Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Noel, I think this email represents a good example of mixing official communication of the incubator with your personal agenda to make these top level projects. Emails like this lead to questions like, is this required of all podlings or is this just a requirement because Noel thinks

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noel J. Bergman wrote: Personally, I believe that ActiveMQ ought to be a TLP. Just to be clear, though, that's just a personal opinion at this time, and in no way a 'dis is how t'ings is gonna be' statement. Right? :-) What makes a project with

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Strachan wrote: What if folks involved in the project on the Geronimo project don't want it to be a TLP - at least not for a while yet? e.g. can't we just use the Geronimo PMC until the time folks want/decide to start to go TLP? Or

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dain Sundstrom wrote: Just to make sure this was allowed, before pitching it to the communities, I asked a few of the Board members at Euro OS con and they said it was possible. I didn't want to get into a situation where we do all of the

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Strachan wrote: What if folks involved in the project on the Geronimo project don't want it to be a TLP - at least not for a while yet? e.g. can't we just use the Geronimo PMC until the time folks want/decide to start to go TLP? Or

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/15/06, Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What makes a project with multiple codebases an umbrella is a gray area. I've posted *my* first-pass definition of the term: a TLP that has no deliverable packages of its own, only

Re: Kabuki Infrastructure

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Mar 14, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Andy Clark wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: A number of CLAs were recorded this morning. It appears, at first glance, that we have most of the Zimbra folks, and a CCLA as well. As an ASF Member, you can check the records (and should see commit notices as they

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 3/15/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would jakarta have been any less an umbrella if three years ago we'd started rolling a huge jakarta.jar? Most likely, noone would have used it (in particular, not the developers), so you are right: Roys's definition may be formally

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noel J. Bergman wrote: Considering that both ActiveMQ and ServiceMix really ought to be targeting TLP status, learning to do this is important. That's a bit much, Noel. Where they end up is primarily their own concern -- and not determined until

TSIK-DEV

2006-03-15 Thread Kristof Taveirne
Hi, Could somebody tell me how I can subscribe to the tsik-dev mailinglist. On the project site of TSIK the mailinglist seems to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when I send a subscribe-message to it, I get a failure notice saying there is no mailbox by that name. Can somebody give me some more

Re: [doc] Incubation Policy - Acceptance of Proposal by Sponsor

2006-03-15 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 3/14/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm resurrecting the thread that fell off into /dev/null after http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200603.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] So this sentence in

Re: Lucene.Net mailing list

2006-03-15 Thread Brett Porter
(It looks like you were replying to everyone, not just me, so I've added back the CC to the incubator list on this message). Thanks for doing this! I've created the lists. Please let me know if the commits are going to the right place. The status page looks ok to me, so please go ahead and

Re: [doc] Incubation Policy - Acceptance of Proposal by Sponsor

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 3/14/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm resurrecting the thread that fell off into /dev/null after http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200603.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] So this sentence in

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: This is not a vote, but simply a discussion about the graduation of ActiveMQ from the Incubator. Personally, I do not consider ActiveMQ ready. And I do believe that it should be targeting TLP status. It has its own community, is

Re: Incubator PMC membership

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I'm curious, how does one get into the Incubator PMC? It's open to all members now with a simple ping - ack - short wait cycle. All members interested in contributing to this effort are welcomed if they would help provide the mentoring and

Re: Incubator PMC membership

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: So, ASF corporate members can become members. That fits in with my understanding as well since, IIUC, ASF corporate members can join any PMC that they wish. Correct. Although the 'ASF corporate member' is generally

Re: Incubator PMC membership

2006-03-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: So, ASF corporate members can become members. That fits in with my understanding as well since, IIUC, ASF corporate members can join any PMC that they wish. That's not -quite- accurate. ASF Foundation members can read and chime in on any PMC, as most internal

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Alan, There is something going on that i can't really put my finger on. - The large # of committers who don't really commit - The presence of ActiveCluster/ActiveIO which were separate projects in codehaus (is the active cluster code inside the milestone? i don't see a separate jar). - The

Re: [doc] Incubation Policy - Acceptance of Proposal by Sponsor

2006-03-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a concern about item 2. It has been my experience that the Incubator PMC can be a bit tardy in replying to emails. May I suggest that the 72 hour window starts w/ item 1? Given that, then item 2 seems superfluous. Well, given

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/15/06, Jochen Wiedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would jakarta have been any less an umbrella if three years ago we'd started rolling a huge jakarta.jar? Most likely, noone would have used it (in particular, not the

Re: [doc] Incubation Policy - Acceptance of Proposal by Sponsor

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a concern about item 2. It has been my experience that the Incubator PMC can be a bit tardy in replying to emails. May I suggest that the 72 hour window starts w/ item 1? Given that, then item 2 seems

Re: Incubator PMC membership

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: So, ASF corporate members can become members. That fits in with my understanding as well since, IIUC, ASF corporate members can join any PMC that they wish. Correct. Although the

Re: Incubator PMC membership

2006-03-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I'm not complaining, just making an observation which may be incorrect. No, your point was dead on. Which is why I expect very few if any new Incubator PMC members to be brought in. s/new Incubator PMC members/new non-ASF member,

Re: [doc] Incubation Policy - Acceptance of Proposal by Sponsor

2006-03-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can extrapolate from past behavior on important podling votes. My reservations are fair and based on past behavior. No one other than an Incubator PMC member can acknowledge receipt of a message intended for the Incubator PMC. The notice

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Personally, I believe that ActiveMQ ought to be a TLP. Just to be clear, though, that's just a personal opinion Which part of Personally, I believe wasn't clear? ;-) What makes a project with multiple codebases an umbrella is a gray area. I've posted *my*

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/15/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip good stuff.. Have TLPs and have each TLP's website be at geronimo.apache.org. Investigate federations. Even investigate sharing mailing lists. ...snip good stuff.. Jakarta and XML have gone that 'federation' route with a bunch of

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dain Sundstrom wrote: Our goal when starting the incubation process of ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, WADI, and XBean, was to consolidate the Geronimo community. Consolidating the community is a good thing. I've long wanted to see a number of those projects at the ASF. The vision was to

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/15/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip good stuff.. Have TLPs and have each TLP's website be at geronimo.apache.org. Investigate federations. Even investigate sharing mailing lists. ...snip good stuff.. Jakarta and

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Strachan wrote: What other issues are there? A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice as an ASF community. Such things

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
robert burrell donkin wrote: Ken wrote: I've posted *my* first-pass definition of the term: a TLP that has no deliverable packages of its own, only from its subprojects. my first pass definition is quite different: an umbrella is a project where there is the legal and formal organization

RE: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ken wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Considering that both ActiveMQ and ServiceMix really ought to be targeting TLP status, learning to do this is important. That's a bit much, Noel. Where they end up is primarily their own concern -- and not determined until graduation anyway. Sorry for

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Henri Yandell wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The APR spin-off from HTTP Server was probably the first federation (although it wasn't called that). HTTP Server depends upon APR and they have a large committer and PMCer overlap (but not total), but from the Foundation/Board's

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread David Blevins
If you ask me what my opinion on OpenEJB's future or James' opinion on ActiveMQ's future, we'll both probably tell you TLP is a good goal eventually. We've more or less been running as TLPs in relation to Geronimo for the past two plus years already, just at Codehaus. We've seen how

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I only see infrastructure issues in your list of concerns that would prevent the graduation of ActiveMQ. Look again, but also at comments from Dims, Henri and others. You express an opinion that it should be a TLP but mention that it has a long way to go before it's

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Hiram Chirino
Hi Noel, If the ActiveMQ / ServiceMix community do decide to go under some other TLP, I'm sure it would not take long for the active participants of the community to asked to Join the TLP's PMC. It would behoove that PMC to include such active community participants in the decision making

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David Blevins wrote: Lots of good stuff, thanks. :-) If you ask me what my opinion on OpenEJB's future or James' opinion on ActiveMQ's future, we'll both probably tell you TLP is a good goal eventually. We've more or less been running as TLPs in relation to Geronimo for the past two plus

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/15/06, Hiram Chirino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Noel, If the ActiveMQ / ServiceMix community do decide to go under some other TLP, I'm sure it would not take long for the active participants of the community to asked to Join the TLP's PMC. It would behoove that PMC to include such

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Alan, There is something going on that i can't really put my finger on. - The large # of committers who don't really commit This is a perennial issue w/ incubation, IIRC. Do we give commit to all original committers and take it away from inactive ones or do we go

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: James Strachan wrote: What other issues are there? A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I only see infrastructure issues in your list of concerns that would prevent the graduation of ActiveMQ. Look again, but also at comments from Dims, Henri and others. At the moment, only Dims has taken the time to enumerate a list of

RE: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Hiram Chirino wrote: If the ActiveMQ / ServiceMix community do decide to go under some other TLP, I'm sure it would not take long for the active participants of the community to asked to Join the TLP's PMC. I would certainly hope that they would want to be, yes. Hence ... I believe that

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I do feel that some of it does come down to being able to convey a subjective confidence to the Incubator PMC that the community really does get it regarding ASF principles and practices. There are a number of definitions for the word subjective. An operational

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice as an ASF community. Such things are subjective, and

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I don't see any rush here. I think your initial 'what do we need to work on in order to eventually graduate?' message got interpreted by some - -- probably myself included -- as a 'what are the last items to check off so we

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henri Yandell wrote: Interesting reply - I'd been assuming that when an incubatee graduates into an existing project, it's PPMC automatically get added to the PMC. So I was a bit confused as to why Noel was even asking the question.

[STATUS] (incubator) Wed Mar 15 23:56:43 2006

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2006-02-05 04:40:19 -0500 (Sun, 05 Feb 2006) $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ [note: the Web site is the 'official' documentation; the

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Hiram Chirino
Hi Henri, I think a good example of why not just a shoe in is because when the ServiceMix and ActiveMQ apache commiter list was created, it included all previous commiters to the project. But 100% of committers may not have been active during the period of the incubation. All though the

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henri Yandell wrote: Interesting reply - I'd been assuming that when an incubatee graduates into an existing project, it's PPMC automatically get added to the PMC. So I was a bit confused as to why Noel was even

Re: ActiveMQ and ServiceMix reports

2006-03-15 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do these really have to be Apache credits accumulated? Let's do a hypothetical situation. Let's say that some guy puts in a few years of his life into a CodeHaus project. Then, he has a kid. At that time the project moves to ASF and

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: - The presence of ActiveCluster/ActiveIO which were separate projects in codehaus (is the active cluster code inside the milestone?