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

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: If this was a software project, and the appropriate answer was unknown, they you might apply a lean startup approach, and figure out how to run tests to see which way works best. Given the number of incubating projects,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release Curator 2.0.0-incubating released

2013-05-11 Thread sebb
Congrats. However, what is Curator? The mail does not say anything about it. Please ensure that any announcement e-mails about Curator include a brief description of what it is. On 10 May 2013 17:47, Jordan Zimmerman randg...@apache.org wrote: Hello, The Apache Curator team is pleased to

Re: Writing some tooling

2013-05-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Alan Cabrera wrote on Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:58:24 -0700: The first thing that I'm writing is a command that will print out who is the owner of an email alias and what projects they belong to and if they are ASF members. This will help me vet subscription requests since people rarely use

Re: Writing some tooling

2013-05-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sat, May 11, 2013 at 13:43:37 +0300: Alan Cabrera wrote on Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:58:24 -0700: The first thing that I'm writing is a command that will print out who is the owner of an email alias and what projects they belong to and if they are ASF members. This

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

2013-05-11 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm not going to ask the May board meeting anything. There's no consensus of this community on 'probationary projects', and, more to the point, there are a host of details required to make that a viable proposal and no one has filled them in. As I wrote in the report, I plan to have a discussion

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

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
Actually I wasn't thinking it would be you Benson who talked to the board. There are several directors here including a couple on this thread who've said they support trying this so i thought they could bring it up informally at the upcoming meeting just to get us an idea if this is something the

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

2013-05-11 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Frankly I find the notion that the board will do a better job of MENTORING these projects than the IPMC to be batshit insane, but that's just me. We need manpower, and there is plenty of that available amongst the competent volunteers who actively participate in these projects. Let's just do

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

2013-05-11 Thread Ross Gardler
It's not just you Joe. From: Joseph Schaefer Sent: 11/05/2013 15:34 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC Frankly I find the notion that the board will do a better job of MENTORING these projects than the IPMC to be batshit insane,

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

2013-05-11 Thread Ross Gardler
It's not just you Joe. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Joseph Schaefer Sent: 11/05/2013 15:34 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC Frankly I find the notion that the board will do a better job of MENTORING these projects than

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

2013-05-11 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 11, 2013, at 7:26 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I also agree that there isn't consensus in the Incubator PMC to do this, but I'm not sure we need it. Lovely. Regards, Alan

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

2013-05-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Violating my 24 hour rule just this one, and worse yet to repeat myself: +1 Joe, Ross, etc. I rather regret mentioning the direct launch alternative in my most recent email. We have some weakness in _mentoring_, and more weakness in _supervising_ (or at least in documenting supervision). We have

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

2013-05-11 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 11, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: A real experiment with 'probationary projects' would have to model the entire process of a new project launching with _no IPMC_ to participate in any way. Can you explain what problem launching new projects with _no

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

2013-05-11 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 11, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Violating my 24 hour rule just this one, and worse yet to repeat myself: IMO, I think this is fine so long as it occurs on the weekend. :) +1 Joe, Ross, etc. I rather regret mentioning the direct launch

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

2013-05-11 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 11, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Joseph Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Frankly I find the notion that the board will do a better job of MENTORING these projects than the IPMC to be batshit insane, but that's just me. We need manpower, and there is plenty of that available amongst the

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

2013-05-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It's often called a dead-man's switch. I think the term applied originally to locomotive engineers and also metro car drivers. (I'm not sure what a dead pilot switch could accomplish in an aircraft.) I think having mentors review and sign PPMC status reports is an effective dead mentor's

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

2013-05-11 Thread Alan Cabrera
On May 11, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It's often called a dead-man's switch. I think the term applied originally to locomotive engineers and also metro car drivers. (I'm not sure what a dead pilot switch could accomplish in an aircraft.) I

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

2013-05-11 Thread Joseph Schaefer
I firmly believe our priority in mentoring podlings is to instill self-governance as early as is feasible, and the proven way to accomplish that task is to identify suitable members of the podling and elect them to the IPMC so they are fully empowered to do it. Every other approach is

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

2013-05-11 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Benson, -Original Message- From: Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:44 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the

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

2013-05-11 Thread Benson Margulies
If you think it's clear in either direction, call a VOTE. I think that's the only demonstrable way to suggest what's clear and what's not. Please see several emails from Greg and others on the board@ list recently pointing out the inappropriateness of overuse of votes. If even *one* person

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

2013-05-11 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013 7:01 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall

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

2013-05-11 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
-Original Message- From: Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:56 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall

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

2013-05-11 Thread Ross Gardler
Alan keeps asking that we isolate the problems that need solving. Sounds sensible. For me the IPMC usually works just fine. Occasionally there is a failure in mentoring and occasionally the IPMC fails to pick this up and address it. In addition, sometimes the IPMC is an inefficient vehicle for

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

2013-05-11 Thread ant elder
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: If you think it's clear in either direction, call a VOTE. I think that's the only demonstrable way to suggest what's clear and what's not. Please see several emails from Greg and others on the board@ list recently

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release Curator 2.0.0-incubating released

2013-05-11 Thread Jordan Zimmerman
I've added a description line to the ANNOUNCE sample email: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/Example+Emails -Jordan On May 11, 2013, at 1:00 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats. However, what is Curator? The mail does not say anything about it. Please ensure

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

2013-05-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Chris, As I feel like I've explained 100 times, all of the following are true: 1) I disagree with your proposal 2) I agree with much of your analyses of problems with the IPMC 3) I I trying to do a job of consensus moderation as best I understand how, being fair to you and to all the involuntary