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

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

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 mentors, and it

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 incubating

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 playing

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

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 how

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

2007-11-20 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

2007-11-20 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

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 be an

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 than

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 meritocracy

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 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. There's

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

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

2007-11-18 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

[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

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 the

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

2007-11-17 Thread Lawrence Mandel
@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 ASF committers but come in via a newly