Re: [Proposal] ASF Fediverse/ActivityPub instance

2022-12-08 Thread Greg Stein
On 2022/12/08 20:30:02 Christian Grobmeier wrote: >... > Bu t I mentioned, I get your point. Would you be less concerned with a domain > like asf.social, since this is not an official domain? Assuming asf.social > would be only for ASF community, but also allow "offical" accounts like > press@as

RE: Re: [DISCUSS] ASF Mastodon instance?

2022-11-07 Thread Greg Stein
On 2022/11/07 14:32:29 Peter Hunsberger wrote: >... > It could give provenance to a set of social media handles for legitimate > Apache Foundation members, validating representation and preventing > imposters. Not sure how much that's needed but I have seen some discussion > on these lists about t

Re: Comdev web pages for our communities of interests?

2021-05-10 Thread Greg Stein
ot lead to an obvious owner. Also please note that a mailing list named healthc...@apache.org was requested. Infra has deleted that request. Please keep requests within the @community space. Cheers, Greg Stein Infrastructure Administrator, ASF --

Fwd: GSoC Announcement: Announcing Google Summer of Code 2021

2020-10-28 Thread Greg Stein
FYI -- Forwarded message - From: 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Announce < google-summer-of-code-annou...@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:51 PM Subject: GSoC Announcement: Announcing Google Summer of Code 2021 To: Google Summer of Code Announce < google-summer

Re: who "owns" https://projects.apache.org/ ?

2020-03-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:54 AM Rich Bowen wrote: >... > One of the things on my Apache To Do list, which starts at the > expiration of my board term (Next week!) is to "visit" each of our > projects and update a list of things, which includes: > > * Ensure that https://whimsy.apache.org/site/ is

Re: Reporter Tool and Releases

2019-12-29 Thread Greg Stein
; > thx for the work on the tool -- I assume it is you. > > Claude > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:55 PM Greg Stein wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:52:09AM -0800, Dave Fisher wrote: > > > Several projects did not report their recent releases in the last

Re: Reporter Tool and Releases

2019-12-28 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:52:09AM -0800, Dave Fisher wrote: > Several projects did not report their recent releases in the last > Board cycle. It would be good if the reporter tool would make it > easier to provide the information. When I was young, we'd write reports by-hand, while walking throu

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setting up an official ASF swag store

2018-03-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:04 PM, David Nalley wrote: > >> >> The folks with high quality stuff have historically (~10 years ago) >> required huge minimum orders. >> > > Not so much any more. I have gotten very nice stickers from Sticke

Re: Apache Policy Quiz

2018-01-24 Thread Greg Stein
Every single question that I answered gave me a "not quite right". Even when it asked if an Apache product can be distributed under Cat-X and I said "No", it said "not quite right". That was a simple yes/no, and an obvious "no" answer. ... That was the final straw after a series of multiple-choice

Re: IMPORTANT: Re: Forwarded: GitHub vs. FreeYourGadget Full Story

2017-07-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Sorry for my vagueness but this is important and you went left while i > went right on the topic. > Your most appropriate venue is legal-discuss@, and just that one list. -g

Re: IMPORTANT: Re: Forwarded: GitHub vs. FreeYourGadget Full Story

2017-07-13 Thread Greg Stein
incredibly wide range of your To: header and minimize the subject line shouting, if there is something specific needed. It is also unwise to cross-post across private and public lists. Regards, Greg Stein Infrastructure Administrator, ASF On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Th

Introducing code owners

2017-07-07 Thread Greg Stein
Ugh. I suggest that ComDev write up some text explaining why this is a horrible idea :-( https://github.com/blog/2392-introducing-code-owners

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-24 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jacques Le Roux > > wrote: > >> Who will update the https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html > page?* > > > > I've done that, it no

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-03-17 Thread Greg Stein
gt; I'll be going to sleep now and will check again in a few hours. > > Worst case we go without you. Kindly advise. > > Thanks, > Sally > > [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and > brevity] > > - Reply message - > From

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-03-14 Thread Greg Stein
x27;t want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup. > > Thanks so much, > > Sally > > > From: Greg Stein > To: Sally Khudairi > Cc: Ulrich Stärk ; "pr...@apache.org" ; > "dev@community.apache.org" > Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22 &

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-03-13 Thread Greg Stein
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC. As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi wrote: > What? > > Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10

plz take community@apache

2014-09-09 Thread Greg Stein
Heya peeps... could community.a.o please do something about the deprecated community@apache mailing list? I would suggest it becomes an alias for dev@community (and its archive just moves into stasis). (I haven't filed Infra tickets to fix, since it should be decided by y'all first...)

Re: Non-released Dependencies

2014-07-28 Thread Greg Stein
m to fork the code you want and release that. Then you can > depend on the non-ASF fork of the ASF project... again a rude option, but > perhaps less so than #1 > > I vote you go for #2. It plays best with community which is what we are > here to foster > > > On 25 July 2

Re: Non-released Dependencies

2014-07-25 Thread Greg Stein
[adding dev@community, as I believe this should go there...] On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: >... > Hi, > > there's an undergoing debate in the XML Graphics project about doing > a release that has a dependency on a snapshot version of another > (Apache, for that matter

Re: Video recording at ApacheCon EU

2012-10-29 Thread Greg Stein
The budget may be available, but are the videos actually worth that value? "Just because we have budget, doesn't mean we have to spend it." Geez. 15k euros is a LOT of money. Opportunity cost... some new hardware? Maybe another part-time infra admin? The question of "can we get these recorded?"

Re: GSoC & Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 16:55, Benson Margulies wrote: >... >> Personally I feel that GSoC students should earn commit access just >> like anyone else. > > I have a lot of sympathy for Greg's position. Treating 'committer' as > a single monolithic category drives people away. Right. It is necessa

Re: GSoC & Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:24, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: >> It looks like various Apache projects are voting GSoC students as >> "partial committers". As Apache does not have a formal process for >> handling this type of account r

Clarification in PMC changes

2011-06-27 Thread Greg Stein
Hey all, With some recent emails, it became clear that we may not be giving people the right background to PMC nominations/additions. The current text is here: http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newpmc There is a fundamental, conceptual change needed in that paragraph. The short answer is that

Board process

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Stein
Hi ComDev! A couple days ago, I wrote a message to somebody describing some of the process that the Board uses for its meetings. I thought this may be a helpful start for you guys to write about "How the Board Works". I've snipped/summarized commentary from the other person, but left in my text i