Re: CLA for nacho@apache.org

2002-11-28 Thread Peter Donald
what? It's a must (or should be a must) for all committers. -- Cheers, Peter Donald militant agnostic: i don't know, and you don't know either.

Re: request: terms/definitions for the glossary

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Donald
willing to help with this issue by proposing an alternative AND helping with the alternative -- Cheers, Peter Donald Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. - Fred Brooks, Jr.

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58, Daniel Rall wrote: > Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter Donald wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Firstly rename bugtrack to issuetracker as many projects use the > > > issue tracker to store enhancement request

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-05 Thread Peter Donald
f the good ones (ie Jira) are heavily linked into issuetracking and/or vcs. -- Cheers, Peter Donald --- Murphy's law - "Anything that can go wrong, will." (Actually, this is Finagle's law, which in itself shows that Finagle was right.) ---

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:18, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > On a related note, can someone report how many subscribers are currently > on the community list? 134 -- Cheers, Peter Donald 'Most men would rather die than think. Many do.' Bertrand Russell

Re: [VOTE] Openness

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:19, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > VOTE 1: would you like to make it possible for non-committers to read > this mail list thru a web archive? > > [ ] +1 yes, let's make it readable > [ ] 0 don't know/don't care > [+1] -1 no, let's keep it private > > VOTE 2: would you li

Re: ASF Membership Nomination

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Donald
going out of band, so almost everyone gets to feel equal in > their exclusion. Thats pretty much how it happens in projects I am involved in (which are at Jakarta). -- Cheers, Peter Donald --- To fight and conquer in all your battles is no

Re: Welcome to Apache Letter

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Donald
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:48, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Peter Donald wrote: > > Committers have no rights, just privlidges. > > What about the right to place a binding vote and propose somebody for > commit access? aren't they rights? Anyone can propose somebody for commit

Re: ASF Membership Nomination

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Donald
against it. But, in any other > case, a private votation will serve the person nominated best. > > At least, that has been my experience. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *--* The phrase "computer literate user" really means the person

Re: [VOTE] Open this list

2002-10-27 Thread Peter Donald
t reservations they have for certain actions. -- Cheers, Peter Donald -- The fact that nobody understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. --

Re: Welcome to Apache Letter

2002-10-27 Thread Peter Donald
nd informed opinion and contribute a binding vote (+1 > or -1) without implication of a willingness to "help". yep and the vote is called invalid. -- Cheers, Peter Donald ** | The student who is never required to do what | | he cannot do never does what he can do. | | - John Stuart Mill | **

Re: [VOTE] Open this list

2002-10-27 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 13:28, David Crossley wrote: > On a related issue, i am having trouble finding any docs > about voting procedures for the Apache community. Goto http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html and then lookup the "Decision Process" link -- Cheers, Peter Don

Re: [VOTE] Open this list

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Donald
e to read or view the archive (and include an archive > such as MARC, etc. > View 3: Close the list to all except members and committers. +1 Why do non-committers care about how Apache is evolving? And if they care so much why aren't they committers? -- Cheers, Peter Donald --

Re: Man, it's quiet here

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Donald
; > I would like to think that the people who started this discussion have assesed the situation and begun to take action. Apache is not built on talkers but on doers. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *--* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity,

Fwd: Re: Incubator, Jakarta, and new projects

2002-10-24 Thread Peter Donald
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Incubator, Jakarta, and new projects Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:53:25 +1000 From: Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:41, Ted Husted wrote: > More than anything, we need a way that > will enable the people

Re: infrastructure and reorg

2002-10-22 Thread Peter Donald
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:31, you wrote: > Peter Donald wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:00, Steven Noels wrote: > >>Does anyone want to comment on this? > > > > I love it when someone takes the initiative! > > Urgh...? > > Was this meant cynical? nope