Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Parser

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Stein
On May 31, 2012 5:31 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... (that said, I agree: this seems like it should be a proposal to Commons, so we just need to handle that redirection) And I didn't read the proposal closely enough, but took from Ralph's comment that this was some Java code

Re: Mentor cleanup

2012-05-12 Thread Greg Stein
Hey Jukka, In your series of reviews, Bloodhound never showed up. Shall I presume that means we're fine by your measures? Thanks, -g On May 2, 2012 12:48 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, To a large extent the Incubator relies on the efforts of our mentors to help

Re: [DISCUSS] BOM and supported platforms for Bigtop 0.4.0

2012-05-08 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Bruno Mahé bm...@apache.org wrote: ... It seems that we're talking about this location: http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/bigtop/bigtop-0.3.0-incubating/ Again, we don't distribute non-Apache software, I didn't find any non-Apache software in the location

Re: [DISCUSS] BOM and supported platforms for Bigtop 0.4.0

2012-05-08 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Bruno Mahé bm...@apache.org wrote: First, thank you very much for taking the time to write a thoughtful reply. On 05/08/2012 02:08 PM, Greg Stein wrote: ... as well as we don't distribute other Apache software either. I found a bunch of Apache software

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Greg Stein
wrote: On 5/4/2012 1:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: In the Board agenda, we have a line where each Director can state they have reviewed the report (before the meeting). They can also append queries and comments. Little mini-discussions kinda happen in those comments. Point here is: provide

Re: [DISCUSS] BOM and supported platforms for Bigtop 0.4.0

2012-05-07 Thread Greg Stein
On May 7, 2012 11:57 AM, Owen Oapos;Malley omal...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Now (again IIUC) the interesting bit is whether it's better for BigTop to be repackaging and -distributing upstream components by itself, or if

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Stein
In the Board agenda, we have a line where each Director can state they have reviewed the report (before the meeting). They can also append queries and comments. Little mini-discussions kinda happen in those comments. Point here is: provide a similar location for IPMC members (including shepherds)

Re: [DISCUSS] BOM and supported platforms for Bigtop 0.4.0

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Stein
On May 4, 2012 2:03 PM, Patrick Hunt ph...@apache.org wrote: ... EOD existing Apache rules/license make no such distinction. Works under the following licenses may be included within Apache products (includes ASL). Can people please stop using ASL or APL? No such thing. It is the Apache

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: ... The resulting TODOs are (see also the May2012 wiki page):  - jukka:     Airavata, Droids, SIS, Wookie, Zeta Components  - rgardler:  Amber, PhotArk  - mfranklin:

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Stein
On May 2, 2012 8:10 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... I don't imagine the bucketing to be enshrined in written process, or even be fixed. More of a convenience. We might do it by, for example, asking Shepherds to identify the projects they would *prefer* to shepherd and

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On May 2, 2012 5:57 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... Stated interests, and cross-community awareness are at odds with each other. The Board

Re: Question RE a non-ASF hosted project requiring contributors to have a signed ICLA submitted to the ASF

2012-04-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Apr 20, 2012 10:06 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Stephen Connolly ... since my eventual intent is to bring this project into the ASF (once I have sufficient community to bring it in that is! ;-) ) Community size and activity are

Re: [PROPOSAL][RFC] CloudStack for the Apache Incubator

2012-04-08 Thread Greg Stein
On Apr 8, 2012 4:56 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: ... I believe the proposal is now complete, pending additional feedback. These touch up changes pretty much complete the proposal and we're ready to kick off a [VOTE] thread. Thoughts? +1 Discussion has been mellow.

Re: CloudStack Incubation proposal

2012-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
And we could simply ignore all this, as there was never any actual intent to assume an analogous situation. It was a flip comment. That's all. Please stop reading more into things, and escalating discussions. Have fun. Move along. -g On Apr 4, 2012 11:47 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din

Re: CloudStack Incubation proposal

2012-04-03 Thread Greg Stein
It was a joke. Let it go... On Apr 3, 2012 1:57 PM, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: On 03.04.2012 19:09, Jim Jagielski wrote: Now let's see who complains and says we're fragmenting the cloud community or whatever... Where's Simon? :) Please, as far as I know the community

Re: [PROPOSAL][RFC] CloudStack for the Apache Incubator

2012-04-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 21:37, David Nalley da...@cloudstack.org wrote: ... For better or worse I don't perceive ASF having the desire to or currently the ability to deal with filing for patents, or even if they would be entitled to in this situation. I'm not sure that we have a *specific*

Re: AOO LICENSE/NOTICE files

2012-03-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Mar 20, 2012 9:54 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: Greets, As noted below, the AOO LICENSE and NOTICE files are in what seems to me to be an unusual configuration. I'm not planning on voting -1

Re: [VOTE][IPMC] Graduate RAT as Apache Creadur Project

2012-03-20 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) I am concerned about the choice of Robert for VP given his (self-stated) very little time available at the keyboard. The VP cannot simply spend 30 minutes on a report and be done for the quarter. The Chair is the project liaison in both directions, and that usually takes 5-10

Re: IP Clearance? NAK

2012-03-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 20:52, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 3/1/2012 4:17 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:20 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Perhaps you are signing up to do that ip-clearance, since it doesn't seem to be coming from the committer. IP

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 4:15 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org wrote: On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:13:30 AM Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: Hi Daniel... On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 28, 2012 9:02 AM, Ate Douma a...@douma.nu wrote: ... That sounds reasonable and hopefully easy to do (if not this case might even be more worrisome then). I'm not really sure though if Apache Extras is an appropriate location either. I think Apache Extras intends to convey an affiliation

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 7:32 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Greg... On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... They remain. Keeping them is the right thing for our community and product. That is our determination, and is our Right

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:07 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... They remain. Keeping them is the right thing for our community and product. That is our determination, and is our Right. Sorry but I don't think

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:31 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Greg... On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ... I gave it more thought and IMO, I think we should raise the issue to the Board to get to some results, Raise what issue? I

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:45 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: ... OK do we have the right to create any kind of package or class under com.cloudera (or any other companies packages)? I'd like to approach it by answering this question. Because if we look at it like this then we'll

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:34 AM, Ian Dickinson i...@epimorphics.com wrote: On 29/02/12 10:02, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest that we take this from a Sqoop instance to be a discussion on rules them selves. I would like to start a [VOTE]

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
The vote closed a day or two ago, passing with all +1's. (fyi) On Feb 29, 2012 2:48 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Niall On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Arvind Prabhakar

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
even if they didn't sue us yet, I guess they could force us to drop those packages at any time. LieGrue, strub - Original Message - From: Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS

Re: Licence headers in template files

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 6, 2012 11:41 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: ... Perhaps the answer to Why is a licensing header necessary? http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-whyheader is relevant here. The README file is generally not going to be modified - or seen in isolation - so it's not so

Re: Licence headers in template files

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 13:18, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Feb 6, 2012 5:26 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 6, 2012 11:41 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: ... Perhaps the answer to Why

Re: Nomination of Chris Mattman for the IPMC Chair (was: Re: NOMINATIONS for Incubator PMC Chair)

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 00:58, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: ... And to be honest, even if you (Bill) or the board folks think that there should be an Incubation VP, are you willing to at least try it my way, and then if all hell breaks loose, simply add the role

Re: Incubator, or Incubation?

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
might want to break this down into a couple of distinct topic threads for simplicities sake. Anyways, just one commment; On 2/2/2012 10:56 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Greg Stein wrote: I can easily see a small group of people maintaining that overall status

Re: Time to vote the chair?

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 2, 2012 11:20 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hi Benson, I wouldn't have much problem with this, so long as I make it clear that my intention isn't to remain in the position for longer than one month, two months, whatever it takes to move towards

Re: Evolution instead of a revolution (Was: Time to vote the chair?)

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 14:04, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 2/3/2012 12:51 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: So that everyone affected by these proposals has the opportunity to engage in the discussion, I recommend that we pull these out of e-mail for a while and ask

Re: Incubator, or Incubation?

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
I believe there is a minor typo below: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:00, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:19 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 2/3/2012 11:11 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator

2012-02-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 08:56, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ... I have no problem with someone starting out as a mentor. *I* started out as a mentor not too long ago. But as an IPMC member, I'd like to know the experience profiles of mentors. I think there are better ways to

Re: Giving podlings enough time to report [Fwd: Incubator PMC/Board report for Feb 2012 ([ppmc])]

2012-02-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:30, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi, I would like to point out that a reminder on the day the report is due is NOT plenty of time. While the *reminder* may not have given you much time, note that podlings should already know their requirements and due

Re: Giving podlings enough time to report [Fwd: Incubator PMC/Board report for Feb 2012 ([ppmc])]

2012-02-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 14:40, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ... There is no announcement. The calendar is set well in advance:  repos/committers/board/calendar.txt OK. With this and the script, I guess you would say that patches are welcome ;-) Nah. I hate that phrase. It is

Re: Incubator, or Incubation?

2012-02-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 21:22, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hi Bill, On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ...  VP Project Incubation works with those Champions.  Much like the foundation-wide security@a.o team works with all the individual

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:58, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hi Guys, On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:17 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: Oh, so you want a supermajority in terms of those who have voted, not in terms of the membership of the IPMC?  Not unreasonable.  Let's

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:18, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Any other rational opinions? I don't recall a case where a candidate was not elected because of an unnecessarily strict -1. All I'm

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:20, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Greg Stein wrote on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:12:50 -0500: In that light, we're talking about what kinds of voting results should be forwarded by the Chair? If the Chair sends a request to the Board to add somebody

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread Greg Stein
+1 I've never liked vetoes for this. One person can hold an entire PMC hostage simply for disliking someone (or worse: subtle corporate concerns masked otherwise). People have said in the past, you should have veto so you're not forced to work with somebody you dislike. I respond, grow up. we

Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes

2012-01-30 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 23:53, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: It is clear that with all the turmoil of late and people lightly tossing around -1's that the notion of having veto authority over personnel matters makes little sense on

Re: on peer review

2012-01-18 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 17, 2012 11:03 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: ... I'd like to someday even see mentors show enough respect and humility for their peers in the group to seek out their counsel in situations they have never encountered before, so that we all can provide some input

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 10, 2012 9:30 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: There is no fork in the current plan, so this discussion is moot anyways. There have been tons of long emails on this proposal and i haven't read them all

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:20, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...Ignore the proposal. It is out of date, since the podling has

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 22:59, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: ... This sounds more and more like an example of Fascination of the Apache brand, as a lever for commercial interest. I agree with Roy that this is bad taste, and I wish WANdisco simply makes a commercial derivative, OR

Re: Actively retiring projects (was: Incubator Board Report November 2011)

2012-01-09 Thread Greg Stein
Since this thread has come back to life, I read through it and have one comment to add: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 20:27, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ... I can see two problems with this view to begin with. One is IP management. The more people participate in a project and the

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 9, 2012 10:03 PM, Roy T. Fielding field...@gbiv.com wrote: ... And, no, the discussion has not been with the Trac community -- it was in private with a few individuals; as far as Apache is concerned, it never happened. And Oracle's private conversations, and their decisions regarding

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 7, 2012 4:24 PM, Roy T. Fielding field...@gbiv.com wrote: ... The original developers are not ambivalent to this fork. Untrue. Christian and Remy are, and always have been, supportive. They were the ones to suggest the fork, rather than trying to make the changes in trunk. What you have

Re: Oversight of non-mailinglist-ful podlings

2012-01-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 14:33, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Someone created https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/?p=1227271 before the devicemap-commits@ list was created.  I expect no list received a commit mail about it. This PMC may want to review

Re: Oversight of non-mailinglist-ful podlings

2012-01-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 4, 2012 4:01 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 January 2012 19:45, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 14:33, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Someone created https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/?p=1227271 before

Re: Oversight of non-mailinglist-ful podlings

2012-01-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 4, 2012 7:50 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 14:45:24 -0500: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 14:33, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Someone created https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/?p

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 3, 2012 2:30 AM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Jan 2, 2012 10:51 PM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Greg, I do not care one bit how much commit activity happens at Trac. As long as there is some

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Stein
, strub - Original Message - From: Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: I think

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 3, 2012 11:48 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... A PMC I am on had this exact conversation with board members several months ago regarding a code base the project is dependent on that is housed outside the ASF which we were considering bringing in as a subproject.

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 3, 2012 1:28 PM, Kalle Korhonen kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: So the generic policy is there is no generic policy, and instead there is appropriate application of judgement to specific cases. Generic policy

Re: Q. Forks without concensus?; A. anytime / depends / never without agreement

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 15:13, ralph.goers @dslextreme.com ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On 01/03/2012 07:35 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: [1] I don't see it as our place to *judge* communities. If it is a fork,    

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 06:34, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Hyrum K Wright hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com wrote: The Incubator proposal was publicized and discussed on trac-dev *simultaneously* with the discussion on general@incubator, and the

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2012-01-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 2, 2012 10:51 PM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Greg, I do not care one bit how much commit activity happens at Trac. As long as there is some kind of active community it is improper to fork it without their permission. Eh? You ever read the rules for revolutionaries

Re: [VOTE] Flex to join the Apache Incubator

2011-12-27 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) On Dec 27, 2011 4:51 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi Incubator PMC members (*), I've just reviewed the [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator thread and I think all relevant issues have been adressed now. I have added Anne and Dave Fisher as mentors,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-22 Thread Greg Stein
On Dec 22, 2011 5:05 AM, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: ... I know this message is very long, but I think these topics need some clarification. Honestly? My read of your message(s) is, let's ask for so much stuff at the start, that this podling/community can never even get

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-22 Thread Greg Stein
On Dec 22, 2011 8:28 AM, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: But as Bertrand has said, I've raised the questions to early in the process. Yeah... possibly I'm just reading it as obstruction, when the honest intent is awareness for the future podling. My apologies. Cheers, -g

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 15:30, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: ... 2) Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) In November 2006 Adobe open source the Flash Player Script engine: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html Is the source code of Tamarin still the current

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Stein
I'd prefer to see Apache Flex voted on by itself, without tying the contribution to Falcon. I suspect there are more than enough people who are willing to have a go atbthisbwithout Falcon. Let's not strive for a perfect contribution from Adobe, and miss an opportunity for an excellent

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-19 Thread Greg Stein
Hoo hoo!! Look at that committer list! Great stuff. Happy to see this finally land. Big +1! On Dec 19, 2011 3:21 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to propose Flex to be an Apache Incubator project. Here's a link to the proposal:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-19 Thread Greg Stein
Agreed. That is/was my read, too. On Dec 19, 2011 6:48 PM, ralph.goers @dslextreme.com ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: I don't read it that way. Yes, ASF projects only contain individuals, but most of those individuals are employed and are in some way influenced by their employer. Calling

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Dec 19, 2011 1:55 PM, Hyrum K Wright hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com wrote: It seems discussion on Bloodhound has died down, so it's time to call a VOTE. Please vote on the acceptance of Bloodhound into the Apache Incubator. The proposal is available at [1] and its content is also included

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Bloodhound

2011-12-14 Thread Greg Stein
== * Hyrum Wright * Greg Stein == Sponsoring Entity == The Apache Incubator

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Bloodhound

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Dec 12, 2011 3:12 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Hyrum K Wright hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com wrote: By it's own recognition, however, the development community surrounding Trac has largely dissipated, with little mailing list

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Bloodhound

2011-12-10 Thread Greg Stein
@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: Mark Struberg; Ian Wild; Greg Stein; hwri...@apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Bloodhound On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Uh, here's the TRAC License: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki

Adobe revises Flex's future ... at the Apache Software Foundation - The H Open Source: News and Features

2011-11-16 Thread Greg Stein
Heads up on some incoming proposals. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Adobe-revises-Flex-s-future-at-the-Apache-Software-Foundation-1380242.html NOTE: and yes, Adobe is doing this right: they say they are crafting *proposals*. All is good here; I'm just giving some heads-up since I hadn't

Re: manage the ReportingSchedule

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:26, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: David Crossley wrote on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 19:00:58 +1100: This reporting stuff is getting harder to manually manage. We now have sixty (yes 60) podlings currently in incubation. Can anyone see a way to improve this

Re: Confusion: Sponsoring entity and Champions

2011-09-25 Thread Greg Stein
Board sponsorship equates to mandate: the Incubator PMC has no choice in the matter. We used that for getting an Apache-licensed J2EE server (Geronimo), but we did *not* for OOo. We left that decision to the IPMC. I believe the concept is obsolete and can be removed from the docs. I do not forsee

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:34, Doug Meil doug.m...@explorysmedical.com wrote: Hi there- I thought the email chain prompted by my questions had a gracious and productive ending several days ago, but if you would like to start this up again, ok. No... Knowing Noel, he was not opening

Re: [PROPOSAL] Accumulo for the Apache Incubator

2011-09-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Sep 4, 2011 3:41 AM, Bernd Fondermann bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com wrote: ... So, you are saying more than 10% of the non-generated code base (and you are not counting lib-style uses/JARs here, right?) is derived from other Apache code? That seems to be unusual. Just curious, could you

Re: [VOTE] Retire Bluesky Podling

2011-07-01 Thread Greg Stein
I concur with Craig's thoughts. +1 to retire (binding). On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 19:27, Craig L Russell craig.russ...@oracle.com wrote: +1 for retiring Bluesky I believe that the Bluesky project is well-intentioned but just doesn't belong at Apache. The coders do not use mail lists for

Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Lists are now available: ooo-{dev,commits,issues,notifications,private}@incubator.apache.org Thanks, Joe! Subscribed. The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already submitted an ICLA and account

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 10, 2011 9:03 AM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: ... [ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation [ ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation [ ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation +1 (binding)

Re: Vote plans for OOo proposal

2011-06-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 9, 2011 9:29 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: sa3r...@gmail.com wrote on 06/09/2011 12:00:22 PM: If any of this is unclear or if I got anything wrong, please speak up. Presumably the wiki locks, if not physically, then at least by convention, when the call for a vote has been

Re: Remediation ...

2011-06-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 9, 2011 11:16 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: ... It still leaves something you can't answer though: whether it is Rob's understanding of IBM's intention to camouflage such changes or to flag them all openly and clearly. Ultimately with a suite of 8+ million

Re: This list is for how not why?

2011-06-08 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:27, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: Khirano, I just noticed your mail never received a response. Sorry for that, reply online... Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 6 Jun 2011, at 18:02, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: It

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
Besides the content Oracle owns, it seems we could just ask the other owners to give the CWS's to the ASF. I mean, really... *somebody* out there holds the copyright. We just have to determine who, and then ask. Some definite legwork, but it seems doable. On Jun 7, 2011 10:15 AM, Simon Phipps

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 7, 2011 3:01 PM, Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op 7-6-2011 22:37, William A. Rowe Jr. schreef: On 6/7/2011 3:17 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote: The OpenOffice.org installation packages contain code from a considerable number of external libraries (i.e. third party ones that are

Re: Questions for the cheap seats. - Priming the Pump

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
and need a do-over. It is not about leaving the incubator or anything.  I think of it as baked prudence with a sauce of transparency.  I'm surprised this is a problem, but then I are a simple man ... .  - Dennis -Original Message- From: Greg Stein [mailto:gst...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Whatever. This is just not a concern. Please end this thread. There is no problem, so this is just noise. -g On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 00:44, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Hey. Feel free to spin your theories. It just isn't possible to divide markets around ALv2 code. On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 03:10, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: Am 06.06.2011 08:22, schrieb Greg Stein: This is just not a concern. Please end this thread. There is no problem, so

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Bah. It is solving a nonexistent problem. Sit back, and enjoy life instead. On Jun 6, 2011 6:59 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2011 11:34, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote: IMHO - if there is any such risk - we 1) should both help the regulators understand

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: ... And the natural extension is that if there is no home for the OOo code with Apache where will it end up? That scenario is not without risk either. As I've said elsewhere, I would lobby our Board for an unsupported tarball of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:17, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 18.06: The reality is that IBM employees wearing their IBM hats, have made it  crystal clear on the general@incubator list that IBM is going to force  The

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:46, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-06 18.36: ... The software grant is a done deal. I happen to believe the proposal will be accepted, but it is not a done deal. Ah, okay - so the software grant exists independent

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:37, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 11:26, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org  wrote: On 6/6/11 10:41,

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:08, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 6 Jun 2011, at 19:03, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: ... However, it seems to me that October and November are still rather far off, and with the wealth of conferences over the next two months, perhaps we could set something up

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:18, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:08, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 6 Jun 2011, at 19:03, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: ... However, it seems to me

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:17, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 13:50, Greg Stein wrote: ... How about we drop these lines of discussion, and simply follow Ross' advice and focus on what is needed by the Incubator PMC to accept this proposal? While I agree that a lot

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:31, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Le 6 juin 11 à 20:21, Greg Stein a écrit : On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:18, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: I'll surrely can make it to the US if needed. OSCON is good, but would like to know

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:04, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: It's just a meeting between colleagues.  If all it does is break a little of the entrenched ice I'd call it a success. Sure beats email for dealing with emotions/trust. Right. And we can also be optimistic that the

RE: OO/LO License + Why LO needs the AFL 2.0 to exist (quickly)

2011-06-05 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 4, 2011 6:25 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: ... 2. With regard to building distributions, binary libraries are terribly awkward unless Apache were to limit its OpenOffice project to a single platform and programming model. In contrast, LibreOffice is going full-up

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-05 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 15:20, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: ... Just to drag the point here from the other thread where it was made, the problem is less the size of the code (although it is enormous and will make a great stress test for the SVN team :-) ) and more the need for frequent

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