Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-12-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Nov 18, 2007 12:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...Here's an attempt to summarize our recent discussions, and suggest > some actions. Comments are welcome, of course Just want to note that I have not forgotten about these discussions, just didn't have time yet to su

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-25 Thread Matt Hogstrom
On Nov 23, 2007, at 3:10 AM, ant elder wrote: Ask people to self nominate - I imagine often inactive commiters won't put themselves forward, removing any issue. Then maybe a review of the list by the the mentors and proposed PMC Chair. If there are issues it can be discussed in the commun

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-23 Thread Paul Fremantle
> > > That sounds reasonable but is it ok to do that? Its quite hard to remove > a > > committer from a real Apache project, are incubating committers > different > > and its ok to just ask who wants to be included at graduation? > I think that is a viable option to make a clear division between i

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Nov 23, 2007 9:10 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 7:09 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ask people to self nominate > That sounds reasonable but is it ok to do that? Its quite hard to remove a > committer from a real Apache project, are incubati

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-23 Thread ant elder
On Nov 22, 2007 7:09 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 9:14 PM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would agree with reviewing committers at graduation, but how do we > > > implement that? > > > > I would say that this depends on the judgment of the

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-22 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Nov 22, 2007 8:09 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...Or re-elect all committers before graduation?... > ...Ask people to self nominate... Good idea, that's probably the easiest way of addressing that concern. -Bertrand ---

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-22 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> Ask people to self nominate - I imagine often inactive commiters won't > put themselves forward, removing any issue. Then maybe a review of the > list by the the mentors and proposed PMC Chair. If there are issues it > can be discussed in the community and if theres disagreement then > vote. I im

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-22 Thread Paul Fremantle
> > Btw would people have interest in a small script that would analyze a > given > project history and give stats on commits and who committed? I've built > something similar for infra [1] and such reports could be useful to the > IPMC > when a podling starts talking about graduation. I'm not sure

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-22 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Nov 20, 2007 9:14 PM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would agree with reviewing committers at graduation, but how do we > > implement that? > > I would say that this depends on the judgment of the mentors, and it > is probably more important to evaluate the role they would be p

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-20 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> I would agree with reviewing committers at graduation, but how do we > implement that? I would say that this depends on the judgment of the mentors, and it is probably more important to evaluate the role they would be playing in the project once it is over to Apache, than what happened before en

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Nov 19, 2007 8:05 PM, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...Some of the discussion here to me seems to be backward: adding > constraints to the entry of a podling to the incubator... Agreed, we shouldn't add more constraints than needed. > ...A couple of additional comments below...

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: Some of the discussion here to me seems to be backward: adding constraints to the entry of a podling to the incubator. I'd hope that we could get podlings, including all of their current community, into the incubator and then actively mentor/monitor its activities to

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi, Some of the discussion here to me seems to be backward: adding constraints to the entry of a podling to the incubator. I'd hope that we could get podlings, including all of their current community, into the incubator and then actively mentor/monitor its activities to promote diversity

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Nov 19, 2007 10:23 AM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Same here. I think a good way to address the "short way to > committership" > > problem is to make sure people really committed consistently during the > > lifetime of the poddling when the project effectively graduates. > >

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> Same here. I think a good way to address the "short way to committership" > problem is to make sure people really committed consistently during the > lifetime of the poddling when the project effectively graduates. There's something to say for that, though I think you should take activity on the

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Nov 19, 2007 9:05 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Nov 18, 2007 1:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating > projects > > People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly i

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Nov 18, 2007 1:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating projects > People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly incubating > project do not get their commit rights via the normal ASF meritocrac

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 11/19/07, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like the idea: discuss initial diversity among the Incubator PMC, > when a new project comes in, with the option of limiting the number of > initial non-ASF committers. But no hard rules on that. > > This might be easier to implement

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Nov 18, 2007 12:45 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 12:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating > > projects... > ...I think this throws a too wide a net. Wicket would not

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-18 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Nov 18, 2007 12:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating > projects > People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly incubating > project do not get their commit rights via the normal ASF meritocracy

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Lawrence Mandel
43 PM Please respond to general@incubator.apache.org To general@incubator.apache.org cc Subject Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement > 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating projects > People who were not A

Re: [DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating projects > People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly incubating > project do not get their commit rights via the normal ASF meritocracy > rules. > > We might want to limit the number of such commiters, to limit

[DISCUSS] Community diversity: current concerns and suggestions for improvement

2007-11-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Here's an attempt to summarize our recent discussions, and suggest some actions. Comments are welcome, of course. 1) We need better tools for Incubator PMC members to measure the community diversity of incubating projects, especially before graduation. Suggestion: -Require a "community diver