Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Sorry, for entering this late (too much travel makes it hard to keep up-to-date)... On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:38 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: I doubt we will get much help from the maven team to support this use case. They would rather get the

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-15 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 17:06 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Yes, it would be nice if Maven was more secure, properly checked signatures, and properly delegated namespaces so that third-parties would be unable to add artifacts within other org's trees. None of those issues are specific to

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-13 Thread James Carman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Paul Querna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, AFAIK, CPAN doesn't allow every CPAN author to overwrite the files of every other CPAN author. Thats the situation we are in now with the Maven Repository, because we just use the filesystem on people.apache.org as

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-13 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 09:23 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: And I am forced to agree as well... To be honest, I still at times question exactly the relationship between the ASF and Maven is. It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit quite a bit regarding ASF policies, but values the Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 09:23 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: And I am forced to agree as well... To be honest, I still at times question exactly the relationship between the ASF and Maven is. It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-12 Thread Paul Querna
Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Paul Querna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: [...] Until the Maven PMC stops abrogating its responsibility and addresses the issues, there does not appear to be anything that we can do about Maven's flaws short of banning

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I am forced to agree with Roy on these points. Until the Maven PMC stops abrogating its responsibility and addresses the issues, there does not appear to be anything that we can do about Maven's flaws short of banning use of the public

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Daniel Kulp wrote: Again, Are u stating that removing this restriction would have reduced the time taken to graduate from 2 years to 1 year? We'll never know. It certainly affected some of the features we concentrated on and thus may or may not have

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Hi Jim, It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit quite a bit regarding ASF policies, but values the Apache brand enough to tow the line. Did you mean Maven as Maven repo deployed @Apache or Maven the PMC? As Noel was talking specifically about the PMC. We can certainly ban Maven repo

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: Hi Jim, It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit quite a bit regarding ASF policies, but values the Apache brand enough to tow the line. Did you mean Maven as Maven repo deployed @Apache or Maven the PMC? As Noel was talking

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
but I don't think ASF policies apply to the architecture decisions (good or bad) and development direction of any given project. They don't. Sorry if that wasn't clear :) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Andrus Adamchik
The two are different things. I agree about the technical problem (and can add a dozen of other Maven-related things that drive me crazy as a user). I don't agree that ignoring this problem by the Maven folks constitutes a violation of some Apache policy. So let's approach it in an open

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: but I don't think ASF policies apply to the architecture decisions (good or bad) and development direction of any given project. They don't. Sorry if that wasn't clear :) Yep. That's where I was getting. You can ignore my last message

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Brett Porter
2008/7/11 Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But we could also say the fact that CXF is in the Incubator also prevented people from migrating, or discouraged attracting committers... I've heard that stated before and I think it's something the podlings should be keeping in mind. IMO, the

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Brett Porter
Hi Jim, 2008/7/11 Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And I am forced to agree as well... To be honest, I still at times question exactly the relationship between the ASF and Maven is. It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit quite a bit regarding ASF policies, but values the Apache brand

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Brett Porter
2008/7/12 Andrus Adamchik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So let's approach it in an open source way - try to persuade Maven committers to pay attention and/or contribute the code to fix the problem. Thanks Andrus - this is certainly the best thing anyone can do. It's unfortunate that there hasn't been

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Hi Jim, 2008/7/11 Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And I am forced to agree as well... To be honest, I still at times question exactly the relationship between the ASF and Maven is. It's no surprise that Maven chomps at the bit quite a bit

RE: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: There is no reason for a separate repository. [A separate repo] does not help protect users from incubator code, since users don't set the Maven configs that define which repos to use and which modules are dependencies. At best, what it does is add an irrelevant

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Angela Cymbalak
I think that I am in a unique position to comment on this question. I am sure there are a lot of legal things and the Maven repository that can be pointed to as reasons why not to have an Incubator but I have been very pleased with the fact that Apache *does* have the Incubator. It has been

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Querna
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: There is no reason for a separate repository. [A separate repo] does not help protect users from incubator code, since users don't set the Maven configs that define which repos to use and which modules are dependencies. At best, what it does is

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Angela Cymbalak wrote: I think that I am in a unique position to comment on this question. I am sure there are a lot of legal things and the Maven repository that can be pointed to as reasons why not to have an Incubator but I have been very pleased with the fact that Apache *does* have the

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Davanum Srinivas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Happy to confirm it was indeed a rant :) Just wanted folks to see all points of view before they cast their vote. Especially to at least understand why a particular feature was in place and think thru the pros and cons. thanks, dims William A.

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Querna
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: There is no reason for a separate repository. [A separate repo] does not help protect users from incubator code, since users don't set the Maven configs that define which repos to use and which modules are dependencies. At best, what it does is

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Aidan Skinner
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it just a IP Clearance SVN now once people have their way with no distinction at all between incubator and non-incubator code? What incentives are there left to graduate? How come a little bit of pain that makes

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the Maven repository situation has little to do with the need for an Incubator. Obviously you choose to pick out everying Ron's writing about the flaws in Maven / the Maven repository

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Paul Querna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: [...] Until the Maven PMC stops abrogating its responsibility and addresses the issues, there does not appear to be anything that we can do about Maven's flaws short of banning use of the public

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jukka, fwiw. My objection(s) had nothing to do with security. thanks, dims On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Jukka Zitting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Paul Querna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: [...] Until the Maven PMC stops abrogating its

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fwiw. My objection(s) had nothing to do with security. I was just responding to comments by Noel and Paul. Sorry for the tangent. BR, Jukka Zitting

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-09 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 9-Jul-08, at 4:42 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the Maven repository situation has little to do with the need for an Incubator. Obviously you choose to pick out everying Ron's

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Understood. Taking a bit out of the email: Such a dependency might be made somewhat invisible by transitive dependencies on incubating projects, but the problem is exactly the same if a non-incubating project depends on GPL stuff transitively. That's a Maven problem, not an incubator problem.

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Bertrand, Facts: - We have 11 failures so far in the incubator (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html) - We have had G PMC pick up the code from a failed incubation (Yoko) - We have disclaimers all over the place (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html) Any PMC that ships

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Dims, On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Any PMC that ships incubator developed code is responsible for what happens when a community does not form around the code base used. Any one outside Apache that ships incubator code should be totally aware

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Davanum Srinivas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok. Next we get rid of disclaimers everywhere? What purpose does that serve? - -- dims Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: | Hi Dims, | | On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | ...Any PMC that ships incubator

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Ok. Next we get rid of disclaimers everywhere? What purpose does that serve?... I don't see why we would get rid of disclaimers. -Bertrand Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: | Hi Dims, | | On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Davanum Srinivas
if one set of users never see them, why should everyone else? -- dims On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Ok. Next we get rid of disclaimers everywhere? What purpose does that

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Davanum Srinivas wrote: So can we figure out another way to make the end user make a conscious decision? I doubt we will get much help from the maven team to support this use case. They would rather get the central repo and get it done! What bugs me is that in this whole discussion, no one

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Apache isn't about 'community over code'. The code is just as important - if not more so. For Incubator releases, the releases aren't held to the same legal standard as releases from

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Apache isn't about 'community over code'. The code is just as important - if not more so. For Incubator releases, the releases aren't held to the same legal

RE: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: For Incubator releases, the releases aren't held to the same legal standard as releases from other PMCs. Huh? The only difference I know of is the possible presence of external dependencies on LGPL code, which is not a legal question at

[DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Sorry...Need to take this off my chest before the official VOTE. Looking at the maven repo thread, begs the question. Do we really need an incubator? Isn't it just a IP Clearance SVN now once people have their way with no distinction at all between incubator and non-incubator code? What

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Sorry...Need to take this off my chest before the official VOTE. Looking at the maven repo thread, begs the question. Do we really need an incubator? Isn't it just a IP Clearance SVN now once people have their way with no distinction at all

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry...Need to take this off my chest before the official VOTE. Good, thanks! It's best to have all relevant points discussed before voting. I'll wait at least a week after the last message on a related thread

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Dan, Seriously, Can you please give me one concrete instance where a user gave up because it was too hard? Again, Are u stating that removing this restriction would have reduced the time taken to graduate from 2 years to 1 year? We are *NOT* here to rubber stamp external code. Which is what we

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jukka, Yes, this is related. But i think folks have made up their mind about the repo. this is about the role of the incubator itself which is becoming over cumbersome and meaningless to many folks... thanks, dims On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Jukka Zitting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What incentives are there left to graduate? I don't think we have a problem with projects not graduating once they're ready. Yes, we've had to prod some projects to take that step, but generally that hasn't been an

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is, if Apache is about Community over code, why are we putting up barriers to getting the code if that is also creating barriers to building the community? Apache isn't about 'community over code'. The code

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Dims, I have to disagree. The releases that we allow incubating projects to make, with three +1s and a majority approval, are full Apache releases. They have been officially approved by the foundation and we are 100% responsible for their content. That's okay, because they also tend to

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Apache isn't about 'community over code'. The code is just as important - if not more so. For Incubator releases, the releases aren't held to the same legal standard as releases from other PMCs. Huh? The only difference I know of is the

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Roy, I see what you are saying... Do you agree that the intention is for the end user to pause for a second to understand what he/she is using and understand that there are some disclaimers etc that go along with a set of artifacts? Yes. may be this is the wrong way to enforce that intention.

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Carl Trieloff
From what I have seen many of the incubator releases have been better vetted than those from graduated projects. So I don't buy the argument. I also had to bite my tough on the maven thread.. I think it is mostly BS to give Java an easy route to publicity from inside incubator if no other

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Roy, I've created a JIRA here on the securing the artifacts request : http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3659 Thanks, dims PS: Seriously why can't the mvn issue tracker be inhouse and not at codehaus? :( On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dims, I have to

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? The only difference I know of is the possible presence of external dependencies on LGPL code, which is not a legal question at all. All legal issues are satisfied before we even let the code be imported, let alone

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Jul 7, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Dan, Seriously, Can you please give me one concrete instance where a user gave up because it was too hard? It falls into a few situations: 1) Without stuff in the main repo, you cannot do plugins that do things similar to the mvn

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Please see below: On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Daniel Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Dan, Seriously, Can you please give me one concrete instance where a user gave up because it was too hard? It falls into a few situations: 1)

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we really need an incubator?

2008-07-07 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Dims, On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry...Need to take this off my chest before the official VOTE. Thanks for this. ...Looking at the maven repo thread, begs the question. Do we really need an incubator? Isn't it just a IP Clearance SVN now