Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Alex Harui
IMO, there are two problems: 1) We're trying to train folks to manage IP for their community but they have to seek approval from folks are aren't as vested in their community. My analogy is telling a new city council member: "Welcome to the city council. For the next year all of your decisions wi

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
Woohoo. And i'll point out that LEGAL-182 has just been closed too saying its fine, so everyone should be able to be happy. Sorry it all took so long. ...ant On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Till Westmann wrote: > Hi, > > the vote to release RC4 as Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 passes after

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that they don't require at least three binding votes, but instead make it at least three votes only one of which must be binding. That would mean there would still be the element of oversight that a mentor vote gives but avoids all the p

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 10/11/13 09:04, ant elder wrote: How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that they don't require at least three binding votes, but instead make it at least three votes only one of which must be binding. That would mean there would still be the element of oversight that a

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Benson Margulies
A summarized agreement with this thread: The bottom line, I think, is that _someone_ has to provide the supervision that the board delegates to a PMC. The virtue of the 'demolish the incubator' proposal is that it makes that point absolutely clear. If there were no incubator, the board would need

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/10/13 5:46 AM, "Benson Margulies" wrote: >A summarized agreement with this thread: > >The bottom line, I think, is that _someone_ has to provide the >supervision that the board delegates to a PMC. > >The virtue of the 'demolish the incubator' proposal is that it makes >that point absolute

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:04 AM, ant elder wrote: > How about simply changing the rules for Incubator releases so that > they don't require at least three binding votes, but instead make it > at least three votes only one of which must be binding. That would > mean there would still be the element o

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > A summarized agreement with this thread: >8 snip 8< > One could hope that this schema is a near-complete solution to vote > problems. The _first_ release benefits from mentors who signed up to > be there and vote, and subsequent

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Unlikely to get at least Roy’s approval because release votes are expected to be a decision of the full committee, not any one member of it. On Nov 10, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:04 AM, ant elder wrote: > >> How about simply changing the rules for Incu

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Is there such a concept as "Lazy Majority" ? Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and others ) as does Apache HTTP. [1] "Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan." Different projects however use different terms, as far as I can see "Lazy Major

Re: who are your Mentors

2013-11-10 Thread Kevin Minder
The linked pages are correct for Knox. On 11/8/13 2:16 AM, David Crossley wrote: I reckon that these lists are not complete. Would people from each podling review the generated lists at: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ a list of all current podlings with Description and Mentors, etc. ht

Re: [VOTE] Accept Twill for Incubation

2013-11-10 Thread Bernd Fondermann
+1 Bernd On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > +1 (binding) > > Arun > > On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > > > The discussion about the Weave proposal has calmed. As the outcome of the > > discussion, we have chosen a new name for the project, Twill. I wo

Re: [IMO] There are no Incubator issues

2013-11-10 Thread Kevin Minder
Just offering my $0.02. I'm working on the Knox podling and perhaps I've just been lucky by my mentors have been GREAT. Sure some times I've had to ping them directly to get a question answered or get a vote but that is to be expected in a volunteer org. One thing Knox did right (by accident

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I'm proud to be part of that group. I would like to see it grow -- in my > view, the Incubator has erred by not recruiting aggressively enough! +1 On every project that goes through incubation there should be several candidates that now understand the incubation process worked and the issu

Re: [VOTE] Accept Twill for Incubation

2013-11-10 Thread larry mccay
+1 (non-binding) On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > > > The discussion about the Weave proposal has calmed. As the outcome of the > > discussion, we have chosen a new name for the project, Twil

Re: [VOTE] Accept Twill for Incubation

2013-11-10 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
+1 - binding Regards, Alan On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > [ ] +1 Accept Twill into the Incubator

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Joseph Schaefer wrote: > Unlikely to get at least Roy’s approval because release > votes are expected to be a decision of the full committee, > not any one member of it. +1: Much as some people here as in favor of dismantlement, and others would like to see some

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread Joseph Schaefer
No offense folks, but this isn’t exactly new information or has anyone offered an actual PATH to follow to get us out of this mess. Bringing more people into the IPMC can be accomplished by anyone willing to put some names out there for us to consider, but that hasn’t yielded anything so far to hel

Fwd: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-10 Thread ant elder
Well ok but to help rule that one out lets see if we can hear this from the horses mouth. Hi Roy, As usual over at the Incubator we're having discussion about how to make things work better. One problem is with the struggle that some podling releases have at getting 3 binding votes from Incubato

NPanday, new start?

2013-11-10 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all I got two answares on the npanday dev who are interested to help NPanday. It looks like the project is in use outthere, but they lake community building. I'm willing to help there, but NPanday realy need new Mentors since the old one are inactive for one Year. So who is willing to hel

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-10 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Every American that has voted for a public office knows that winning the majority has nothing to do with the total population of potential voters. Let’s not try to rationalize geekdom’s love affair with special purpose terminology- my own pet peeve is what the java world did to the word distributi

Re: projects "graduated" need to tidy up

2013-11-10 Thread David Crossley
Jake Farrell wrote: > I've started to clean up the voter status page and have been finishing the > incubator closing steps for projects that have already graduated. Updates > for the projects listed below should start appearing shortly as the nightly > scripts run. Hopefully these steps will make i

[ANNOUNCE] Daniel Gruno joins the IPMC

2013-11-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Greets, Apache Member Daniel Gruno (humbedooh) has joined the Incubator PMC. Welcome! Marvin Humphrey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.ap

Re: projects "graduated" need to tidy up

2013-11-10 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > Jake Farrell wrote: > > > > I've started to clean up the voter status page ... Thanks. Let us hope that that enourages podlings to continue to follow through. > ... and have been finishing the > > incubator closing steps for projects that have already graduated. However t