Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Looking at the current list of projects, we have many that exceed that number.  Far exceed that number.  In fact the median age is 416 days and the mean age is 536. Thanks to Gavin installing the necessary prerequisites

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Looking at the current list of projects, we have many that exceed that number.  Far exceed that number.  In fact the median age is 416 days and the

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Henri Yandell flame...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: We are, however, recognizing that we've had growth issues of our own.

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Looking at the current list of projects, we have many that exceed

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote:  http://people.apache.org/~rubys/incubator-by-age I think there are more tools like this around... i think it makes sense to

Re: Missing reports (was: Re: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Jim Jagielski
For now on, Marvin which sends the reminder Emails to the PMCs will also send reminders to all the PPMCs (via their *-dev@ lists) as well as the summary to IPMC. It's crucial the that http://incubator.apache.org/report_due_[123].txt page be up to date and correct since Marvin still pulls

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: We are, however, recognizing that we've had growth issues of our own.  As David Crossley pointed out, he made mistakes last month related to the

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I've had been using a high bar with the podlings I mentor/participate. I'll look into graduating couple podlings after I come back from Thanks Giving : Apache PhotArk, Apache Wink. First things first - can you

should podlings have informal chairs?

2011-11-20 Thread Brett Porter
Hi, Some time back we moved to having 3 mentors, which had the positive of more hands and enough binding votes, but the downside of no single person on the hook for a podling's reporting and progress towards graduation. Should we appoint one of the mentors at the start to be the chair of the

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Brett Porter
On 16/11/2011, at 12:36 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: My personal perspective is that incubation shouldn't generally take more than a year. That doesn't mean that there won't be exceptions, and in a few rare cases, some that go well beyond that arbitrary time limit, but the point is that those

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread Kevan Miller
On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I've had been using a high bar with the podlings I mentor/participate. I'll look into graduating couple podlings after I come back from Thanks Giving :

Re: [VOTE] Graduate ACE from the Apache Incubator

2011-11-20 Thread ant elder
That seems an unusual approach to building the src. It also means that to build the complete 0.8.0 release which contains 60 something modules would require manually typing in over 400 commands which is not very practical, i doubt anyone who voted +1 for the release actually did that. I think an

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2011-11-20 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Henri Yandell flame...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Noel J. Bergman

[VOTE] Release Sqoop version 1.4.0-incubating (with release candidate rc1)

2011-11-20 Thread Bilung Lee
This will be the first incubator release for Apache Sqoop, version 1.4.0-incubating. We got two IPMC votes from our dev list and are looking for a third. Thanks! *** Please cast the vote by November 23, 2011 *** Dev list vote result: http://markmail.org/message/jehsoo2vi6xboovu The list of