >>> May, because I read the ASF Board Minutes. Again, why wasn't there any >>> notification of this change? >> >> I read about it in the e-mail entitled 'ASF Board Meeting Summary - April >> 18, 2012'. I don't normally read the meeting minutes, but I figured >> something was coming given the kerfuffle over the lack of a March status >> report (all of which was discussed on the @private list). > > Yes, I think that's how I learned about it too. But I generally don't > read Board Minutes, so the fact that I learned about this change was > entirely by accident. > Doug submitted his notice to the PMC directly. In general, the Chair is a PMC-related issue and should have no impact on the dev community at all. > I also believe that having a sudden PMC Chair change is an important > enough event that it warrants an email sent to dev@, announcing the > change. A three line email announcing the change isn't really that > much to ask of the ASF Board. In my experience, and generally > speaking, developers like knowing who is the new Boss. > >>> 4. The nightly build emails, which had restarted towards the end of >>> February/beginning of March, have stopped. Why is that? >> >> It looks like the February builds were kicked off manually by Farid. I'm not >> sure if the build system is configured to poll svn automatically or not, but >> the last submit to stdcxx was on 2/20, so there has been no need to do any >> builds since that time. > > Ah, OK. ISTR an email from Farid about some kind of move of the > nightly build infrastructure, and some problems with the builds as a > result of this move, but I don't remember the details right now. > > Lastly, I have attached a patch for stdcxx-1058. I'd appreciate a > review, so I can commit the fix. > > I have a bunch of more fixes and patches, but given that everyone is > busy, I'd rather submit the patches one by one, instead of carpet > bombing. > > Thank you very much! > > --Stefan > > -- > Stefan Teleman > KDE e.V. > stefan.tele...@gmail.com >
