Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Steven Noels
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: I haven't read through your material, but unless I am wrong about what I wrote last night, an ASF Officer also qualifies. that seems eminently reasonable. Ah. The crack in the Matrix widens. So I would have been able to shepherd XMLBeans thr

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Steven Noels
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As I understand what is being said, a project is to have a sponsor who is an ASF Member or Officer. Note that the Incubator PMC Chair is an ASF Officer, as is every PMC Chair. ... but not every PMC chair is a member (i.e. myself). Things can get quite funny, that way. It s

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Steven Noels
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Steven Noels wrote: I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by design, it wasn't very obvious from

RE: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Henri Yandell wrote: > Steven Noels wrote: > > I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be > > members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working > > with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by > > design, it wasn't very obvious

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-20 Thread Phil Steitz
I have been following this thread with interest and have found the discussion very informative. Thanks to all who have provided insight for those of us with less knowledge and experience with the Apache way. I have been a bit surprised by the lack of discussion about the merits of the proposal

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:25:53 -0400 Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > > > > "Meritocracy"? > yes, meritocracy. the entire asf is a meritocracy, as is each > project within it. I see. but here's one question. Does this "meritocracy" encourage the inact

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:49:24 -0400 (Subject: RE: ASF member role - accountable to whom) "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Meritocracy"? > > Here is a good stats on this ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mailing list. > Excuse me, but volume of messages has nothing to do with merit. Statist

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henri Yandell wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Steven Noels wrote: I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by design, it wasn't ver

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Steven Noels wrote: > I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be > members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working > with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by > design, it wasn't very obvious from th

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > > "Meritocracy"? yes, meritocracy. the entire asf is a meritocracy, as is each project within it. > Here is a good stats on this ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mailing list. : > Hope this helps :-) not really, at least not for me, since i don't know what point you're

RE: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> "Meritocracy"? > Here is a good stats on this ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mailing list. Excuse me, but volume of messages has nothing to do with merit. Roy T. Fielding posts very infrequently in my experience, but each of his messages is worth reading. He has a way of cutting through reams of BS w

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:16:38 -0400 Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because they haven't yet *demonstrated* enough merit/understanding to > be nominated for membership. or perhaps they've been nominated but > declined to accept, which i think also means they don't believe enou

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Stephen McConnell wrote: > > It would be really helpful if this page were included in the Home menu > on the Incuabator web site. Also helpful would be the inclusion of the > first link (roles and responsibilities) on the page concerning the > incubation process. the wiki pages are not author

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, I haven't read through your material, but unless I am wrong about what I wrote last night, an ASF Officer also qualifies. Berin Lautenbach suggested gathering and collating material from this discussion on the Wiki. Some related pages are: http://nagoya.apache.o

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I haven't read through your material, but unless I am wrong about what I > wrote last night, an ASF Officer also qualifies. that seems eminently reasonable. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist ht

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Stephen McConnell wrote: > > Are there any Sponsor reponsibilities that I am missing here? i think that participation in the incubator pmc, particularly during these formative times, would be very valuable. it would keep the sponsor informed of the developing policies and procedures, and conver

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Steven Noels wrote: > > I just want to say that this requirement of sponsors which should be > members was totally unclear to me when I started talking and working > with the BEA peeps (Cliff Schmidt). So even if this was meant to be by > design, it wasn't very obvious from the information avai

RE: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stephen, I haven't read through your material, but unless I am wrong about what I wrote last night, an ASF Officer also qualifies. Berin Lautenbach suggested gathering and collating material from this discussion on the Wiki. Some related pages are: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: For example, if a Member undertakes such a resonsibility, to whom is the member responsible and what would be the scope of such a responsibility? to the podling and the incubator pmc, to see that everything gets done and done properly. similarly to the found

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-20 Thread Steven Noels
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Should we make a poll so that we can see what others think? Yawn. Listen dudes: things were pretty busy when the Lenya/Xopus issue happened - so thanks Nicola, as a member of the Cocoon PMC, for stepping forward. Before Nicola however appeared on the Lenya list with his

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Steven Noels
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: I am specific asking this in the context of the incubator policies. If I understand correctly, the policies require project sponsorship by a member and from what member only sheparding. While parhaps with best intent - it is excluding non-

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Stephen McConnell wrote: > > The words "the sponsor should take responsibility" is something I agree > with and is the first tangible link to a rationale between sponsor and > Member that I have seen so far. then i think we have been having a significant disconnect. i think the link has been v

Re: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: What is the Incubator's purpose? What I am told from multiple sources (I have asked about this out of interest), is that the Incubator is to be used whenever a substantial codebase (a sub-project) is brought in from outside the ASF, regardless of whether it is going to be

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-20 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 02:54 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: Without a clear sense of responsibility, the end result are that podlings are essentially left on their own and "every" Incubator member thinks someone else is doing the oversight. :/ I think Jim makes a good point. -- Ceki Gülcü For log4j do

Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project

2003-09-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 07:56 AM, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: ... I don't doubt it, and the proof ought to be in the ones that have already done so. I do ask if the PMC doing anything to help encourage other projects to matriculate? Last time I proposed that the Jak

RE: ASF member role - accountable to whom

2003-09-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stephen, The following is synthesized from numerous conversations, messages, etc. It represents my understanding. Hopefully, if I have gotten any aspects wrong, someone will correct it (and me). Please put this in context. There have been questions as to what criteria should exist for incubati