Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - We could better spend our energy looking at podlings with Mentor problems and deciding which of three possible states fits the podling. - Failed - no community is trully involved and there is nothing an active mentor could do. Let's just admit it and retire the podling. - Needs Help - a

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread jan i
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:46 AM, jan i j...@apache.org javascript:; wrote: On 7 January 2015 at 19:32, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com javascript:; wrote: On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Branko Čibej

Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] Accept OpenAz (Access Control Tools) into the Apache Incubator

2015-01-08 Thread DRAGOSH, PAMELA L (PAM)
+1 Pam Pamela L. Dragosh PMTS ­ Research One ATT Way 4D-170P Bedminster, NJ 07921 908-901-2120 - Office pdrag...@research.att.com On 1/5/15, 2:04 PM, Hal Lockhart hal.lockh...@oracle.com wrote: I added a comma and the word and to the Mentors section. The Mentors are: Emmanuel Lécharny,

Re: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: WTF? There have been presentations about the apache way at every ApacheCon for about 15 years (twice in most years). I personally give 5-10 such presentations a year (sometimes public sometimes

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 08/01/15 16:48, Chip Childers wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:18:59PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote: Retiring the role of Champion sounds like an idea whose time has come. We gave the Champion additional oversight responsibilities a while back -- but how many times since then has having

RE: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 All we care about is that the podling has an active mentor who knows when to ask for support and gets that support when they need it. Ross Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@apache.org] Sent:

Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] Accept OpenAz (Access Control Tools) into the Apache Incubator

2015-01-08 Thread Dilli Arumugam
+1 On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:14 PM, DRAGOSH, PAMELA L (PAM) pdrag...@research.att.com wrote: +1 Pam Pamela L. Dragosh PMTS ­ Research One ATT Way 4D-170P Bedminster, NJ 07921 908-901-2120 - Office pdrag...@research.att.com On 1/5/15, 2:04 PM, Hal Lockhart hal.lockh...@oracle.com

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Jan 8, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: +1 All we care about is that the podling has an active mentor who knows when to ask for support and gets that support when they need it. Following that statement to a logical conclusion, all

RE: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
pTLP adds a great deal of overhead to the board unless there is a review process somewhere else. I've posted on this before so will not repeat here beyond summarizing as moving responsibility for the problem does not fix the problem. I'm not seeing how this proposal fixes the problem either.

RE: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Chip is correct. The tools we use in board meetings make it easy for us to see how many PMC members in a TLP resolution are members. If there are not enough we will sometimes put the project on an informal watch list (as well as ensuring appropriate people from the PMC go on the members watch

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: An addition of the overseeing committee, will shield the board from *some* of the day-to-day business of telling the pTLP that something needs to be fixed. Is this pretty close to IPMC in another name? No it isn't.

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org wrote: One extra thing to note, that while we can *start* this comittee as dedicated to Incubating projects, it will be a very natural extension to get it involved in monitoring all of TLPs, not just pTLPs. What problem

RE: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
An ASF release needs three binding +1 votes (I see you say two but in your proposal but that would require a policy change in the ASF which I doubt will happen). If there is only a single mentor approaches the IPMC to ask for those votes. As a single active mentor on projects I have both asked

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Chip is correct. The tools we use in board meetings make it easy for us to see how many PMC members in a TLP resolution are members. If there are not enough we will sometimes put the project on an

Re: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Branko Čibej
On 08.01.2015 05:30, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Some podlings are graduating w/ no clear understanding of the Apache Way. What is The Apache Way? No one can say. There is no bounded set of expectations that an Apache

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:18:59PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote: Retiring the role of Champion sounds like an idea whose time has come. We gave the Champion additional oversight responsibilities a while back -- but how many times since then has having that additional layer made a difference?

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:20:40PM -0800, Henry Saputra wrote: +1 I would recommend to remove that particular line about mentor staying as mentor sake. Either mentors join in as full fledge PMC (and as committer) or not at all. +1, with the one comment that I've heard the board(s) review a

RE: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
WTF? There have been presentations about the apache way at every ApacheCon for about 15 years (twice in most years). I personally give 5-10 such presentations a year (sometimes public sometimes not). I'm sure many others here do the same. The Apache Way is really simple. There are very few

Re: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Branko Čibej br...@apache.org wrote: On 08.01.2015 15:32, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: The two mentor minimum is critical. I was going to make it three but reasoned that if two were active, they could do the job. Why? I've not yet seen a single argument that would

RE: proposal: mentor re-boot

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Yes, Benson. You should take it as a compliment that if the board invite you to do remain and you agree then they trust you to be their eyes and ears, and if necessary the person they turn to in order to investigate a potentially issue. That's different from the mentor role in the IPMC though.

RE: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
To be clear my email was not targeted at Marvin. We all know how hard Marvin has worked to create the clear policy documents I talk about here. I hope Marvin knows me well enough to recognize my debating style. This is not about *him* it's about the impression of the top down rules you describe

Re: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: To be clear my email was not targeted at Marvin. We all know how hard Marvin has worked to create the clear policy documents I talk about here. I hope Marvin knows me well enough to recognize my

Re: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/8/15, 10:49 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: top down rules you describe below - as you seem to be implying that should not exist in the Apache Way apart from a few immutable areas and I agree. But what are the few immutable areas? Why isn’t there a link

Re: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread David Nalley
Members should look to the board to enforce policy, not define it (Though Directors are members and will be involved with the definition) This disagrees with much that the Foundation has published. In example: The membership of the ASF elects the 9 member board to run the foundation and to

RE: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Years ago I started creating a signpost site over on http://community.apache.org which was intended provide a simplified gateway to our copious documents that describe the Apache Way in all its glory. Since then a few people have contributed to it. Our goal is to keep it simple, leave the

[jira] [Created] (INCUBATOR-128) Wrong email address in sample PPMC invitation email

2015-01-08 Thread Julian Hyde (JIRA)
Julian Hyde created INCUBATOR-128: - Summary: Wrong email address in sample PPMC invitation email Key: INCUBATOR-128 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-128 Project: Incubator

RE: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
It's process vs. culture. We shouldn't get hung up on process. Our bylaws (as a foundation) dictate that the board set the formal policies. This is pretty much a requirement of the way we have to be structured to get 501c(3) status. Someone needs to be accountable. So, yes, the board votes on

RE: What is The Apache Way?

2015-01-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Sorry I seem to have deleted a para from the below when editing for send. The para was also on this site you will find http://community.apache.org/speakers/slides.html which has decks from different people with titles like): •Open Innovation in The Apache Software Foundation •Writing and