Re: [DISCUSS] When to add Apache Headers to Third Party Code [WAS] Re: [MENTORS] PPMC case-by-case decision for major modifications of third-party work guidance

2020-06-15 Thread John D. Ament
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:19 PM Bob Paulin wrote: > Hi, > > I agree there does not appear to be consensus on when it's appropriate to > add Apache License Headers to Third Party code across projects. Here is > Justin's email that request the Apache Headers removed [1] > > > > - file copyright

Re: Podling Report Reminder - April 2018

2018-04-09 Thread John D . Ament
e write access to incubator wiki, please post the > report. > > Regards, > Stefffen > > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:43 PM John D. Ament wrote: > > > You need to get this report posted on the incubator wiki. > > > > Some questions about the report. >

[DRAFT] Incubator PMC Board Report - April 2018

2018-04-08 Thread John D. Ament
[ ] Working towards first release [ ] Community building [ ] Nearing graduation [ ] Other: Date of last release: N/A When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? N/A Signed-off-by: [ ](dubbo) Justin Mclean Comments: [X](dubbo) John D. Ament Comments: Podling is moving

Re: Podling Report Reminder - April 2018

2018-04-08 Thread John D . Ament
t; > > Steffen > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 7:23 AM John D. Ament > > wrote: > > > >> Just to point out - the report was due on 4/4. You'll need to get the > >> report in very early to ensure your mentors can review. > &

Re: Podling Report Reminder - April 2018

2018-04-08 Thread John D . Ament
Just to point out - the report was due on 4/4. You'll need to get the report in very early to ensure your mentors can review. On 2018/04/08 01:45:46, Steffen Rochel wrote: > Hi John - we will get a report out tomorrow (Sunday PDT). > Steffen > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:19

Re: Podling Report Reminder - April 2018

2018-04-07 Thread John D . Ament
Is anyone available to write the report? Need some kind of response from the podling... On 2018/04/03 02:43:12, Hen wrote: > Board report time. Any committer available to write something? > > Reminder of the template: > > MXNetA Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep LearningMXNet has been

MXNet External Sources (was Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.0.0 release RC1)

2017-12-01 Thread John D. Ament
One question about the below. We've noted that much of the source code for MXNet is coming from the external DMLC repos. Are there plans to move those repos into the ASF? John On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:13 PM Hen wrote: > +1. > > Items I note should happen post release are: > > * Move the vario

Re: Podling Report - Draft

2017-10-07 Thread John D. Ament
ver > > added, which was confirmed by checking via Whimsy. > > > > > On Oct 6, 2017, at 7:40 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2017-10-06 00:30, Henri Yandell wrote: > > >> Done. Markus + Jim left :) > > >

Re: Podling Report - Draft

2017-10-06 Thread John D. Ament
l use Confluence for the next > > > report. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:11 PM, John D. Ament > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Its great to see community working on a report. don't forget to post > > it > > > &g

Re: PROCESS: Contacting the Apache Infra team

2017-10-06 Thread John D. Ament
Bhavin, You may want to review http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact#request-checklist . This section specifically, but the entire page may be of use. John On 2017-10-06 12:35, Bhavin Thaker wrote: > Hi All, > > > Instead of this email getting lost in the hundreds of emails on dev@, > s

Migration of Apache MXNet from Private Slack area to ASF Slack

2017-10-05 Thread John D. Ament
Dear Apache MXNet Podling, I would like to request that you migrate off of your external Slack instance and into the common one used, hosted as the-ask.slack.com. By default sign up is restricted to @apache.org email addressed, but I would be happy to facilitate giving more people access to it.

Re: Podling Report - Draft

2017-10-03 Thread John D. Ament
Its great to see community working on a report. don't forget to post it to the wiki. In addition, I would like to see you move the creation of it into ASF infrastructure. Many projects use Confluence to write it, others use private SVN repos. On 2017-10-03 18:01, Chris Olivier wrote: > Are

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

Re: Source Headers [Was: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3]

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:15 PM Henri Yandell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:38 PM, John D. Ament > wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:30 PM John D. Ament > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:27 PM Henri Yandell > wrote: > >

Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:30 PM John D. Ament wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:27 PM Henri Yandell wrote: > >> Reverted to "Copyright Contributors"? >> >> > Yes, for any file that we don't have full agreement (ICLA on file) we > can't r

Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
y "Licensed to the ASF" (it's in the ICLA). It's not a big deal, since its Apache licensed, we just have to be careful we're removing someone's pre-existing claim. > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 18:15 John D. Ament wrote: > > > Ok, so here's my +1 to re

Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
; > > > Regards, > > > > Craig > > > > > On Aug 29, 2017, at 9:43 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > > Apologies - I missed that mentors hadn't voted on the podling release. > > Will > > > review tonight; hopefully their mento

Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
that mentors hadn't voted on the podling release. > Will > > review tonight; hopefully their mentors can do similar. > > > > There's no reason for an SGA here (and who would even sign it?). Code has > > been apache 2.0 since the initial commit on GitHub. > > &

Re: [VOTE] Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 release RC3

2017-08-29 Thread John D. Ament
enri, Suneel, Marcus, Sebastian, can you gents please review and vote? > > Also, Henri, didn't you mention that there was an SGA for this project? > Sorry if I don't recollect the exact details on the SGA bit. > > Dom > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:27 AM, John D.

Re: Two more additions to Jenkins

2017-08-18 Thread John D. Ament
Done! On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:44 AM Henri Yandell wrote: > Hi Incubator folk with Chair permissions, > > Could someone add cjolivier01 (Chris) and skm (Sandeep) to Jenkins for > MXNet please? > > Thanks, > > Hen >

Re: Code contribution to Apache MXNet with a BSD 3 clause

2017-08-03 Thread John D. Ament
We're not OK with you just dumping it into your repos yet. > >> Dom >> >> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM, John D. Ament >> wrote: >> >>> Ideally they would provide the contribution under the Apache License, v2. >>> Are they maintaining these

Re: Code contribution to Apache MXNet with a BSD 3 clause

2017-08-03 Thread John D. Ament
will make any changes. > > Sounds like we are ok either way. So thanks! > We're OK to start an IP Clearance. We're not OK with you just dumping it into your repos yet. > > Dom > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM, John D. Ament > wrote: > >> Ideally

Re: Code contribution to Apache MXNet with a BSD 3 clause

2017-08-03 Thread John D. Ament
Ideally they would provide the contribution under the Apache License, v2. Are they maintaining these files going forward, or are they ending up in the Apache MXNet repository? Would they be agreeable to providing an ICLA or an SGA? Either way, this falls under the Incubator's IP Clearance policy.

[REMINDER] Policies around Publicity & Press

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

Re: Two additions to Jenkins

2017-07-18 Thread John D. Ament
Both have been added. On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:44 AM Henri Yandell wrote: > Hi PMC-Chair type folk on general@incubator. > > Could someone add Naveen Swamy (nswamy@) and Mu Li (muli@) to the Jenkins > ldap group please. > > Thank you, > > Hen >

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

Re: ZeroMQ licensing in Apache MXNet

2017-07-06 Thread John D. Ament
Mu, So what happens when ZeroMQ is not available, do you fall back to something else? I'm inclined to say that this is allowable, knowing that its an optional dynamically linked dependency that has an alternative. Assuming it has an alternative. I would strongly encourage podlings to try to lev

Re: ZeroMQ licensing in Apache MXNet

2017-07-06 Thread John D. Ament
Hen, Can you give some more info about how MXnet uses ZeroMQ? Is it an optional dependency or required? Are you actually bundling ZeroMQ in your release (source or binary)? John On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:23 AM Henri Yandell wrote: > One of the items that is on the list to do before releasing

[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 - April 2017

2017-04-09 Thread John D. Ament
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? - Initial committers only. Signed-off-by: [ ](juneau) Craig Russell Comments: [ ](juneau) Jochen Wiedmann Comments: [X](juneau) John D. Ament Comments: The podling's struggling a bit with community growth. Th

Re: Welcome to the MXNet Dev list

2017-01-30 Thread John D. Ament
All, I'm wondering, does MXNet plan to report this month? Or should we expect the first report with March's timeline? John On 2017-01-26 17:46 (-0500), Henri Yandell wrote: > Hi MXNet Community :) > > There are 40-odd emails subscribed now, so looks like the list is ready to > be used in ang