Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-19 Thread Santiago Gala
El vie, 17-04-2009 a las 10:41 +0100, Robert Burrell Donkin escribió: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: * IPMC informally agrees that the opinion of any TLP prospectively

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Santiago Gala santiago.g...@gmail.com wrote: I feel happy that TLPs have to exercise judgement calls. They decide if a small component is appropriate, the incubator handles IP clearance oversight and they adopt the one/two committers, handing community

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote:  * IPMC informally agrees that the opinion of any TLP prospectively admitting a graduating podling as a subproject is of great weight with

Re: Encouraging TLPs to Game The System [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator]

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: We have enough instruments and proof that the incubator works for small projects as well. Ivy is one such project. there's always an exception to any rule :-) though a small codebase, ivy had quite a broad

Re: Encouraging TLPs to Game The System [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator]

2009-04-17 Thread Martijn Dashorst
We have enough instruments and proof that the incubator works for small projects as well. Ivy is one such project. Martijn On Friday, April 17, 2009, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Mon, Apr

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: opinions? Is there any purpose beyond having a process for process sake and, as you say, avoiding PMCs to make judgment

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO more process is sadly inevitable as apache scales If so, I think something dies with it... And critics saying that ASF is not sustainable was right. Well Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote:  * IPMC informally agrees that the opinion of any TLP prospectively admitting a graduating podling as a subproject is of great weight with regard to whether the aggregate community situation would meet volume +

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Benson
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: From: Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org Subject: Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:47 AM On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Matt Benson

RE: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Matt Benson wrote: I'll apologize in advance because I will probably sound like a total dick in this email being that I'm irritated for unrelated reasons at the moment. LOL Sorry to hear it, but I must have missed the part where you were so acting. let it now be known that Commons will not

RE: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Benson
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: From: Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com Subject: RE: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 11:30 AM Matt Benson wrote: I'll apologize in advance

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-15 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: Commons is working *now*. Just as Jakarta was working once. But Commons will most likely no longer work when it is growing too much. And the things discussed here (making Commons the target of many new

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: Commons is working *now*. Just as Jakarta was working once. But Commons will most likely no longer work when it is growing too much. And

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Some projects are just too small to warrant the target of a TLP or even a sub project We agree!  We have several projects here that I believe belong in Commons! May be. But please consider the following: - Commons

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: There seems to be some concern in Commons that committers are a threat to the existing codebase. I know the concerns you mention and felt them very much in the discussion about JSch. But, at least for me personally, I

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: To clarify: do you mean Sanselan could graduate into Commons? Commons adopts the Sanselan codebase and active committers, upon a vote of the Incubator and in particular of the project's mentors. Sounds like a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
2009/4/14 Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com: Craig Russell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: Some projects are just too small to warrant the target of a TLP or even a sub project We agree!  We have several projects here that I believe belong in Commons! For example, we

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread sebb
On 14/04/2009, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: To clarify: do you mean Sanselan could graduate into Commons? Commons adopts the Sanselan codebase and active committers, upon a vote of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Santiago Gala
El mar, 14-04-2009 a las 10:28 +0100, sebb escribió: On 14/04/2009, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: To clarify: do you mean Sanselan could graduate into Commons? Commons adopts the Sanselan

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/04/2009, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz  bdelacre...@apache.org wrote:   To clarify: do you mean Sanselan could graduate into Commons?   Commons adopts the

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Matt Benson
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 1:22 AM On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:42 AM

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:34, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Well, the point is: we are  talking about small libraries. That's code.  What about community, Torsten?  What is the Community?  It has been the Apache Commons as a collective, not sub-projects.  Is that to change?  We do

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:15, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: My view, and I believe Torstens view is that to become a committer means to join the dev lists, send in patches, be part of the community, gain trust with the project members and then after a while be voted in as a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Torsten Curdt tcu...@vafer.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:15, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: And the person should be considered more trustworthy than most with respect to making patches, given that they are the contributors of the code in the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Matt Benson wrote: Note: Resending due to my having neglected the [PROPOSAL] subject line earlier. == Commons Incubator Proposal ABSTRACT The Commons Incubator would act as a perpetual podling or mini- Incubator overseeing the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
No harsh feelings but I give up. You do not hear what I am saying. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 14:32, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: Too often had the discussion at Commons whether this library needs to go through

Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Matt Benson
. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: From: Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 9:49 PM Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The Commons Incubator would act

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Santiago Gala
El lun, 13-04-2009 a las 18:29 +0200, Torsten Curdt escribió: No harsh feelings but I give up. You do not hear what I am saying. I tend to agree with Niclas in this area, though the last exchanges you had with Noel led me closer to understand the points we seem to be missing. I guess we are

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Torsten Curdt wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: That's code.  What about community, Torsten?  What is the Community?  It has been the Apache Commons as a collective, not sub-projects.  Is that to change?  We do not want Apache Commons to turn into an umbrella, right?  We need to keep that as

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-13 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The primary obstacle to Commons using the normal Incubator practices is the community exit requirements.  We feel that, due to the small size/scope of a Commons component, a podling graduating into Commons should be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Santiago Gala
El sáb, 11-04-2009 a las 11:28 +0200, Torsten Curdt escribió: I think this is a self-imposed constraint. Indeed it is. Many other projects have no problem bringing in 'bulk' via IP Clearance and taking in one or two committers with it. Well, some do :) That's why now there is the

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Santiago Gala
El sáb, 11-04-2009 a las 19:56 +1000, Gavin escribió: -Original Message- From: tcu...@vafer.org [mailto:tcu...@vafer.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Curdt Sent: Saturday, 11 April 2009 7:26 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator On Sat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Santiago Gala
El dom, 12-04-2009 a las 12:35 +0800, Niclas Hedhman escribió: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: You're insinuating too much here. Simply put the commons PMC would want to see committers in action before making them full blown Commons

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: You're insinuating too much here. Simply put the commons PMC would want to see committers in action before making them full blown Commons

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Well, the point is: we are talking about small libraries. That's code. What about community, Torsten? What is the Community? It has been the Apache Commons as a collective, not sub-projects. Is that to change? We do not want Apache Commons to turn into an umbrella, right? We need to keep

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The Commons Incubator would act as a perpetual podling or mini-Incubator overseeing the influx of components to be adopted into Apache Commons. -1 (vote, not veto). -1 from me, at least for now, for the same reasons: If

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
My view, and I believe Torstens view is that to become a committer means to join the dev lists, send in patches, be part of the community, gain trust with the project members and then after a while be voted in as a committer. Trust related to what? Keep in mind that Committer != PMC member,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: Well, the point is: we are  talking about small libraries. Imagine there is library X which was developed by only 2 developers. They want to bring this code to Commons. What to do? IP clearance is one thing. But what

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The current state of affairs makes it highly impractical for any codebase that includes IP from a non-ASF-committer to enter Apache Commons. I think this is a self-imposed constraint. Many other projects have no problem

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:22, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: Well, the point is: we are  talking about small libraries. Imagine there is library X which was developed by only 2 developers. They want to bring

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
I think this is a self-imposed constraint. Indeed it is. Many other projects have no problem bringing in 'bulk' via IP Clearance and taking in one or two committers with it. Well, some do :) That's why now there is the proposal I guess ;) cheers -- Torsten

RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Gavin
-Original Message- From: tcu...@vafer.org [mailto:tcu...@vafer.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Curdt Sent: Saturday, 11 April 2009 7:26 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:22, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
My view, and I believe Torstens view is that to become a committer means to join the dev lists, send in patches, be part of the community, gain trust with the project members and then after a while be voted in as a committer. Now if someone has a nice great big chunk of code, or even a whole

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread gudnabrsam
--- On Sat, 4/11/09, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: From: Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 5:44 AM My view, and I believe Torstens view is that to become a committer means

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Gavin ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: tcu...@vafer.org [mailto:tcu...@vafer.org] On Behalf Of Torsten snip The incubator approach just doesn't work well for projects that have a very small scope and user base IMO. +1 the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 21:24, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Gavin ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: tcu...@vafer.org [mailto:tcu...@vafer.org] On Behalf Of Torsten snip The incubator approach just

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: Well, the point is: we are  talking about small libraries. Imagine there is library X which was developed by only 2 developers. They want to bring

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: You're insinuating too much here. Simply put the commons PMC would want to see committers in action before making them full blown Commons committers. This is no different from any of the other incubations that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The Commons Incubator would act as a perpetual podling or mini-Incubator overseeing the influx of components to be adopted into Apache

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-10 Thread Torsten Curdt
Well, the point is: we are talking about small libraries. Imagine there is library X which was developed by only 2 developers. They want to bring this code to Commons. What to do? IP clearance is one thing. But what about the 2 developers? Just make them committers while they have no clue about

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Benson
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: From: Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:32 AM Well, the point is: we are talking about small libraries. Imagine

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-10 Thread Min Cha
...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org wrote: From: Torsten Curdt tcu...@apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:32 AM Well, the point is: we are talking about small libraries

[PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-09 Thread Matt Benson
Note: Resending due to my having neglected the [PROPOSAL] subject line earlier. == Commons Incubator Proposal ABSTRACT The Commons Incubator would act as a perpetual podling or mini-Incubator overseeing the influx of components to be adopted into Apache Commons.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-09 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Matt Benson gudnabr...@yahoo.com wrote: The Commons Incubator would act as a perpetual podling or mini-Incubator overseeing the influx of components to be adopted into Apache Commons. -1 (vote, not veto). If Commons PMC wants to import code, then it can file IP