Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread ant elder
I'd hope we can demonstrate finding consensus rather than using the vote to resolve this. I still think forced retirement doesn't seem the right thing in this case so my -1 stands. In the other thread Alan now seems open to giving them another try, i've offered to help with that (any other offers

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread ant elder
Great to hear, one month seemed too short to accomplish so much. I'd be happy to volunteer as another mentor if some fresh eyes will help. ...ant On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > If we decide to give the podling another chance I would prefer to give it > another six mon

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> As I mentioned in an earlier email, we did have this conversation seven >> months ago. We came to a consensus to give it another try. We even added >> a few committers a "bit

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Johnson
I'm mostly just a lurker on this list, having thought about bringing a project to Apache about 24 months ago[1], realizing we didn't quite have the demand/community. Since then I've been lurking, wanting to see when/whether it makes sense to attempt it again, reflecting on the state of the proj

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Flex podling from Apache Incubator

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Harui
Is it ok to close this vote? It happened over the long holiday weekend in the US and we only got five total votes, three from our mentors. Thanks, -Alex On 11/22/12 11:57 AM, "Alan Cabrera" wrote: > +1 - binding > > Regards, > Alan > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> T

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Alan, +1 from me. Cheers, Chris On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > If we decide to give the podling another chance I would prefer to give it > another six months rather than just one month. I don't think that a lot can > reasonably be accomplished in one month. I would also

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
I wonder if we can ask that incubation proposals include how they intend to get the message out there. What channels are relevant for the project? I guess what are their marketing plans. Eventually, we'd have a collection of old incubation proposals that new podlings could use to garner ideas

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
If we decide to give the podling another chance I would prefer to give it another six months rather than just one month. I don't think that a lot can reasonably be accomplished in one month. I would also like to see some milestones set in those six months. If the milestones are met or not me

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> As I mentioned in an earlier email, we did have this conversation seven >> months ago. We came to a consensus to give it another try. We even added >> a few committers a "bit e

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Growing community is about "getting the message out there". There has to be > someone in the project who wants to do that. Some techniques are: > > - press > - community events > - mentoring (that is mentoring of potential new committers) > -

RE: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Ross Gardler
Growing community is about "getting the message out there". There has to be someone in the project who wants to do that. Some techniques are: - press - community events - mentoring (that is mentoring of potential new committers) - fast turnaround on patch reviews - regular releases - decent websi

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 to Jukka's suggestion here. The world isn't going to end if we give them another month, and beyond that, it will give someone besides Eric the opportunity to help cruft the plan (hopefully 2 people besides Eric, since that would mean 3 active peeps in the community). If that plan can't be achi

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Yeah my sentiments here are of caution -- seems like we need to root out what is going on here based on the community reaction. Cheers, Chris On Nov 26, 2012, at 2:59 AM, ant elder wrote: > -1 > > In the vote on their dev list there wasn't unanimous support for retiring > the project, that shou

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > As I mentioned in an earlier email, we did have this conversation seven > months ago. We came to a consensus to give it another try. We even added > a few committers a "bit early" with the hopes that they would infuse the > project >

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
Another favor: What are the voting rules for this case? I'm assuming that -1 != veto, but can anyone point to precedent or documentation I'd be grateful. A caution: I have been up since 4:15AM and it's now 7:24PM, so I'm prone to overlook the obvious. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Bertrand D

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
Luciano, My five cents is this: growing communities is really, really, hard, and I don't know that anyone at Apache has a recipe. If anyone does, it might be the comdev committee. I'm not sure that this PMC can take it on. We can barely muster the minimal supervision that the board requires of us.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Marmotta

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
OK, I get it. We've got that in process. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Sergio Fernández wrote: > Benson, > everything is fine regarding Nandana, but we're still awaiting a formal > resolution about Fabian Christ. > > > On 26.11.2012 21:15, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Andy, who's missing? N..

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Yang
I did a search on issues updated in the past 6 month, and here is the list: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+CHUKWA+AND+resolution+in+%28Unresolved%2C+Fixed%2C+%22Won%27t+Fix%22%29+AND+updated+%3E%3D+-180d+ORDER+BY+reporter+ASC%2C+key+DESC

Re: How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Ted Dunning
Actually, this has its own difficulty. Sponsorship can lead to (inadvertent or intended) domination by the sponsored developers. But I agree completely that helping volunteer communities grow is an important issue. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > Growing communities w

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 26 nov. 2012 21:06, "Benson Margulies" a écrit : > > For those voting -1, I'd like to see, on another thread, some > discussion about just how we handle podlings where there are > longstanding issues but no consensus on the PPMC Based on the mentors additional info, and after reviewing the

How to grow podling communities

2012-11-26 Thread Luciano Resende
-- Forwarded message -- From: *Benson Margulies* Date: Monday, November 26, 2012 Subject: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation To: "general@incubator.apache.org" For those voting -1, I'd like to see, on another thread, some discussion about just how we handle podlings where there

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> Even by the PPMC's comments they obliquely acknowledge that there's not much >> activity and expressed an interested in simply keeping it around with the >> hopes >> that someth

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Marmotta

2012-11-26 Thread Sergio Fernández
Benson, everything is fine regarding Nandana, but we're still awaiting a formal resolution about Fabian Christ. On 26.11.2012 21:15, Benson Margulies wrote: Andy, who's missing? N. is now formally a member. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: A quick update on the Mar

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Bloodhound 0.3 (incubating)

2012-11-26 Thread Branko Čibej
On 26.11.2012 16:59, Joachim Dreimann wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to request the beginning of the vote for the third release of > Apache Bloodhound in the incubator following the successful vote by the > Bloodhound PPMC. > > The result of the vote is summarised here: > http://markmail.org/threa

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > Even by the PPMC's comments they obliquely acknowledge that there's not much > activity and expressed an interested in simply keeping it around with the > hopes > that something would happen; there were no concrete ideas or plans on how

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Marmotta

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
Andy, who's missing? N. is now formally a member. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: > A quick update on the Marmotta proposal. > > Thanks everyone for the comments. The proposal should reflect the > discussions. > > One of the mentors is not yet formally a member of IPMC

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
For those voting -1, I'd like to see, on another thread, some discussion about just how we handle podlings where there are longstanding issues but no consensus on the PPMC. We've heading in the same direction on Photark, and some consensus about how or when to reach a respectful conclusion as a PMC

RE: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
+1 >-Original Message- >From: Alan Cabrera [mailto:l...@toolazydogs.com] >Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 6:00 PM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation > >Hi, > >The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. > >Following the retirement gui

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > Hi, > > The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. > > Following the retirement guide [1], I now call the Incubator PMC to vote on > confirming this decision. > [X ] +1 Retire the Chukwa project Bernd, after careful considera

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Jakob Homan
+1. Whatever merits the Chukwa codebase may have, it's not got an active community - there's just no way around that. Eric's heroic efforts, notwithstanding, it's time to see if it'll have success in Github. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > +1 > > I don't see how

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Christian Grobmeier
+1 I don't see how the project can grow a community. The community vote received a single -1, most others "don't care". With most of the community members "not caring" about their project and the sole active developer concurring, I believe its a better match for GitHub. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Alan, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> Actually there is activity. Only in September 2 new committers joined. >> Looking at SVN, there is activity too: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/chukwa/trunk/src/

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > > > Hi IPMC, > > > > For the past two years, Chukwa has been labelled as non-active project by > > mentors, and has been put on votes for retiring this project by mentor > and > > IPMC. > > In

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Alexei Fedotov wrote: > I wonder which steps were taken by mentors, community and pmc to foster a > community. I want to learn something from this case. Thanks. When we had our first retirement discussion early this year it was the consensus that we would wait until

[VOTE] Release Apache Bloodhound 0.3 (incubating)

2012-11-26 Thread Joachim Dreimann
Hi, I would like to request the beginning of the vote for the third release of Apache Bloodhound in the incubator following the successful vote by the Bloodhound PPMC. The result of the vote is summarised here: http://markmail.org/thread/owksv6lbcs6zq7th The artefacts for the release including

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alexei Fedotov
I wonder which steps were taken by mentors, community and pmc to foster a community. I want to learn something from this case. Thanks. 26.11.2012 18:55 пользователь "Alan Cabrera" написал: > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > > > Hi IPMC, > > > > For the past two years, Chukwa has

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >>> The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. >> >> -1 The community vote [1] was far from unanimous. I'd expect

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > Hi IPMC, > > For the past two years, Chukwa has been labelled as non-active project by > mentors, and has been put on votes for retiring this project by mentor and > IPMC. > In this year's stats, Chukwa has more activities in comparison to Apache >

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan Cabrera
On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > Actually there is activity. Only in September 2 new committers joined. > Looking at SVN, there is activity too: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/chukwa/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/chukwa/ > > Unfortunately the most acti

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Marmotta

2012-11-26 Thread Andy Seaborne
A quick update on the Marmotta proposal. Thanks everyone for the comments. The proposal should reflect the discussions. One of the mentors is not yet formally a member of IPMC so we're waiting until we have three formal mentors before calling the proposal vote. (and still, ideally, looking

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Ted Dunning
I just read the last few months of discussion on the list. I think that retirement really isn't a bad idea. The single active developer (Eric Y) is the only one who voted against retirement. It really seems like this project would do better in a place like github. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:37

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Actually there is activity. Only in September 2 new committers joined. Looking at SVN, there is activity too: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/chukwa/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/chukwa/ Unfortunately the most active committer - if not the only one - is Eric. For me (others may cor

Re: What constitute a successful project?

2012-11-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Eric Yang wrote: > ...With respect to the voting result, but it leaves me > puzzled that why should Chukwa be retired. When there are contributors, > and there are activities for growth... Note that there's several -1s in the [VOTE] thread on general@incubator.a.

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
> [X] -1 Do not retire the project, because ... As others have said in this thread there's no clear consensus. -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: gener

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Wink from Incubator

2012-11-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
> [X] +1 Graduate Wink podling from Incubator -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Wink from Incubator

2012-11-26 Thread Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
[ X ] +1 (binding) Graduate Wink podling from Incubator Best Regards, Nandana On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Raymond Feng wrote: > +1 (binding). > > Sent from my iPhone 5 > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > > > The Apache Wink project entered incubator in May of 2009. S

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: >> The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. > > -1 The community vote [1] was far from unanimous. I'd expect the > community being retired to have greater consensus (or, as is

Re: [VOTE] Retire Chukwa from incubation

2012-11-26 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > The Chukwa community has voted to retire the project. -1 The community vote [1] was far from unanimous. I'd expect the community being retired to have greater consensus (or, as is more common in such situations, at least indifference) ab