RE: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I hope that the policies, procedures, responsibilities, and ultimate accountabilities, will have a tangible and net- positive impact on the overall development of the Apache Community. :-) --- Noel - To unsubscribe,

Re: Kannel discussion invitation

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stipe Tolj wrote: no good, alas; i'll be on the road driving to another town at that point. i *should* be back within a couple of hours, though. :-/ Ken, please find the #kannel IRC channel log of the debate at http://www.kannel.org/irc-sessions/ from last friday and today. People have

Re: Getting the distribution onto a download site somewhere ...

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Cliff Schmidt wrote: snipped-release-plan/ this sounds to me like a very good plan. thank you! +1 :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)

Re: roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ted Leung wrote: On 9/22/2003 4:50 PM, Berin Lautenbach wrote: From: Rodent of Unusual Size what's the role of the incubator pmc in this? at the least, it's a set of passionate asf people who are essentially in agreement about what makes something a genuine 'apache'-style project, who review

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ted Leung wrote: I don't know if we want to tackle this at the same time as Steven's document on entering the incubator, but at the moment Im more focused on how to get podlings out of the incubator rather than getting them in. A while ago I proposed some exit criteria for XML beans -- I

Re: technology sucks

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Roy, Please note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is suffering the same disease. I said this before at that mailing list. Noone responded. It (nonfeasance) really humiliated me. I'm the moderator there, and I didn't see your mail. I apologise for missing it, it was not

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
From: Stephen McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that Berin and I are aiming at the same objective and have very similar motives. I happen to think that we can leverage and utilize the contribution of Berin's process by analysing his concers and underlying interests and drawing from

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Stephen McConnell wrote: Thus you have the shepherd appointed by the sponsor PMC, but being bound by the Incubator PMC rules and regs. (And I would imagine the incubator would need to agree the choice.) Which does not work in practice (with respect to current policy). The Icubator PMC has been

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Engagement by the XMLbeans community with the XML PMC and other ASF sub communities, particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal bias that projects should pay an infrastructure tax). Incubator PMC has voted for graduation XML PMC has voted for final

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Engagement by the XMLbeans community with the XML PMC and other ASF sub communities, particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal bias that projects should pay an infrastructure tax). Incubator PMC has voted for graduation XML PMC

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Steven Noels wrote: Do I read you correct in saying that the receiving PMC has no chance anymore to declare an incubation failed, if the Incubator PMC says the contrary? In that case (and I hope I'm wrong), why is the receiving PMC involved then? I've put something slightly different into the

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The sponsoring PMC asks to have that project. This means that it *wants* that project and that community. Why would it change its mind? Maybe there were reservations that the PMC wanted to have covered off during incubation. The best way to ensure that everyone is

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Exactly. The sponsoring PMC asks to have that project. This means that it *wants* that project and that community. Why would it change its mind? Because of things happening during incubation. What if a podling becomes a mutant during incubation, in the best case

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The sponsoring PMC asks to have that project. This means that it *wants* that project and that community. Why would it change its mind? Maybe there were reservations that the PMC wanted to have covered off during incubation. Practical example?

3rd update to roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Peoples, Have done another update and tried to represent the results of the various comments during the day. Have mainly tried to : 1) Re-emphaise the role of a Sponsor as an ongoing role. No particular requirements in the process (other than initial recommendation), but have stated that

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: An incubation needs someone that actively nutrures the community, pushes the agenda and reports to the PMC of which he is part. I call him the sponsor. We also need someone that is knowlegable of how the Incubator works and that reports to the Incubator PMC. I call

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: If a project cannot work well with the Sponsor PMC it's a failure, the Incubator will not agree to make it go. It may decide to swith targets, but imposing a project on non-willing PMC is simply out of question. Which may require a vote of the PMC in question to

Re: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: If a project cannot work well with the Sponsor PMC it's a failure, the Incubator will not agree to make it go. It may decide to swith targets, but imposing a project on non-willing PMC is simply out of question. Which may require a vote of the

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: It's about having an elder shepherd mentoring the main shepherd, and possibly requiring at least two people helping in Incubation. What do others think about this? Over-regulation. /Steven -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/

Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Would be great if you could have a read through the new version of http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?IncubatorMussings Its looking good. One point concerning the description of the Sponsoring Entity. I currently includes a sub-heading Responsibilities

XMLBeans on Apache Wiki home page

2003-09-23 Thread David Remy
Question. Is there any issue with a link to XMLBeansProjectPages being on the Apache Wiki home page? If so, would it go under the XMLProjectPages or under some new IncubatorProjectPages? thx, rem

RE: XMLBeans on Apache Wiki home page

2003-09-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Is there any issue with a link to XMLBeansProjectPages being on the Apache Wiki home page? Go ahead and at it here: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheIncubatorProjectPages. That is linked off of the Wiki home page. --- Noel

Re: Sub-project - TLP

2003-09-23 Thread dion
Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24/09/2003 08:39:08 AM: [snip] As a committer on a (hopefully :-) mature Jakarta subproject (Struts), I As a committer on top level and not top level projects: think there's another dimension here. Can we articulate the advantages of

RE: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: You can call it the anti-big-company rule. Diversity is good on the grounds that (a) no one company can control the direction of an ASF project, and (b) the fate of one company doesn't dictate the fate of the project. But also that the fate of

RE: Exit Criteria

2003-09-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
while they are in the Incubator, they must ensure these releases are clearly labeled as being incubator releases, which are not fully endorsed by the ASF Does this fit with what you had in mind? Works for me. But you should make sure that it works for the Incubator PMC. As I understand from

Getting more newsletter content

2003-09-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya, Most people just want to write code or discuss code. If you want articles, I hate to say it, but you would generally lucky to get someone to send you an e-mail about the latest interesting thing with their project, and you'd have to edit it into something resembling an blurb.

Re: Re: Another cut at roles and responsibilities

2003-09-23 Thread Berin Lautenbach
From: Stephen McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] One point concerning the description of the Sponsoring Entity. I currently includes a sub-heading Responsibilities of the Sponsoring Entity. The content is basically describing responsibilities of the Shepherd. It would read better if this