RE: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ok its been nearly a week and there is overwhelming support for doing this so I have gone ahead and made an update to the PPMC guide to reflect this [policy change]. Let's remember to add this to next month's Board report. --- Noel

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-18 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Craig L Russell craig.russ...@oracle.com wrote: Assuming that no one comes forward with a significant reason to disallow this, I'd just request that you not call a VOTE until you have an update to the incubator page that describes the process. In other words,

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-18 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 to the proposal. What makes me uneasy about this is that, notwithstanding the one mentor vote, we are basically saying that the bar for ASF committership can now be defined solely by a group of people who might have no knowledge, as yet, of the Apache way in general and the way

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 @ Benson, so if that only one vote is not there, the vote is not accepted. On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to the proposal. What makes me uneasy about this is that, notwithstanding the one mentor vote, we are basically saying that the bar

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread David Jencks
+1 (with the one required mentor/IPMC vote and notifying private@) david jencks On Nov 12, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Glen Daniels wrote: +1 from me. I also agree with Bertrand's point about notifying private@, and would be OK with requiring a (single) mentor/IPMC vote to ensure that someone is

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread Craig L Russell
Assuming that no one comes forward with a significant reason to disallow this, I'd just request that you not call a VOTE until you have an update to the incubator page that describes the process. In other words, let's DISCUSS and then VOTE on the change to the process page. Craig On Nov

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Craig... I think this is not a formal vote, it is like an acceptance vote before going into the formality of a real vote, so the voting thread is not full of a lot of *dicussion* e-mails which can drift the voting thread away from its purpose :). On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Craig L

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-17 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Mohammad Nour El-Din, On Nov 17, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: Hi Craig... I think this is not a formal vote, no disagreement it is like an acceptance vote no disagreement before going into the formality of a real vote, and before we go into a real vote we need

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-16 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: As Bertrand said, I'm ok with requiring at least one mentor voting and notice sent to private@ *afterwards*.  -- justin +1 to the combined proposal

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-16 Thread Matt Benson
On Nov 12, 2010, at 2:20 AM, ant elder wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from Incubator PMC members or

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-16 Thread Martin Cooper
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-16 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Martin Cooper mart...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from

RE: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-15 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from

[DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread ant elder
I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from Incubator PMC members or a separate Incubator PMC vote. As justification,

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 from me... Cheers, Chris On 11/12/10 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread Glen Daniels
+1 from me. I also agree with Bertrand's point about notifying private@, and would be OK with requiring a (single) mentor/IPMC vote to ensure that someone is paying attention... but it would be nice if we didn't need two. --Glen On 11/12/2010 3:20 AM, ant elder wrote: I'd like to propose that

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Glen Daniels g...@thoughtcraft.com wrote: ...I also agree with Bertrand's point about notifying private@, and would be OK with requiring a (single) mentor/IPMC vote to ensure that someone is paying attention... but it would be nice if we didn't need two

Re: [DISCUSS] Poddling new committer process

2010-11-12 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need for votes from