Planning to remove rosters from active podlings

2017-09-25 Thread John D. Ament
All, This coming weekend (9/29) I plan to remove the roster sections from all podling status pages. Podling rosters are meant to be managed in Whimsy. The roster in the status page is redundant and end up out of sync. In place of the roster, I will be adding a link automatically to all podling

[REMINDER] Policies around Publicity & Press

2017-07-31 Thread John D. Ament
h any concerns. Regards, John D. Ament VP, Apache Incubator

Dist Area permissions problem

2017-07-17 Thread John D. Ament
All, Please be advised that the infra team is aware of a permission problem that is affecting podlings ability to write to the incubator dist area. This may cause you to be unable to create staged releases and promote those to the public mirrors. You can track the status in https://issues.apache

[DRAFT] What the new Status Pages potentially look like

2017-06-12 Thread John D. Ament
All, We're piloting a new format for the podling status pages. Specifically, the current status page leaves a lot to be desired - it's basically crafted html, there's no structure and its hard to find missing items. The end goal is to have a web form editable in Whimsy, but until we get more inp

[NOTICE] Managing Podling Rosters

2017-05-30 Thread John D. Ament
Podlings, I wanted to raise a point to all, hence the direct emails. The Whimsy PMC has put together a roster tool for managing the committers in a podling. Rather than managing the committer list in your status file, this will keep track and make sure we list out everyone's valid IDs. If you h

[DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - May 2017

2017-05-07 Thread John D. Ament
e out that rosters should be maintained in Whimsy going forward. A formal announcement should happen by ApacheCon. * Credits - Report Manager: John D. Ament -- Table of Contents BatchEE Blur Distributed

Re: Website Branding Issues

2016-07-09 Thread John D. Ament
Ping. When can this be expected to be resolved? On 2016-07-01 17:55 (-0400), johndam...@apache.org wrote: > Dear podling, > > During a recent audit of podling websites, your podling was identified as not > including the incubating disclaimer. This disclaimer is required on all > podling webs

Re: Board report

2016-03-09 Thread John D. Ament
quot; answers. > > Apologies for messing with the template :) > > Hen > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:15 PM, John D. Ament > wrote: > >> Dear Joshua Podling, >> >> In reviewing the board report, I noticed that most of the sections of your >> report were r

Board report

2016-03-09 Thread John D. Ament
Dear Joshua Podling, In reviewing the board report, I noticed that most of the sections of your report were removed. Those serve as a template and it is expected that you retain them in your report. John