Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-18 Thread Matt Benson
On Jun 18, 2016 2:05 PM, "Gilles" wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:00:34 -0700, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Gilles >> wrote: >> >>> ... >>> I'm asking, again, whether I need to initiate a VOTE that would allow me >>> to set up a workspace ("git", etc.) and transfer

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-18 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:00:34 -0700, Ted Dunning wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Gilles wrote: ... I'm asking, again, whether I need to initiate a VOTE that would allow me to set up a workspace ("git", etc.) and transfer some code from CM over there. Nothing is stopping you from

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-18 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Gilles wrote: > ... > I'm asking, again, whether I need to initiate a VOTE that would allow me > to set up a workspace ("git", etc.) and transfer some code from CM over > there. > Nothing is stopping you from setting something up. Github is usually the easiest w

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-18 Thread Gilles
Hi. On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:01:20 -0700, Ted Dunning wrote: Gilles, Thanks for links. I just read that (long-winded) thread and I see no consensus that "Commons project is not being interested in hosting those components". In line with what I wrote previously, there isn't any consensus on

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-17 Thread Ted Dunning
Gilles, Thanks for links. I just read that (long-winded) thread and I see no consensus that "Commons project is not being interested in hosting those components". It may be that incubation is a good thing for Commons Math, but it doesn't seem valid to say that incubation is necessary because CM

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-17 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:51:36 -0700, Ted Dunning wrote: Excuse me? See inline. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gilles wrote: Hi all. On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:01:13 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: I thought this had been made clear. Several months Commons voted to make Math a TLP. But shortl

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-17 Thread Ted Dunning
Excuse me? See inline. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gilles wrote: > Hi all. > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:01:13 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> I thought this had been made clear. Several months Commons voted to >> make Math a TLP. But shortly after that most of the people involved >> with C

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-17 Thread Gilles
Hi all. On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:01:13 -0700, Ralph Goers wrote: I thought this had been made clear. Several months Commons voted to make Math a TLP. But shortly after that most of the people involved with Commons Math felt that a TLP at the ASF would not work for them, so they forked the project

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-15 Thread Ted Dunning
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:21 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > Yep absolutely. I don't think the incubator has ever rejected a project? > We have discouraged some submissions. But I have never seen a formal submission be denied.

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-15 Thread John D. Ament
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:17 PM Ted Dunning wrote: > Jochen, > > The need to build the community (nearly) from scratch is definitely NOT a > reason for rejection. It is simply a risk factor that must be mitigated to > succeed in incubation. > Yep absolutely. I don't think the incubator has ever

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-15 Thread Ted Dunning
Jochen, The need to build the community (nearly) from scratch is definitely NOT a reason for rejection. It is simply a risk factor that must be mitigated to succeed in incubation. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29 PM, John D. Ament > wrot

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > We generally expect some kind of backing community to bring this to. We > have seen pretty consistently that starting from an empty community doesn't > work. It doesn't mean that it's impossible, but very hard to do. Understood. On the o

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:06 PM, James Carman wrote: > That's what I figured. We could just go straight to TLP I suppose, if you > guys honestly don't think the Incubator would help. Is there any harm going > through the incubator? > No harm at all. It will increase visibility to a particularly

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread James Carman
That's what I figured. We could just go straight to TLP I suppose, if you guys honestly don't think the Incubator would help. Is there any harm going through the incubator? I don't want to reignite the "straight to TLP" debate. We honestly need some help/advice getting more folks involved. There h

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Ted Dunning
I don't think that there is a good definition of empty. The smaller the initial community, the larger the effort to bootstrap is the observation, but we don't really have a magic rule to apply. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:55 PM, James Carman wrote: > What do we consider "empty"? Is there some ob

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread James Carman
What do we consider "empty"? Is there some observed "critical mass"? Right now I believe we are 4 (to contribute), but they have had users for a long time. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:29 PM John D. Ament wrote: > Generally speaking, incubation is to nurture a community to adopting the > Apache Way

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:29 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > We generally expect some kind of backing community to bring this to. We > have seen pretty consistently that starting from an empty community doesn't > work. It doesn't mean that it's impossible, but very hard to do. > Frankly, the except

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread John D. Ament
Generally speaking, incubation is to nurture a community to adopting the Apache Way. This includes self governance, community growth and licensing policies. We generally expect some kind of backing community to bring this to. We have seen pretty consistently that starting from an empty community

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James Carman wrote: > We (the Commons PMC) have not decided yet what to do, but I just wanted to > gauge the interest in joining the math IPMC if we choose to go TLP by way > of the incubator. The idea would be that math (whatever its name may be), > would go thro

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Looking back through the discussion, it is a bit of a problem that one of > the major reasons given for the fork is that the team thought that they > didn't have a large enough PMC and that incubation wouldn't get them enough > additional contr

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Ted Dunning
Looking back through the discussion, it is a bit of a problem that one of the major reasons given for the fork is that the team thought that they didn't have a large enough PMC and that incubation wouldn't get them enough additional contributors. That made it seem like the project should go forward

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Ralph Goers
I thought this had been made clear. Several months Commons voted to make Math a TLP. But shortly after that most of the people involved with Commons Math felt that a TLP at the ASF would not work for them, so they forked the project and left, effectively voiding the TLP vote since the proposed

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
If you have a functioning community around Commons Math already, why do you feel you need Incubation? People on a Math TLP would come out of the Commons PMC and simply submit a Board Resolution, and I doubt that there would be any objects. There are no legal concerns, no community training, no nee

RE: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-11 Thread Martin Gainty
__ > From: ja...@carmanconsulting.com > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:12:48 + > Subject: Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC? > To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org; general@incubator.apache.org > > I meant PPMC, yeah. > > On Sat,

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-11 Thread James Carman
parties may need to come to > general-incubator to begin appreciating for themselves what is involved. > > > -Original Message- > > From: James Carman [mailto:ja...@carmanconsulting.com] > > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 03:26 > > To: Commons Developers List ; > >

RE: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
lto:ja...@carmanconsulting.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 03:26 > To: Commons Developers List ; > general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC? > > We (the Commons PMC) have not decided yet what to do, but I just wanted > to > gauge the interest

[ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-11 Thread James Carman
We (the Commons PMC) have not decided yet what to do, but I just wanted to gauge the interest in joining the math IPMC if we choose to go TLP by way of the incubator. The idea would be that math (whatever its name may be), would go through the incubator in order to enrich its community prior to bec