roles and responsibilities

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
I have prepared a new page based on the oringal content that Berin prepared. Here is a summary of the things I changed/added: 1. cleanup of the descriptions and terminaolgy (product/project/sub-project) etc. 2. simplification of the description of the pmc (complemented with addition process con

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

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 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 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
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: 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 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 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 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: 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

2003-09-22 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

2003-09-22 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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

2003-09-23 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

2003-09-25 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

2003-09-25 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 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: 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

Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Peoples, I have taken Stephen's page and attempted to integrate my understanding of the concept of a Sponsoring Entity (e.g. XML project in the case of XMLBeans). This is all based on what I have seen during the course of the XMLBeans incubation startup. Apologies for term *Sponsoring Entity*

3rd update to roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Peoples, Have done another update and tried to represent the results of the various comments during the day. Have mainly tried to : 1) Re-emphaise the role of a Sponsor as an ongoing role. No particular requirements in the process (other than initial recommendation), but have stated that the

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: ... I have also very much de-emphasised the role of the sponsor. From what I've seen, the key role post acceptance is the Shepherd. If the Sponsor wishes to become the shepherd, then they retain the responsibilities, otherwise they can move onto other things, having con

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I have also very much de-emphasised the role of the sponsor. From what > I've seen, the key role post acceptance is the Shepherd. If the Sponsor > wishes to become the shepherd, then they retain the responsibilities I disagree. One problem is that the terms seem to be getting overloaded. But

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin: Have just gone thought the changes. I like the notion of the "Sponsoring Entity" at this addresses the entity into which a prodling is destined. Perhaps we could change the name to "Parent". I.e. if a cadidate aims to be top-level, its parent would be the Board. If the project aims t

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I like the notion of the "Sponsoring Entity" at this addresses > the entity into which a prodling is destined. Apparently, the part that "destination is an exit criteria" hasn't resonated with you. Yes, it is helpful to have an idea up front, but not in the sense where you took it, specifically

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 5:23 AM, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: ... I have also very much de-emphasised the role of the sponsor. From what I've seen, the key role post acceptance is the Shepherd. If the Sponsor wishes to become the shepherd, then they retain the responsibilities, ot

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Steve, > From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1. Entities (Board, Parent, Incubator PMC) should not assigned actional > responsibilities - only decision responsibility. Actional reposibility > should be assigned to roles that are represented by accountable > individuals. T

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin: Have just read though your email and I feel that I have very strong empathy with the position your raising - but all the same I'm going to disagree with you! I'm confident that if we were in a cafe down in the 14e we would tie this up nicely in less that a couple of hours. But that is

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: Small change in wording. "If Ted stops doing his role as Shepherd, then I would see it as the responsibility of the XML Project PMC Chair" to step in and find someone else." Wooop - a compound correction to an otherwise perfect composition: "If Ted stops doing his

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stephen, Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC should take the first responsibility to find someone where their representative to stop doing his role. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Steve, Not actually sure we are disagreeing. Let me just add some thoughts and see where we get to... > Zut ... Australia really is at the end of the earth relative to France! > (Zut translated into Australian is B* H***). . Tell me about it. The time zones are playing havoc with me. > B

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities > Date: 23/09/2003 11:20:12 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Stephen, > > Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stephen, If we ever sit down in some hypothetical cafe, remind me to have a talk with you about how to present an argument for best effect. :-) Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, it occurred to me that althoug

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC should take the first responsibility to find someone where their representative to stop doing his role. Actually - I disagree. If I say that the Board is responsible. What I am saying is th

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> >Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC > >should take the first responsibility to find someone where their > >representative to stop doing his role. > Actually - I disagree. Actually, you didn't. What you did was engage in a discussion of individual vs group r

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Project PMC should take the first responsibility to find someone where their representative to stop doing his role. Actually - I disagree. Actually, you didn't. What you did was engage in a discuss

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, If we ever sit down in some hypothetical cafe, remind me to have a talk with you about how to present an argument for best effect. :-) Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, Han

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Steve, Not actually sure we are disagreeing. Let me just add some thoughts and see where we get to... Zut ... Australia really is at the end of the earth relative to France! (Zut translated into Australian is B* H***). . Tell me about it. The time zones ar

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> if this relates to an actionable issue - could you be a touch more > specific as to the action. Actually, at this point I think that discussion has converged, a consensus appears to have emerged, and since Berin has taken a lead on coalescing this material, I think it makes sense to give him (an

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
>>Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat >>injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, > Hang on a tick - I have to look this one up! LOL Well, for a start, referring to every decision making body as dysfunctional wasn't the wisest course of action in my vi

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Think of this entire process as the establishment of a set of imutable > procedures that will protect us from the breakdown of their system. Things don't work that way, Stephen. People don't. Especially the kind of people who participate here. This is not a community of bureaucrats. As under

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Think of this entire process as the establishment of a set of imutable procedures that will protect us from the breakdown of their system. Things don't work that way, Stephen. People don't. Especially the kind of people who participate here. This is not a community o

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > As underspecified as the process may have been, you are engaging > > in vast overengineering. > If there is overengineering I need specific in order to address the concern. I hope you can see the humor in that juxtaposition. --- Noel

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Once I got past some of your phrasing, which I consider somewhat injudiciously selected considering your likely audience, Hang on a tick - I have to look this one up! LOL Well, for a start, referring to every decision making body as dysfunctional wasn't the

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/22/2003 6:28 PM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities Date: 23/09/2003 11:20:12 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen, Actually, I think you had it right the first time. The XML Proje

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I hope that the policies, procedures, responsibilities, and > ultimate accountabilities, will have a tangible and net- > positive impact on the overall development of the Apache Community. :-) --- Noel - To unsubscrib

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I hope that the policies, procedures, responsibilities, and ultimate accountabilities, will have a tangible and net- positive impact on the overall development of the Apache Community. :-) That's it - no umbrella questions? This is so dissapointing! Steve! -- Stephen

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think that Berin and I are aiming at the same objective and have very > similar motives. I happen to think that we can leverage and utilize the > contribution of Berin's process by analysing his concers and underlying > interests and drawing fr

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Stephen McConnell wrote: Thus you have the shepherd appointed by the sponsor PMC, but being bound by the Incubator PMC rules and regs. (And I would imagine the incubator would need to agree the choice.) Which does not work in practice (with respect to current policy). The Icubator PMC has been

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Thus you have the shepherd appointed by the sponsor PMC, but being bound by the Incubator PMC rules and regs. (And I would imagine the incubator would need to agree the choice.) Which does not work in practice (with respect to current policy). T

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: An incubation needs someone that actively nutrures the community, pushes the agenda and reports to the PMC of which he is part. I call him the sponsor. We also need someone that is knowlegable of how the Incubator works and that reports to the Incubator PMC. I call him

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: An incubation needs someone that actively nutrures the community, pushes the agenda and reports to the PMC of which he is part. I call him the sponsor. We also need someone that is knowlegable of how the Incubator works and that reports to the

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: It's about having an "elder" shepherd mentoring the main shepherd, and possibly requiring at least two people helping in Incubation. What do others think about this? Over-regulation. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Op

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Steven Noels
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings I'm hoping that it is something that will work. I've actually got it such that the Shepherd reports to both. The Sponsor is someone who he

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/23/2003 5:31 AM, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: There is only one point that I have different in my mind and that is IIUC addressed there. It's about having an "elder" shepherd mentoring the main shepherd, and possibly requiring at least two people helping in Incubation. I think that there a

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Ted Leung
On 9/23/2003 5:29 AM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings I'm hoping that it is something that will work. I've actually got it such that the Shepherd reports to both. The Spon

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Nicola, > > Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings > Done. It's *very* well writtem :-) > There is only one point that I have different in my mind and that is > IIUC addressed there. > It's about havi

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Its looking good. One point concerning the description of the Sponsoring Entity. I currently includes a sub-heading "Responsibilities o

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's about having an "elder" shepherd mentoring the main shepherd, and > > possibly requiring at least two people helping in Incubation. > As someone who has seen multiple incubations, you feel that there is an > expertise related to incubation he

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's about having an "elder" shepherd mentoring the main shepherd, and possibly requiring at least two people helping in Incubation. As someone who has seen multiple incubations, you feel that there is an expertise related to inc

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:29 AM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings I also think this is a very well-written and extremely useful document. Below are a few notes/

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Cliff, Firstly - thanks for all the thoughts. Great stuff! (I think. Grumble grumble, more work, mutter mutter :>) You are more than welcome to update anything in the document you so desire. However that's not a hint - am happy to (and will tomorrow) take all this on board and make the cha

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > Cliff, Firstly - thanks for all the thoughts. Great stuff! (I think. Grumble grumble, more work, mutter mutter :>) Hehehe, you write stuff too well ;-) ... * "On acceptance of a candidate project, the assigned Shepherd and nominated Sponsor shall be added to the set of

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin: Total agree with your comments and suggestions you provided in response to Cliff. Berin Lautenbach wrote: Cliff, Firstly - thanks for all the thoughts. Great stuff! Totally !! Feedback is really helpfull. The detail and obviouse attention to content is exactly the sort of thing we

RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:23 AM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > Cliff, > > Firstly - thanks for all the thoughts. Great stuff! (I think. > Grumble grumble, more work, mutter mutter :>) > > You are more than welcome to update anything in the document you so > desire. However that's not a

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-24 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sometimes a sponsor or a shepherd has to act fast and remove from CVS > things that are not correct, like licensing. Or simply to give a hand, > always about incubation things. > > I don't find it inconsistent with meritrocracy, as they should be

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-25 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Cliff, Just saw your updates. Many thanks indeed! Allowed me to be lazy :>. Have also added something around your comment, echoed by Nicola, around the Shepherd not being an initial committer, but having CVS access for administrative purposes. Cheers, Berin Cliff Schmidt wrote: On We

Re: Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One point concerning the description of the Sponsoring Entity. I > currently includes a sub-heading "Responsibilities of the Sponsoring > Entity". The content is basically describing responsibilities of the > Shepherd. It would read better if t

[doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/14/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kenneth Tam wrote: > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html > "A Mentor is a role undertaken by a permanent member of the Apache > Software Foundation and is chosen by the Sponsor to actively lead in > the d

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/14/06, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/14/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth Tam wrote: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html > > > "A Mentor is a role undertaken by a permanent member of the Apache > > Soft

RE: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: > Could someone point to the post that would explain how it should be fixed? To quote myself, but this is hardly the first time it has come up: --- Mentors are (MUST BE) Incubator PMC Members. ASF Members are automatically eligible for PMC membership; non-Members may be ele

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: To quote myself, but this is hardly the first time it has come up: --- Mentors are (MUST BE) Incubator PMC Members. ASF Members are automatically eligible for PMC membership; non-Members may be elected at the discretion of the Incubator P

RE: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > It is absolute nonsense to have someone guiding newbies through > the ASF process when they haven't even made it to the halfway > point themselves. Membership is a half-way point? What's the full distance? ;-) But I agree with you: "It is absolute nonsense to have some

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: It is absolute nonsense to have someone guiding newbies through the ASF process when they haven't even made it to the halfway point themselves. Membership is a half-way point? What's the full distance? ;-) I'll le

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 7/14/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That doesn't mean people need to be an ASF member to be involved in incubation of a project -- they simply don't meet the required need for a Mentor who is an ASF member. +1. -- justin -

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
On 7/14/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/14/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't mean people need to be an ASF member to be involved in > incubation of a project -- they simply don't meet the required need > for a Mentor who is an ASF member. +1. --

RE: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That doesn't mean people need to be an ASF member to be involved in > > incubation of a project Goes without saying. :-) More on the rest in a bit. --- Noel - To unsubscri

RE: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Membership is a half-way point? What's the full distance? ;-) > I'll let you know when I get there. According to some, disagreeing with Roy is the obligatory Right of Passage. ;-) > > But I agree with you: "It is absolute nonsense to have some

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
r? Could someone point to the post that would explain how it should be fixed? (focussing just on the document, not the content) IMO policy should be maintained in only one document. the supporting documentation should add descriptive and discursive content (unsuitable for policy) and refer to

Re: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-15 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: We just voted to elect a non-Member ASF Officer to the Incubator PMC in order for him to act as Mentor for the projects sponsored by the PMC of which he is the PMC Chair. Do we wish to declare that election and process null and void? Or do y

RE: [doc] Roles and Responsibilities Update Needed [WAS Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier?]

2006-07-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy, Thanks. So let's clarify some of these issues (out of order from your reply). > > [The need for a Mentor to be an ASF Member was] imposed by > > no other agency than the Incubator PMC, itself. > A need imposed by the board when it created the Incubator with a given > purpose that cannot be

[jira] Created: (INCUBATOR-35) Move discursive material about PMC from policy to roles and responsibilities

2006-07-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
Move discursive material about PMC from policy to roles and responsibilities Key: INCUBATOR-35 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-35 Project: Incubator

[jira] Commented: (INCUBATOR-35) Move discursive material about PMC from policy to roles and responsibilities

2006-07-23 Thread Craig Russell (JIRA)
lution. Maybe this gets "fixed" during post-processing of the xml but it doesn't follow the pattern elsewhere in this document. > Move discursive material about PMC from policy to ro

[jira] Closed: (INCUBATOR-35) Move discursive material about PMC from policy to roles and responsibilities

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
d the corrected version. VOTE approved - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200607.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Committed. > Move discursive material about PMC from policy to roles and responsi

[GitHub] [incubator] justinmclean merged pull request #42: Clarify and simplify a little the roles and responsibilities page

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[GitHub] [incubator] justinmclean opened a new pull request #42: Clarify and simplify a little the roles and responsibilities page

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