Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 7, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 7, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On a whole different direction, one way to scale is to shift from Incubator-managed

Re: Would like to be added to Climate incubator group

2013-05-08 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Thanks Suresh! ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/

If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors that can be reinstated merely by asking. Those emeritus mentors who wish to remain mentors must acknowledge that they will

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors that can be reinstated merely by asking

Re: Looking for a Champion

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Tom Everett t...@khubla.com wrote: ...I haven't made a significant effort to build a community around Pragmatach, mainly because I'm not familiar with how to announce it, where, and to whom... The best way to build a community is to write enough initial code to

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Ross Gardler
On 7 May 2013 21:15, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On a whole different direction, one way to scale is to shift from Incubator-managed podlings to Board-managed. The podling would effectively be a TLP on probation. The Champion, Mentors, and Board would be providing oversight. I would

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Ross Gardler
On 8 May 2013 01:01, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread ant elder
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Discussions on Ross' and Chris' proposals ground to a halt. In my view, there are real issues that drove those discussions, even if those

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ...I've made a proposal for giving the IPMC teeth but it hasn't gained support.. URL? ...In the absence of something else with teeth then I'm +1 for probationary TLPs as proposed by Chris as long as we stop

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Tim Williams
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the mentor risks being removed for not performing their duties. I like

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I perceive here that we have reached a favorite knot: the tension between 'mentor as coach' and 'mentor as supervisor'. This PMC's job, as delegated by the board, is supervision. If the mentors don't supervise, who will? On the other hand, the very term, 'mentor', is much more suggestive of

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...I continue to hope for consensus on the thing I wrote... I had another look at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BensonApril2013ProcessProposals and I like it. While asking all podlings to confirm their current

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ...If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...I continue to hope for consensus on the thing I wrote... I had another look at

Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: The probationary PMC proposal of Chris' which Greg is championing gives teeth to the whole process. That's what the IPMC needs - teeth. Shuttling the kids off to the grandparents, even if they have all their teeth, is

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Eric Johnson
Mostly a lurker, but a quick reply... On 5/8/13 2:53 AM, Tim Williams wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Tim Williams william...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: ... Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: Mostly a lurker, but a quick reply... And, in order to facilitate continuous improvement over time, the incubator as a whole could periodically survey random incubator committers and determine whether they're getting the

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Suresh Marru
On May 8, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Alan Cabrera a...@toolazydogs.com wrote: If I were king of the forest, I would be to fire all the mentors. All except, of course, me, because I'm the king. :) All the ex-mentors would become emeritus mentors that can be reinstated merely by asking. There is a

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: One last suggested refinement: At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where the third is generally a backup for the others in a

Re: A lot of reports missing these period

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? Regards, Alan On May 7, 2013, at 7:25 PM, David Crossley cross...@apache.org wrote: Christian Grobmeier wrote: Folks, its reporting time and at the wiki are a lot of them missing! http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2013 Ambari Blur

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Suresh Marru sma...@apache.org wrote: Podlings would be required to have a minimum of two active mentors. A mentor is free to become inactive but must explicitly state this else the mentor risks being removed for not performing their duties. Podlings that do

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers chip.child...@sungard.com wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: One last

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: On May 8, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers chip.child...@sungard.com wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: On

Re: Would like to be added to Climate incubator group

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Joyce
Thanks Suresh, this is exactly what I needed! I'm able to commit now. Cheers! On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (398J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Thanks Suresh! ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alexei Fedotov
If I'm a king of a dream forest... I think how to improve attractiveness of free software to contributors. It is no longer a cool trend. How about find some resources (maybe internal ones) to make people strengthen the community by creative reasons? Business reasons are short living (compared to

[jira] [Created] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32) Establish whether Apache MRQL is a suitable name

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera (JIRA)
Alan Cabrera created PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32: - Summary: Establish whether Apache MRQL is a suitable name Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Suresh Marru
On May 8, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: One last suggested refinement: At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where the third is generally a backup for the others in a transition period, such as one of the mentors looking to shed their

Re: If I were king of the forest

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Suresh Marru sma...@apache.org wrote: Will a lazy consensus IPMC time be as motivating (for taking time to verify releases) as the required 3rd vote? Sebb is awesome. I think people make the effort because they want to. The 72 hour period allow for people to

marvin report reminders

2013-05-08 Thread David Crossley
Alan Cabrera wrote: Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? At https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/board_reminders/ There are various discussions in the Incubator archives about how the data lists (for mail addresses for each project due to report each

Re: marvin report reminders

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 8, 2013, at 8:06 PM, David Crossley cross...@apache.org wrote: Alan Cabrera wrote: Does anyone know where the Marvin code bits live? At https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/board_reminders/ There are various discussions in the Incubator archives about