Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
This thread started as a discussion of Linux distros and trademarks. Perhaps I could try to return it there? If a distro takes a release of Apache X, compiles it with minimal changes that adapt it to the environment, and distributes it, I believe that it's a fine thing for them to call it simple A

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a LICENSE file at the top, I would think that this counts as a legal 'publication'

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-07 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Chase wrote: > Does "...based on Apache Hadoop" require a clear dependency notation as to > which versions of Apache component releases are part of the commercial > distribution? No, it cannot. Trademark law is not a matter of such distinctions, and our ve

Please remove me from the PMC

2015-07-16 Thread Benson Margulies
With the graduation of NiFi I depart, at least for now. Thanks for all the fish. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: Podling request: Gerrit

2015-07-15 Thread Benson Margulies
I've used crucible. It's horrible. And it comes from Atlassian, which means that infra@ is predisposed against it, as their general feeling is that the Atlassian products are very heavy. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr.

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Graduate NiFi from the Apache Incubator

2015-06-12 Thread Benson Margulies
Sean sure makes more sense than me. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Joe Witt wrote: > Sean is one of those folks i referred to. Id be an easy +1 > On Jun 12, 2015 9:24 AM, "Andrew Purtell" wrote: > >> As Sean says he's been engaged with the project while acting as mentor, >> IMHO beyond mento

Re: [DISCUSSION] Graduate NiFi from the Apache Incubator

2015-06-12 Thread Benson Margulies
Writing as a member and a mentor, I think that the NiFi podling will do fine without the 'usual' ASF member that Bertrand is asking about. However, because I think they'll do fine, I'll sign up if it makes people more comfy, secure in my belief that I will be a maytag repairman. On Fri, Jun 12, 2

Re: Request to create a new mailing list for apache nifi

2015-04-17 Thread Benson Margulies
I submitted the form, but I then need to replace myself with tkurc as a mod. Can I do that sans-jira? On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Joe Witt wrote: > Gavin, > > Appreciate your help. I am doing exactly what you asked and following > the trail of guidance. > > Thanks > Joe > > On Fri, Apr 1

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, James Carman wrote: > And that covers us from a legal standpoint? Is there anything > "special"' about this situation that makes this appropriate? There is nothing legal to cover here. Since all the code is AL 2.0, legally, we are fine. The grant is (a) a bit of

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Benson Margulies
If a single legal entity has the copyright, the entity makes a grant. If the code was built by a large community under the apache license, there's no one to make a grant. 'The community' expressing its desire to move to Apache is enough. This is an edge case of the principle that we only accept cod

Re: [DISCUSS] Groovy Incubation proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Benson Margulies
You may think that the discussion has died down, but perhaps recall the lesson of NiFi. Or not, it might not strike you as applicable. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: >>... Starting the vote on the propos

Re: [DISCUSS] Groovy Incubation proposal

2015-03-14 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: Perhaps you might consider asking Maven questions on a Maven list? If you peruse the Maven dev list, you'll find an ongoing conversation. > >> On 14 Mar 2015, at 00:13, Jochen Theodorou wrote: >> >> Am 13.03.2015 22:38, schrieb Stephen Con

Re: [DISCUSS] Groovy Incubation proposal

2015-03-13 Thread Benson Margulies
JimJag, for years, has written about the cultural implications of DVCS, and the email here supports what he's written. So I think we need to pay close attention. I think that we care about both PMC and committer inventory. I, for one, would not want to see an Apache project that restricted commit

Re: Soliciting feedback for a detailed pTLP policy document

2015-03-04 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > At this point, I would like to open this document for soliciting as > > wide a feedback as possible. I would like to especially request > > attention of the ASF board members who ask

Re: GPL Code in GitHub

2015-03-04 Thread Benson Margulies
An Apache project may not manage a codebase outside of Apache. Some people who happen to be members of an Apache community can maintain code outside of Apache, if they are very clear in distinguishing; it must not be a product of the project. See 'Apache Extras'. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Je

Re: "-incubator" in versions of podling maven artifacts

2015-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Since the only official release is the source release, perhaps that's the only place where we in fact need a policy? On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes > wrote: > >> I think formally the requirement is just that there is

Re: Software Grants for GitHub Projects...

2015-02-02 Thread Benson Margulies
m/tinkerpop/tinkerpop3/graphs/contributors > > > > On 02/02/2015 09:53 AM, Matt Franklin wrote: >> >> On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 8:09:43 AM Hadrian Zbarcea >> wrote: >> >>> On 02/01/2015 03:19 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-02-02 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > I missed a few important points in this thread last week, with which I > disagree: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> ...1) Draft a template resolution. Starting in the wiki is fine, but you'll >> want to

Re: Software Grants for GitHub Projects...

2015-02-01 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:12 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Sun Feb 01 2015 at 1:05:10 AM Alex Harui wrote: > >> >> >> On 1/31/15, 9:09 AM, "Benson Margulies" wrote: >> >> >On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matt Franklin >> > wrote

Re: Software Grants for GitHub Projects...

2015-01-31 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matt Franklin wrote: > On Sat Jan 31 2015 at 11:22:15 AM Benson Margulies > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:55 AM, James Carman >> wrote: >> > Are there guidelines for these "usual considerations"? >> &g

Re: Software Grants for GitHub Projects...

2015-01-31 Thread Benson Margulies
granting a license, but we also require that code that 'moves into' Apache some with some expression of positive intent on the part of the author/copyright owner. > > On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Benson Margulies > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:44 AM, James C

Re: Software Grants for GitHub Projects...

2015-01-31 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:44 AM, James Carman wrote: > Is there a "standard" within the incubator about how we go about > getting the appropriate forms filled out when we want to incubate a > project from GitHub? GitHub fosters a sort of fly-by contribution > model (and that's a good thing), but

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NiFI 0.0.1-incubating

2015-01-28 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:05 PM, jan i wrote: > +1 (binding) > > I am a bit confused about the mangling of license/notice files in respect > of the source/binary releases. > > Can I please ask you to make a clear distinction between source and binary > (which is not official ASF release) in the ne

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NiFI 0.0.1-incubating

2015-01-28 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 (binding) On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > +1 (binding) > > I checked (for both release artefacts): > - signatures and hashes all good > - incubating in source package name > - LICENSE and NOTICE good (but complex!) > - NOTICE has correct year > - no unexpected b

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera >> wrote: >>> In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque >> >> So you mean all TLPs should have status labels

Re: Practical next steps for pTLP experiment

2015-01-27 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > There are a few things that I would suggest for "next steps": > > 1) Draft a template resolution. Starting in the wiki is fine, but you'll > want to involve board@ when you have your first draft done. This will also > start the discussion among

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> ...They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we >> ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down > > I know how that works, it's just that with your

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-21 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 3:39 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: >>>

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-21 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < >> bdelacre...@apache.org > wrote: >>> How is that different from pruning the current IPMC membership by >>> removing inac

Re: When is an ICLA needed?

2015-01-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 20.01.2015 17:16, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: >> I agree with Bertrand. Note whoever commits the patch is doing so under >> their ICLA. > > Really? That can't be right: one can't become the author of a change > (and therefore can't

Re: Next steps for various proposals (mentor re-boot, pTLP, etc.)

2015-01-19 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm in the odd situation of not particularly wanting to argue in favor of the proposal I wrote, yet finding it hard to resist the provocation of messages that appear, to me, to misunderstand it. So I'll restrict myself to the following, and I won't reply to any further dispute. Anyone else is welco

Re: [pTLP] Apache Commons sub-mailing lists discussion

2015-01-16 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > Relating to IncubatorV2 and pTLP proposals - on Apache Commons I seem > to have spurred a discussion about making sub-mailing lists (And thus > forming sub-communities) - but keep the formalities on the general > list. > > (email below

Re: What is "The Apache Way"?

2015-01-13 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM, David Nalley wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Roman Shaposhnik > wrote: > >> I think a better analogy would be "US Culture". Yes it is as nebulous > >> as it gets, but the fact that US Constitut

Re: Clear expectations

2015-01-11 Thread Benson Margulies
Does it help anything to look at this, again, as failure modes? One failure mode is a project that emerges from the incubator showing, well, gross signs that it 'doesn't get it.' Another failure mode is that a group of people who really do get it, at the level of the broad principles, get into tr

Re: What is "The Apache Way"?

2015-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
The temperature of this might be reduced by replacing, 'no one knows what the Apache Way is' with 'a lot of us have trouble translate it into practical decisions in a repeatable fashion.' Or not. As reported here, we have performed multiple experiments in which multiple members, directors, and oth

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: 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 a

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: Podlings should be in charge of their mentors (was: Incubator report sign-off)

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Back in 2013, I suggested asking the Champion to accept a very clear level of reporting responsibility: to write a sentence or two _every month_ or find someone else to do it. That's one person whom I wanted to ask to sign up, for the duration of an incubation, to pay enough attention to be able to

Re: pTLP, concretely

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:04 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Benson Margulies >>> wrote

Re: pTLP, concretely

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> ...This scheme locates >> that responsibility in the renamed committee, which serves the board >> by supervising the pTLPs. They aren't

Re: pTLP, concretely

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > >>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:20 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >>>> >>>> For your reading and wrangling pleasure, I offer:

pTLP, concretely

2015-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
For your reading and wrangling pleasure, I offer: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorV2. The goal of this exercise is to turn the idea of the pTLP into a practical alternative. By 'practical', I mean: 'based on the constraints as I see them'; the board and comdev are not going to find a li

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-02 Thread Benson Margulies
Marvin, I did go away. I came back to help with a podling, and fell into a conversation started by discontented board members. You might push back on the board, formally, and challenge them to either officially be discontented or leave the iPMC alone. Me, I have an idea for a proposal that might m

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to raise a topic directly related to the succession. To start, three cheers for Roman for all his hard work! For all other projects in the Foundation, we say, 'The chair is just a clerk who facilitates communications with the board.' Here at the IPMC, we expect the chair to be moderator o

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Benson Margulies
mmenting on this thread to focus on it would >> > be that: arguing for potential downsides. >> > >> > With that, I'd like to thank all of my IPMC colleagues for >> > this great opportunity and wish all of you the Happiest >> > New Year! >> >

Re: Git write access for podlings

2014-12-31 Thread Benson Margulies
Every PMC member of a running PMC has a responsibility to keep an eye out for crazy commits. Once this is reflected in the doc, it's good practice for PPMC members. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:27 PM, John D. Ament > wrote: > >> On Wed Dec 31 2

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > +1 to everything Ross said below and I monitored that experiment > as well but was unaware of the 3 incidents, etc. > > As for pTLPs and shifting mentorship, etc., I trust Ross’s judgement > but think we need more data on this acro

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
ience Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++ > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Benson Margulies > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM > To:

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-30 Thread Benson Margulies
I plan to: 1. Ask the nifi community if they want to be experimental subjects. Can't expect IRB approval without it. 2. Write a proposal for the board to read. There are a number of details to worry over. Any suggestions about where to put it? There in no board wiki. Is there? 3. Submit a board

Re: Running an experiment with pTLP

2014-12-29 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Please note the change of subject. > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> On 12/19/2014 02:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: >>> >>> What it would do however if we simply did away with the notion of the >>> IPMC/In

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-29 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to look at this through a lens of failure analysis. How do podlings fail? I see two main patterns. 1. Failure to build a community. These are the podlings that we find adrift in space with the lights on but no one home on the mailing list. 2. Failure to build an _Apache_ community. These

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-19 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Are we top posting now? > > My comments below Ross’ > > >> On 19 Dec 2014, at 16:33, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> >> As a participant, I have two concerns about a player-mentor requirement. >> >> 1. Sustainability. In many ways, it is

Re: Incubator report sign-off

2014-12-19 Thread Benson Margulies
Back when I was trying to be the chair of this operation, we (ChrisM & I & others) had a lovely old food fight about Chris M's proposal. It seems to me that the fundamental situation as I saw it remains: this is a proposal to the board to dissolve the IPMC and replace it with something else. And ju

Re: Documentation of voting rules.

2014-12-02 Thread Benson Margulies
Apache PMCs, including the incubator PMC, operate by consensus except in a very small number of enumerated exceptional cases. So, the vote, I think, is a test of consensus. -1 votes block consensus until discussed to 0. There's no minimum number of +1 votes. I am always prepared to be corrected.

Re: Website for Tamaya - need help

2014-11-29 Thread Benson Margulies
ms build type' option? >> >>> >> >>> Drew >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Drew Farris >> >>> drew.far...@gmail.com >> >>> d...@apache.org >> >>> >> >>> >> &g

Re: Website for Tamaya - need help

2014-11-28 Thread Benson Margulies
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > https://infra.apache.org/officers/webreq I tried: Missing https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tamaya/site/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@i

Re: NiFi setup

2014-11-26 Thread Benson Margulies
I'll repair my work on the metadata. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:35 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > Group 2 is for groups podlings that started in months such as > November. First report would be December. > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >>

Re: NiFi setup

2014-11-25 Thread Benson Margulies
Starting with a December report makes sense. So, group changes too. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:27 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> Oh, that was not my smartest moment. Should I change the xml file to >> move out a mo

Re: NiFi setup

2014-11-25 Thread Benson Margulies
Oh, that was not my smartest moment. Should I change the xml file to move out a month? I don't think we've got something worth reporting. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:14 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> One message he

Re: SVN Access Rights question

2014-11-25 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > I suspect that only Roman and other VPs can do this. http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html seems to be claiming the contrary. > > > Regards, > Alan > > On Nov 25, 2014, at 10:23 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyon

Re: Incubator website guide

2014-11-24 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:24 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >>> Following http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html, I ran 'ant' (and

NiFi setup

2014-11-24 Thread Benson Margulies
One message here to make progress in public before we have NiFi mailing lists: I've added nifi to podlings.xml and I've created nifi.xml. I've opened INFRA-8706 for the mailing lists. I plan to write one other JIRA for a git repo; after that, we need discussion on the list to be sure of what we

Incubator website guide

2014-11-24 Thread Benson Margulies
Following http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html, I ran 'ant' (and also build.sh) after adding nifi to podlings.xml and added the nifi.xml fille. It didn't produce any changed files to commit. Is the guide behind? Am I confused?

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] accept NiFi into the incubator

2014-11-24 Thread Benson Margulies
The vote for NiFi incubation has passed. I will go start turning cranks. Nonbinding +1: Sean Busaby Brock Noland Ryan Blue Joey Echeverria Binding +1: Tim Williams Chris Mattmann Suresh Srinivas Chris Douglas John D Ament Benson Margulies Jake Farrell Andrew Purtell Bertrand Delacretaz

Re: [VOTE] accept NiFi into the incubator

2014-11-21 Thread Benson Margulies
tup to Github through INFRA. We request sponsor Benson Margulies (bimargulies) to assist with creating the INFRA ticket for this. === Issue Tracking === JIRA Ni``Fi (NIFI) === Initial Committers === * Brandon De``Vries , CLA confirmed * Jason Carey , CLA submitted * Matt Gilman , CLA confi

Re: [VOTE] accept NiFi into the incubator

2014-11-21 Thread Benson Margulies
n Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Benson Margulies > wrote: > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NiFiProposal has elicited a cheerful > and > > positive conversation, so I offer this vote. > > > > Vote will be open for the usual 72 hours ... > > > > Here is my [+1] > > >

[VOTE] accept NiFi into the incubator

2014-11-21 Thread Benson Margulies
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NiFiProposal has elicited a cheerful and positive conversation, so I offer this vote. Vote will be open for the usual 72 hours ... Here is my [+1]

Re: [PROPOSAL] NiFi for Incubation

2014-11-21 Thread Benson Margulies
I've advised Joe to 'asterix' the would-be mentors who are not iPMC yet, so that he can proceed to a vote on the base of the ones who are sooner rather than later, and the stragglers can be formally added to the metadata once they are on the iPMC.

Re: [PROPOSAL] NiFi for Incubation

2014-11-20 Thread Benson Margulies
We will be rapidly expanding the > > > >available documentation to cover things like installation, developer > > > >guide, frequently asked questions, best practices, and more. This > > > >documentation will be posted to the NiFi wiki at apache.org. > > > >

Initial import with git

2014-10-05 Thread Benson Margulies
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#initial-provenance has some svn specific commentary. If an incoming podling has a git repo, can it just be pushed into place as the starting point? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-

Re: Mentors heartbeat

2014-08-24 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:07 PM, jan i wrote: > On 24 August 2014 19:54, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > >> >> On Aug 24, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Alan D. Cabrera >> wrote: >> >> >>> I am not so sure if its worth while with the board report. >> > >> > What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Having

Re: Mentors heartbeat

2014-08-24 Thread Benson Margulies
Everyone who has ever mentored anything is a member of this PMC, except for those who have actually chosen to depart. In addition, we have PMC members who specialize in things like NOTICE files, but don't choose to mentor individual projects. In general, there is a mentor shortage. If you have a

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a Black Duck POC

2014-03-31 Thread Benson Margulies
During my, uh, tenure, as chair, I was unable to find any evidence of any actual work applied to IP clearance by the PMC as a group. People would post them up for lazy consensus, and the consensus, as far as any email evidence went, was in fact completely lazy. Is there anything this group wants to

Re: Hoya Proposal

2014-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
If you can work out a plan to do this directly in Hadoop, there's no need for the incubator. You just build and and contribute it in cahoots with them, and earn commit over there as you go. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > Mmmh, if i recall correctly this has come up i

Re: GSoC Donation and/or clearance

2014-01-09 Thread Benson Margulies
If the student provides it as a patch, then you are asking the usual question about the quantity of code. There is no hard and fast rule, but unless it's very large, the AL is very clear; patches sent to mailing lists or attached to issue tracking systems or any of that are covered by the AL. If th

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-10 Thread Benson Margulies
> > Therefore, when we say that incubating releases "can have small IP loose > ends", we mean: > > * This is an official release, created by an act of the Foundation. > * It is known to violate policy. > * It could be removed, but no one has done so yet. > > I'm comfortable with relying on "p

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-08 Thread Benson Margulies
My understanding is that incubating releases can have small IP loose ends, but not that they can proceed before the main clearance of an initial code donation. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Bernd Fondermann > wrote: > >> That was also m

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-17 Thread Benson Margulies
meone something at a point when they have some appreciation of what > they are joining, no? > > Upayavira > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013, at 01:24 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> Joining a PMC does not meaning being handed even one of the keys to >> the launch console for a nucl

Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards

2013-11-17 Thread Benson Margulies
Joining a PMC does not meaning being handed even one of the keys to the launch console for a nuclear missile. Joining a PMC means accepting responsibility for the supervision of a project. We vote to add someone to a PMC when they have shown the necessary commitment and, well, common sense. Part of

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 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: The podling initial committers issue

2013-09-27 Thread Benson Margulies
I think that all of this might boil down to the observation, way back in this thread, that there are different patterns of incoming projects. Some incoming podlings are very small groups of people. If they are paying attention, they know that attracting new people will be their biggest problem. In

Re: [VOTE] first milestone release of Apache Drill (incubating)

2013-09-18 Thread Benson Margulies
; created that will appear in the next release. > > Given that > > * the disclaimer is actually there, > > * this is a milestone release which should be supplanted by another release > in a month or two > > and > > * this will be fixed > > Would you reconside

Re: [VOTE] first milestone release of Apache Drill (incubating)

2013-09-18 Thread Benson Margulies
-1 binding. I don't see the standard disclaimer in any of the possible locations. In Maven, the standard disclaimer as a remote resource via org.apache:apache-incubator-disclaimer-resource-bundle. The text looks like: #if(${projectName})${projectName}#else${project.name}#end is an effort undergo

Re: [DISCUSS] PodlingBillOfRights

2013-06-18 Thread Benson Margulies
A simple alternative is 'expectation'. However, I have no problem with using it the way Joe wrote it. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I did read the topmatter, but I still felt it was a concern. It's not > just about mentors, that was just one example of a potential proble

Re: [PROPOSAL] Creation of the Incubator Ombudsman

2013-06-17 Thread Benson Margulies
A paradox: The VP is not supposed to exercise authority in normal circumstances. Projects are supposed to have mentors that advocate for them. If a project comes 'to the ombudsman', whether that's the VP or not, what can this person do? All they can do is bring the matter to the community. If it's

Change of Chair

2013-06-13 Thread Benson Margulies
Incubator community, I have tendered my resignation as VP, Incubator. The PMC has recommend Marvin Humphrey as my successor in a motion submitted to the Foundation board for consideration at the meeting next week. --benson - To

Re: June report

2013-06-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm off by a week. No buttoning until next week. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > I'll button it up in the middle of tomorrow some time. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: gen

June report

2013-06-07 Thread Benson Margulies
I'll button it up in the middle of tomorrow some time. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: Correct process for signing keys?

2013-06-02 Thread Benson Margulies
I think that the RM _must_ have a key, that the key must be part of a KEYS file in svn/git, and that it _should_ be uploaded into their Apache account, and it is more better if it is signed into the GWOT (global web of trust). - T

Re: Podling not Poddling

2013-05-30 Thread Benson Margulies
In fact, someone from Wales wants to rename them to be pronounced 'pothling'. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

How many people are supervising IP clearance?

2013-05-18 Thread Benson Margulies
A straw poll: how many people on this PMC scrutinized any of the recent three IP clearance transactions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.ap

Possible focal point: decision-making

2013-05-15 Thread Benson Margulies
If you look at proposals and email, you will notice that several people who disagree on many things agree that this group has trouble making decisions by consensus, due to size, diversity, and perhaps sheer orneriness. One possibility is to focus on the ideas in Bertrand's document that address de

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release Curator 2.0.0-incubating released

2013-05-12 Thread Benson Margulies
Also please remember that every release is supposed to go into the next month's board report. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > Sebb you are awesome and correct. > > But I have to say, I think that when we make suggestions to podlings, we > should make it clear that we are

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

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 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 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 wi

Re: May 2013 Report

2013-05-10 Thread Benson Margulies
; On May 10, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I wrote some text at the front. I plan to fill in things like PMC >> members coming and going tomorrow morning, and commit to svn. >> >> -

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