Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org
 wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 wrote:
  ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
  PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...

 How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
 mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
 minimal interaction with the IPMC?


In spirit it may not be very different, but in practice it is the polar
opposite. As someone who has worked through the incubation of a few
projects both as an initial committer as well as a mentor, I feel that the
biggest weakness of the current Incubator is it's very strength of being
all inclusive of different interpretations/understandings of the goals of
incubation. With every IPMC member having their own close-to-heart issues
and inclinations, along with their good intentions, I don't think we are
doing very much to help the podlings understand the principals of Apache
Way or learn self-governance that works best for their communities.
Instead, we often end up prescribing things which go beyond the charter of
the Incubator, just to establish a sense of comfort in ensuring we have met
our responsibilities.

Therefore, I too favor the idea of a smaller, well-defined, tactical IPMC
that:
a) establishes a clear objective criteria for growth and graduation
including the necessary processes and policies,
b) oversees the execution of these processes and policies via measurable
means, and,
c) has the final say in the graduation of the podling

...will be a big step in the right direction. This does look more like the
way our board is organized. Arguably, this IPMC could still enlist the help
of member/mentors but will be doing so without granting the decision making
privileges to them.

Regards,
Arvind Prabhakar




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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Arvind Prabhakar
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote:

 
 ​
 In fact, in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC
 ​ ​
 feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings.

 I've been through incubation as a mentor on Phoenix, Nifi, and now getting
 up to speed on Trafodion, I have not seen micromanagement of podlings.
 Could you point out an example? Curious what you mean.


It is worth noting that none of the IPMC members micromanage on purpose, or
are even aware that their actions are being interpreted as acts of
micromanagement. From their perspective, it is their responsibility to
guide the podling, and that is what they are trying to do. It will unfair
to bring those out as examples of micromanagement.

That said, I have personally been in positions where I have seen IPMC
members ask - and even demand things at times - that I feel are
unreasonable requests for the podling. The reason I do not challenge those
is because I feel that their asks are rooted in good intentions, and that
the IPMC in its current form encourages such involvement and authority. At
the same time I also worry about the state of the podling and what this
does to their way of thinking about Apache and the Incubator.

Regards,
Arvind Prabhakar




 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 wrote:

  On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, John D. Ament johndam...@apache.org
  wrote:
   I wonder how much of the silence is a notion of I don't want to be
   accountable if something goes wrong in this podling.
 
  Right, but that same concern could be applied to every single TLP
  and yet the board seems to do the right thing with that.
 
   Having the IPMC safety net means its at least the IPMC's fault if
  something
   goes wrong.
 
  My point all along has been that this is a false sense of security.
  ​​
  In fact,
  in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC
  feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings.
 
   Personally, I'd be happy if the PPMCs had more self governance.  But I
   think there are also some key people on the IPMC that should be able to
   lend their skills out to the broader PPMCs in case of need.
 
  Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I
 were
  discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of
  ASF.
 
  Thanks,
  Roman.
 
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 Best regards,

- Andy

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Need to be able to edit a page on wiki.apache.org

2015-08-03 Thread Amol Kekre
I want to create a wiki page for a proposal to incubate Apex with ASF. Can
someone give me edit access for the following page?

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApexProposal

For those unfamiliar with Apex; it is an unified batch and stream
processing compute platform native to Yarn that was open sourced under
Apache 2.0 by DataTorrent over a month ago.

my username is AmolKekre

Thks,
Amol


Re: Need to be able to edit a page on wiki.apache.org

2015-08-03 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Amol Kekre a...@datatorrent.com wrote:
 I want to create a wiki page for a proposal to incubate Apex with ASF. Can
 someone give me edit access for the following page?

 http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApexProposal

 For those unfamiliar with Apex; it is an unified batch and stream
 processing compute platform native to Yarn that was open sourced under
 Apache 2.0 by DataTorrent over a month ago.

 my username is AmolKekre

Done.

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Re: Reform of Incubator

2015-08-03 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:36AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
 bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org 
  wrote:
  ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
  PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...
 
  How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
  mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
  minimal interaction with the IPMC?
 
 I think it is more of a bias issue. IOW, today it seems that the default bias
 of IPMC is to consider itself a final authority (or a gatekeeper) on podling
 releases. We need to break that bias and make it so that it is truly a safety
 net, rather than a gatekeeper.
 
 IOW, I'd like the release traffic on general@ to ONLY consist of [NOTICE]
 emails, not [VOTE].

We perhaps are observing the well known phenomena called self-selection bias
[1] And it seems to me that the simplification and better clarification of the
incubation guidelines might be exactly what's needed to prevent a
bureaucratism outbreak. As well as the situation when ppl express their
expectations as a law-of-the-land (even from best intentions).

Cos



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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but
 it seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of
 a week ago: what would be the effective way to change the
 status quo around IPMC an make it more board like?
 
 Perhaps we can start from making the release policy actually
 make sense along the lines that Ross has outlined. I guess
 I can propose a change to the current policies (or to Ross'
 point just get it back from the wayback machine :-)).
 
 But seriously, who else thinks the movement towards empowering
 PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?

I think the thread fizzled because there's not a lot of support for the
idea. At least, on my end, I'm not in favor. 

Best,

jzb
-- 
Joe Brockmeier
j...@zonker.net
Twitter: @jzb
http://www.dissociatedpress.net/

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Daniel Gruno



On 2015-08-03 09:37, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote:

...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...

How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
minimal interaction with the IPMC?

As you say, releases can - if done right - be done with minimal friction 
from the IPMC, so the issue seems more to be an issue of perception and 
procedure than an issue of policy. There is a clear distinction between 
how the board acts towards TLPs and how the IPMC acts towards podlings, 
and in my opinion there should be: TLPs are _expected to know how to 
act, how to release, how to self-govern_. They have learned this through 
trial and error, many of them in the Incubator, and have built up 
procedures and cultures that enable them to (mostly) govern themselves. 
Podlings are _in training to be like that_, and even with 4, 5, 6 
mentors, it has been shown time and time again (as I believe Marvin also 
mentioned), that there will be issues with the first one or two 
releases, as is only natural when a project is learning how to do 
Apache-style releases, and then the IPMC says hang on, you need to do 
these things differently, fix this, that, and then do this, and then 
the podling slowly adapts to the way we do releases. As we continue to 
let in more and more podlings, it is also safe to assume, that the 
number of 'initial release bugs' will increase, thus this system becomes 
even more important.


To sum up my view: We have a release process that has shown many times 
that it both works and is necessary for podlings, especially on the 
first release. I think this is awesome, and I don't see the need to 
change this specific policy - *but perhaps we could ease the process, as 
I suggested last week, through better tooling and education.*


Allow me to also ask this question: If there is a _visible_ need for 
this existing policy, as has been shown on numerous occasions, how is 
empowering PPMCs by removing the policy going to solve or help the 
issue? I am all for a hands-off approach if it leads to a desired goal 
(wholly or partially), but this specific proposition seems to be 
counter-intuitive to me.


Therefore, I will suggest the same thing I did last week:

- Keep the existing policy
- Make better processes and tooling to aid podlings in their first 
release(s) (see my previous email for details)
- Consider a mentor rotation/swap-in principle to ensure a fresh 
unbiased/non-myopic governance.


Heck, I'd even, to some degree, recommend these steps for TLPs, but eh, 
that's another story :)
If we can create procedures and tools that can do most of the basic 
legal and structural checks in new release candidates, we could cut down 
the time spent arguing about the nitty gritty details, and a lot of the 
unfortunate situations where a podling needs to release fast, but gets 
caught in a legal issue, could be avoided or at the very least be 
resolved a lot faster.


With regards,
Daniel.

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apache binary distributions

2015-08-03 Thread Jochen Theodorou

Hi all,

some of the general discussion recently made me wonder about one point 
with regards to binary distributions. It was pointed out, that a binary 
distribution of a source code release has to be handled like a release 
itself, and that there should be no download source of it outside of 
apache. This seems to be one motivation for the asf having its own maven 
repository.


I seem to misunderstand something here, or why can there be apache maven 
artifacts in maven central and package in linux distributions for for 
example httpd, if this policy is followed? I mean it was even suggested 
to use the trademark to forbid the distribution through third parties. I 
am quite irritated about this.


bye blackdrag

--
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blog: http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/


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Re: Request to add username in Incubator Wiki

2015-08-03 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Atri Sharma atri.j...@gmail.com wrote:

 Requesting adding of username AtriSharma to Incubator wiki ContributorGroup.

Done.

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Re: Request to add username in Incubator Wiki

2015-08-03 Thread Atri Sharma
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com
wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Atri Sharma atri.j...@gmail.com wrote:

  Requesting adding of username AtriSharma to Incubator wiki
 ContributorGroup.

 Done.

 Marvin Humphrey


Thanks.


Request to add username in Incubator Wiki

2015-08-03 Thread Atri Sharma
Hi,

Requesting adding of username AtriSharma to Incubator wiki ContributorGroup.

-- 
Regards,

Atri
*l'apprenant*


Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote:
 ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
 PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...

How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
minimal interaction with the IPMC?

-Bertrand

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Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-03 Thread Alex Harui
OK, I’ll bite.  Do you have links to where you got this information?

-Alex

On 8/3/15, 2:55 AM, Jochen Theodorou blackd...@gmx.org wrote:

Hi all,

some of the general discussion recently made me wonder about one point
with regards to binary distributions. It was pointed out, that a binary
distribution of a source code release has to be handled like a release
itself, and that there should be no download source of it outside of
apache. This seems to be one motivation for the asf having its own maven
repository.

I seem to misunderstand something here, or why can there be apache maven
artifacts in maven central and package in linux distributions for for
example httpd, if this policy is followed? I mean it was even suggested
to use the trademark to forbid the distribution through third parties. I
am quite irritated about this.

bye blackdrag

-- 
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blog: http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/


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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, John D. Ament johndam...@apache.org wrote:
 I wonder how much of the silence is a notion of I don't want to be
 accountable if something goes wrong in this podling.

Right, but that same concern could be applied to every single TLP
and yet the board seems to do the right thing with that.

 Having the IPMC safety net means its at least the IPMC's fault if something
 goes wrong.

My point all along has been that this is a false sense of security. In fact,
in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC
feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings.

 Personally, I'd be happy if the PPMCs had more self governance.  But I
 think there are also some key people on the IPMC that should be able to
 lend their skills out to the broader PPMCs in case of need.

Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I were
discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of ASF.

Thanks,
Roman.

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RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Ross Gardler
 This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are accusing 
ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which is grossly 
unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very true at IPMC 
level today.

+1000

-Original Message-
From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman 
Shaposhnik
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the 
Apache Incubator)

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but it 
 seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of a week ago: 
 what would be the effective way to change the status quo around IPMC 
 an make it more board like?

 Perhaps we can start from making the release policy actually make 
 sense along the lines that Ross has outlined. I guess I can propose a 
 change to the current policies (or to Ross'
 point just get it back from the wayback machine :-)).

 But seriously, who else thinks the movement towards empowering PPMCs 
 and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?

 I think the thread fizzled because there's not a lot of support for 
 the idea. At least, on my end, I'm not in favor.

Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint) but and 
extremely fair observation.

As far as I'm concerned the issue of RRs of IPMC is in a state of a stalemate 
right now. We clearly have a everything's fine lets just add more policy 
constituency vs. IPMC should be small and more board like crowd.

The good news is that we're all united on making sure that the foundation is 
growing by podlings making progress and graduating to TLPs. The bad news is 
that because of the current mentality I don't see the types of unfortunate 
threads that Ignite just went through going away anytime soon.

This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are accusing 
ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which is grossly 
unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very true at IPMC 
level today.

It is clear to me that the change has very little chance of coming from within 
IPMC.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but
 it seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of
 a week ago: what would be the effective way to change the
 status quo around IPMC an make it more board like?

 Perhaps we can start from making the release policy actually
 make sense along the lines that Ross has outlined. I guess
 I can propose a change to the current policies (or to Ross'
 point just get it back from the wayback machine :-)).

 But seriously, who else thinks the movement towards empowering
 PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?

 I think the thread fizzled because there's not a lot of support for the
 idea. At least, on my end, I'm not in favor.

Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint)
but and extremely fair observation.

As far as I'm concerned the issue of RRs of IPMC is in a state of a
stalemate right now. We clearly have a everything's fine lets just
add more policy constituency vs. IPMC should be small and more
board like crowd.

The good news is that we're all united on making sure that the foundation
is growing by podlings making progress and graduating to TLPs. The
bad news is that because of the current mentality I don't see the types
of unfortunate threads that Ignite just went through going away anytime
soon.

This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are accusing
ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which is
grossly unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very
true at IPMC level today.

It is clear to me that the change has very little chance of coming from
within IPMC.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote:
 ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
 PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...

 How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
 mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
 minimal interaction with the IPMC?

I think it is more of a bias issue. IOW, today it seems that the default bias
of IPMC is to consider itself a final authority (or a gatekeeper) on podling
releases. We need to break that bias and make it so that it is truly a safety
net, rather than a gatekeeper.

IOW, I'd like the release traffic on general@ to ONLY consist of [NOTICE]
emails, not [VOTE].

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Arvind Prabhakar arv...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org
 wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 wrote:
  ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering
  PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?...

 How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active
 mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring
 minimal interaction with the IPMC?


 In spirit it may not be very different, but in practice it is the polar
 opposite. As someone who has worked through the incubation of a few
 projects both as an initial committer as well as a mentor, I feel that the
 biggest weakness of the current Incubator is it's very strength of being
 all inclusive of different interpretations/understandings of the goals of
 incubation. With every IPMC member having their own close-to-heart issues
 and inclinations, along with their good intentions, I don't think we are
 doing very much to help the podlings understand the principals of Apache
 Way or learn self-governance that works best for their communities.
 Instead, we often end up prescribing things which go beyond the charter of
 the Incubator, just to establish a sense of comfort in ensuring we have met
 our responsibilities.

It's not the central Incubator folks like our regular release
reviewers and report contributors who invent these extra criteria --
it's individual Mentors out on the podling lists.  Inaccuracy and
overreach on general@incubator is self-correcting, precisely because
this is where everyone comes together.  When inaccuracy and overreach
out on individual podling dev lists, whether that gets corrected
depends on whether the podling is fortunate enough to have a
well-rounded collection of active Mentors.

 Therefore, I too favor the idea of a smaller, well-defined, tactical IPMC
 that:
 a) establishes a clear objective criteria for growth and graduation
 including the necessary processes and policies,

The objective of establishing clear policy documentation is certainly
not going to be made any easier by atomizing the Incubator.  Instead,
Mentors who have strong opinions and strong personalities will
entrench provincial points of view in the podlings they oversee. When
we finally come together, it will be that much more painful to
establish consensus, whether that is to discuss policy on
general@incubator or legal-discuss@apache, or when the Board comes
into conflict with a TLP that received bad advice as a podling.

As someone who has worked hard building consensus for policy
documentation at Apache, and who has seen that hard work pay off when
Incubator threads which would have been contended several years ago
are now settled quickly, I certainly agree that documenting clear
objective criteria is valuable.  But nothing about the present makeup
of the Incubator gets in the way of pursuing that objective -- it's
the opposite.  Its because we resolve our differences in small amounts
here that we do not end up as irreconcilable factions later.

Marvin Humphrey

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RE: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 

-Original Message-
From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:mar...@rectangular.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 09:37
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the 
Apache Incubator)

[ ... ]

It's not the central Incubator folks like our regular release
reviewers and report contributors who invent these extra criteria --
it's individual Mentors out on the podling lists.  Inaccuracy and
overreach on general@incubator is self-correcting, precisely because
this is where everyone comes together.  When inaccuracy and overreach
out on individual podling dev lists, whether that gets corrected
depends on whether the podling is fortunate enough to have a
well-rounded collection of active Mentors.

[ ... ]

The objective of establishing clear policy documentation is certainly
not going to be made any easier by atomizing the Incubator.  Instead,
Mentors who have strong opinions and strong personalities will
entrench provincial points of view in the podlings they oversee. When
we finally come together, it will be that much more painful to
establish consensus, whether that is to discuss policy on
general@incubator or legal-discuss@apache, or when the Board comes
into conflict with a TLP that received bad advice as a podling.

As someone who has worked hard building consensus for policy
documentation at Apache, and who has seen that hard work pay off when
Incubator threads which would have been contended several years ago
are now settled quickly, I certainly agree that documenting clear
objective criteria is valuable.  But nothing about the present makeup
of the Incubator gets in the way of pursuing that objective -- it's
the opposite.  Its because we resolve our differences in small amounts
here that we do not end up as irreconcilable factions later.

Marvin Humphrey

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread Dhaval Gmail
Congratulations on achieving this milestone and good luck for many more to 
achieve in near future!

Best,
Dhaval

Sent from my iPhone, plaese excuse any typos :)

 On Aug 3, 2015, at 1:29 AM, Rajat Gupta rajat.iit...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 congrats guys
 
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Luke Han luke...@apache.org wrote:
 Congratulations!
 
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:43 AM, 김영우 warwit...@gmail.com wrote:
 Congratulations!
 
 On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM, moon soo Lee m...@apache.org wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of Zeppelin
  inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.
 
  Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
  analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
  support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.
 
  This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
  Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
  contributors.
 
 
  Release notes available at
 
  http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html
 
  Release artifacts available at
  http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating
 
  More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
  http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org
 
  The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for all
  their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not least,
  our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
  feedback.
 
 
  Thanks,
  The Apache Zeppelin team
 
 
  
  DISCLAIMER
 
  Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
  Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is required 
  of
  all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
  infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have 
  stabilized
  in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While 
  incubation
  status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of
  the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed 
  by
  the ASF.
 
 


Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread Jongyoul Lee
Good job!!

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Nihal Bhagchandani 
nihal_bhagchand...@yahoo.com wrote:

 that is a great news guys

 thumbs up to the whole team...

 Nihal



 On Saturday, 1 August 2015 11:42 AM, IT CTO goi@gmail.com wrote:


 Well done! Great team effort and great leadership by Moon.
 0.6 here we come!
 Eran

 בתאריך שבת, 1 באוג׳ 2015, 09:08 מאת moon soo Lee m...@apache.org:

 Hi,

 The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of Zeppelin
 inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.

 Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
 analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
 support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.

 This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
 Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
 contributors.


 Release notes available at

 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html

 Release artifacts available at
 http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating

 More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org

 The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for all
 their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not least,
 our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
 feedback.


 Thanks,
 The Apache Zeppelin team


 
 DISCLAIMER

 Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
 Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of
 all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
 infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized
 in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation
 status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of
 the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by
 the ASF.






-- 
이종열, Jongyoul Lee, 李宗烈
http://madeng.net


Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread IT CTO
Well done! Great team effort and great leadership by Moon.
0.6 here we come!
Eran

בתאריך שבת, 1 באוג׳ 2015, 09:08 מאת moon soo Lee m...@apache.org:

 Hi,

 The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of Zeppelin
 inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.

 Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
 analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
 support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.

 This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
 Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
 contributors.


 Release notes available at

 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html

 Release artifacts available at
 http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating

 More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org

 The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for all
 their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not least,
 our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
 feedback.


 Thanks,
 The Apache Zeppelin team


 
 DISCLAIMER

 Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
 Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of
 all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
 infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized
 in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation
 status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of
 the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by
 the ASF.



Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread Nihal Bhagchandani
that is a great news guys
thumbs up to the whole team...
Nihal


 On Saturday, 1 August 2015 11:42 AM, IT CTO goi@gmail.com wrote:
   

 Well done! Great team effort and great leadership by Moon.
0.6 here we come!
Eran
בתאריך שבת, 1 באוג׳ 2015, 09:08 מאת moon soo Lee m...@apache.org:

Hi,

The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of Zeppelin
inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.

Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.

This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
contributors.


Release notes available at
http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html

Release artifacts available at
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating

More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org

The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for all
their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not least,
our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
feedback.


Thanks,
The Apache Zeppelin team



DISCLAIMER

Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of
all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized
in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation
status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of
the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by
the ASF.



  

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread Rajat Gupta
congrats guys

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Luke Han luke...@apache.org wrote:

 Congratulations!

 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:43 AM, 김영우 warwit...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congratulations!

 On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM, moon soo Lee m...@apache.org wrote:

  Hi,
 
  The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of
 Zeppelin
  inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.
 
  Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
  analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
  support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.
 
  This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
  Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
  contributors.
 
 
  Release notes available at
 
 
 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html
 
  Release artifacts available at
 
 http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating
 
  More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
  http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org
 
  The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for
 all
  their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not
 least,
  our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
  feedback.
 
 
  Thanks,
  The Apache Zeppelin team
 
 
  
  DISCLAIMER
 
  Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache
 Software
  Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is
 required of
  all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
  infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have
 stabilized
  in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While
 incubation
  status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability
 of
  the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully
 endorsed by
  the ASF.
 





Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released

2015-08-03 Thread madhuka udantha
Congratulation!!
+1

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:38 AM, moon soo Lee m...@apache.org wrote:

 Hi,

 The Apache Zeppelin team is proud to annouce the first release of Zeppelin
 inside the Apache incubator: 0.5.0-incubating.

 Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data
 analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system
 support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.

 This release includes interpreter for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache
 Hive and Apache Tajo with many new features and improvements from 42
 contributors.


 Release notes available at

 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/releases/zeppelin-release-0.5.0-incubating.html

 Release artifacts available at
 http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating

 More details on Apache Zeppelin can be found at
 http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org

 The Apache Zeppelin team would like to thank the Apache community for all
 their contributions, the Apache Zeppelin mentors, and last but not least,
 our awesome user community for using, testing, and providing valuable
 feedback.


 Thanks,
 The Apache Zeppelin team


 
 DISCLAIMER

 Apache Zeppelin is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
 Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of
 all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
 infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized
 in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation
 status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of
 the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by
 the ASF.




-- 
Cheers,
Madhuka Udantha
http://madhukaudantha.blogspot.com


Incubator PMC/Board report for Aug 2015 ([ppmc])

2015-08-03 Thread Marvin


Dear podling,

This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache Incubator 
PMC.
It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare your quarterly
board report.

The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 19 August 2015, 10:30 am PST. The 
report 
for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC report. The Incubator 
PMC 
requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks before the board meeting, to allow 
sufficient time for review and submission (Wed, Aug 5th).

Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the incubator PMC, and 
subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the very latest you 
should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board meeting.

Thanks,

The Apache Incubator PMC

Submitting your Report
--

Your report should contain the following:

 * Your project name
 * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of the 
project
   or necessarily of its field
 * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards 
   graduation.
 * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of
 * How has the community developed since the last report
 * How has the project developed since the last report.
 
This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:

  http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2015

Note: This is manually populated. You may need to wait a little before this page
  is created from a template.

Mentors
---
Mentors should review reports for their project(s) and sign them off on the 
Incubator wiki page. Signing off reports shows that you are following the 
project - projects that are not signed may raise alarms for the Incubator PMC.

Incubator PMC


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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Daniel Gruno



On 2015-08-03 21:13, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:

Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint)
but and extremely fair observation.

As far as I'm concerned the issue of RRs of IPMC is in a state of a
stalemate right now. We clearly have a everything's fine lets just
add more policy constituency vs. IPMC should be small and more
board like crowd.



I don't think anyone is suggesting we add more policy - at least, I 
haven't heard anyone say that. I'd rather say we're caught between the 
policy is fine, but we may need to streamline the process and the 
policy is hindering development and needs to be trimmed.


I count myself among the 'followers' of the first statement. I think the 
policy itself is sound, but the process of incubation leaves something 
to be desired. In my view, if a release, graduation, vote etc is being 
held up by the IPMC, that is not the fault of the policy, it is the 
fault of tacit knowledge not being shared and used among mentors and 
podlings in an efficient manner. If a release is being held up due to 
missing/incorrect licenses or notices, that is an issue we should solve 
through better education and tooling in the Incubator. If a podling 
wants to graduate, but legitimate concerns (however true or unfounded 
they may be) are raised, that is an issue we should solve - or at least 
make speedier - through better education and tooling/processes.


I see a lot of places where we can definitely improve on processes, make 
them faster and easier, but what I do not see is how the policies are to 
blame. The very fact that these policies cause discussions and delays 
are, in my view, not a nuisance that needs to be abolished, but proof 
that we have procedural and educational flaws. Again, I would be very 
interested in working with people on improving these processes and tools.


I would also ask the people who think we need to trim down our policies 
to be more specific about which policies need to be removed or changed, 
and how it would help the Incubator while still retaining the core 
mission of it; To educate and grow communities wishing to follow the 
Apache Way.


With regards,
Daniel.

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Andrew Purtell

​
In fact, in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC
​ ​
feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings.

I've been through incubation as a mentor on Phoenix, Nifi, and now getting
up to speed on Trafodion, I have not seen micromanagement of podlings.
Could you point out an example? Curious what you mean.


On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
wrote:

 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, John D. Ament johndam...@apache.org
 wrote:
  I wonder how much of the silence is a notion of I don't want to be
  accountable if something goes wrong in this podling.

 Right, but that same concern could be applied to every single TLP
 and yet the board seems to do the right thing with that.

  Having the IPMC safety net means its at least the IPMC's fault if
 something
  goes wrong.

 My point all along has been that this is a false sense of security.
 ​​
 In fact,
 in my opinion it leads to the very unfortunate side effect of IPMC
 feeling in need to justify why it exists by micromanaging podlings.

  Personally, I'd be happy if the PPMCs had more self governance.  But I
  think there are also some key people on the IPMC that should be able to
  lend their skills out to the broader PPMCs in case of need.

 Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I were
 discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of
 ASF.

 Thanks,
 Roman.

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   - Andy

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(via Tom White)


Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-03 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Jochen Theodorou blackd...@gmx.org wrote:
 Hi all,

 some of the general discussion recently made me wonder about one point with
 regards to binary distributions. It was pointed out, that a binary
 distribution of a source code release has to be handled like a release
 itself, and that there should be no download source of it outside of apache.
 This seems to be one motivation for the asf having its own maven repository.

 I seem to misunderstand something here, or why can there be apache maven
 artifacts in maven central and package in linux distributions for for
 example httpd, if this policy is followed? I mean it was even suggested to
 use the trademark to forbid the distribution through third parties. I am
 quite irritated about this.

 bye blackdrag


I am not aware of any policy that dictates that (but would love to see links.)
I am aware that releases MUST at least be distributed via
dist.apache.org [1], but that isn't exclusive, meaning the PMC is
welcome to distribute _released software_ via other means (PyPy, NPM,
Maven, Docker Registry, CPAN, Bintray, carrier pigeon, etc).

--David
[1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#where-do-releases-go

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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Branko Čibej
On 03.08.2015 18:36, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
 It's not the central Incubator folks like our regular release
 reviewers and report contributors who invent these extra criteria

Sorry but this has to be said: I see folks on this list inventing policy
(or rather, confusing opinion and policy) all the time. The Ignite
graduation discussion was a good example of that, but by no means unique.

It's this micromanagement self-preservation reflex (thanks, Roman!) that
puts me squarely on the side of a smaller IPMC that would hopefully also
be less of a peanut gallery. No offence meant and especially not to the
people who do put in a stellar performance hereabouts.

-- Brane


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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Julian Hyde
In my experience incubating Calcite, the “overhead” was mostly the 
infrastructure and process, not politics. (If you think the incubator is 
political, you haven’t seen politics…) The process is necessary (mostly) to 
ensure clean IP. The infrastructure, less so. So, if we’re talking about how to 
reduce the burden on podlings, those are the areas I would focus on.

Roman’s proposed reform places more responsibility on podling PMCs and, by 
implication, the mentors embedded in those PMCs. I am not sure how well that 
would work in practice given the ongoing problem of absentee mentors. The IPMC 
epitomizes the “it takes a village to raise a child”, in particular with 
village elders stepping in with help/advice from time to time. It would be a 
shame to lose that.

Julian

 
 On Aug 3, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Ross Gardler ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote:
 
  This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are 
 accusing ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which 
 is grossly unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very true 
 at IPMC level today.
 
 +1000
 
 -Original Message-
 From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman 
 Shaposhnik
 Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the 
 Apache Incubator)
 
 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but it 
 seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of a week ago: 
 what would be the effective way to change the status quo around IPMC 
 an make it more board like?
 
 Perhaps we can start from making the release policy actually make 
 sense along the lines that Ross has outlined. I guess I can propose a 
 change to the current policies (or to Ross'
 point just get it back from the wayback machine :-)).
 
 But seriously, who else thinks the movement towards empowering PPMCs 
 and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?
 
 I think the thread fizzled because there's not a lot of support for 
 the idea. At least, on my end, I'm not in favor.
 
 Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint) but 
 and extremely fair observation.
 
 As far as I'm concerned the issue of RRs of IPMC is in a state of a 
 stalemate right now. We clearly have a everything's fine lets just add more 
 policy constituency vs. IPMC should be small and more board like crowd.
 
 The good news is that we're all united on making sure that the foundation is 
 growing by podlings making progress and graduating to TLPs. The bad news is 
 that because of the current mentality I don't see the types of unfortunate 
 threads that Ignite just went through going away anytime soon.
 
 This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are accusing 
 ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which is 
 grossly unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very true at 
 IPMC level today.
 
 It is clear to me that the change has very little chance of coming from 
 within IPMC.
 
 Thanks,
 Roman.
 
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Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator)

2015-08-03 Thread Branko Čibej
On 03.08.2015 21:51, Julian Hyde wrote:
 In my experience incubating Calcite, the “overhead” was mostly the 
 infrastructure and process, not politics. (If you think the incubator is 
 political, you haven’t seen politics…) The process is necessary (mostly) to 
 ensure clean IP. The infrastructure, less so. So, if we’re talking about how 
 to reduce the burden on podlings, those are the areas I would focus on.

 Roman’s proposed reform places more responsibility on podling PMCs and, by 
 implication, the mentors embedded in those PMCs.

At the end of the day, it *is* the mentors' responsibility. The IPMC
mostly gets involved after the fact.

 I am not sure how well that would work in practice given the ongoing problem 
 of absentee mentors. The IPMC epitomizes the “it takes a village to raise a 
 child”, in particular with village elders stepping in with help/advice from 
 time to time. It would be a shame to lose that.

There's no need to lose that. But it would be a really good idea to lose
the village spinster who makes the child afraid of the dark and monsters
under the bed ...

-- Brane


 On Aug 3, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Ross Gardler ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote:

  This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are 
 accusing ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which 
 is grossly unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very 
 true at IPMC level today.

 +1000

 -Original Message-
 From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman 
 Shaposhnik
 Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 12:13 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the 
 Apache Incubator)

 On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 2, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 I've been waiting for a bout a week for other to chime in, but it 
 seems that nobody has so I'll repeat my question as of a week ago: 
 what would be the effective way to change the status quo around IPMC 
 an make it more board like?

 Perhaps we can start from making the release policy actually make 
 sense along the lines that Ross has outlined. I guess I can propose a 
 change to the current policies (or to Ross'
 point just get it back from the wayback machine :-)).

 But seriously, who else thinks the movement towards empowering PPMCs 
 and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?
 I think the thread fizzled because there's not a lot of support for 
 the idea. At least, on my end, I'm not in favor.
 Yup. I believe this to be an unfortunate (at least from my standpoint) but 
 and extremely fair observation.

 As far as I'm concerned the issue of RRs of IPMC is in a state of a 
 stalemate right now. We clearly have a everything's fine lets just add more 
 policy constituency vs. IPMC should be small and more board like crowd.

 The good news is that we're all united on making sure that the foundation is 
 growing by podlings making progress and graduating to TLPs. The bad news is 
 that because of the current mentality I don't see the types of unfortunate 
 threads that Ignite just went through going away anytime soon.

 This is that proverbial political overhead that a lot of folks are 
 accusing ASF of and cite as a reason of not going into the foundation. Which 
 is grossly unfair at the board level, but unfortunately seems to be very 
 true at IPMC level today.

 It is clear to me that the change has very little chance of coming from 
 within IPMC.

 Thanks,
 Roman.

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