Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/10/2010 11:25 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a

Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
So far I see 2 clear (binding) +1s for the proposal... Calling out for more ;) On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Matthew Sacks wrote: Hello, Peary Chiu and myself would like to announce the Proposal for the Kitty, Production Tomcat utility. Our proposal is as follows (we have also attached a PDF

Re: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Mark Struberg
+1 sound neat - and I'm really eager to check the groovy port ;) LieGrue, strub --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: From: Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com Subject: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator To: general

Re: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: So far I see 2 clear (binding) +1s for the proposal... It's a proposal, not a vote, right? I think it's fine to move forward with the vote if there are no pending issues (haven't checked). -Bertrand Calling out for more

RE: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
So far I see 2 clear (binding) +1s for the proposal... Calling out for more ;) Echoing Bertrand's comment, people may have been waiting for a [VOTE] thread. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 from me (binding) On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: So far I see 2 clear (binding) +1s for the proposal... Calling out for more ;) On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Matthew Sacks wrote: Hello, Peary Chiu and myself would like to announce the Proposal for

Re: Looking for a few more votes... Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-13 Thread Pid
On 13/09/2010 14:35, Noel J. Bergman wrote: So far I see 2 clear (binding) +1s for the proposal... Calling out for more ;) Echoing Bertrand's comment, people may have been waiting for a [VOTE] thread. A VOTE is a good idea. :) p 0x62590808.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-10 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a very long time before sending users to their own

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-09 Thread Pid
+1 (non-binding) Small point: if a Mentor must be a Member, I can't be one, because I'm not. p On 08/09/2010 16:00, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: +1 (Notbinding) On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-09 Thread Greg Stein
Just to clarify: I'm assuming you're saying +1 to the proposal, rather than to my comment. Correct? And to clarify for myself: I have no opinion on the proposal itself. I timed out after Java and the next few buzzwords. Thankfully, this proposal didn't say framework or I may have timed out after

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-09 Thread Pid
On 09/09/2010 07:15, Greg Stein wrote: Just to clarify: I'm assuming you're saying +1 to the proposal, rather than to my comment. Correct? +1 indeed, to the proposal +1 actually, to the mailing list comment, too. The Incubator PMC might consider that establishing sufficient interest which

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Robert Matthews
I'm with James on this one. Many good points have been made on this, but we do have bigger things to worry about. On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:06 -0400, James Carman wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: For the moment at least the dev

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-09 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 on the mailing lists issue. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Pid p...@pidster.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 07:15, Greg Stein wrote: Just to clarify: I'm assuming you're saying +1 to the proposal, rather than to my comment. Correct? +1 indeed, to the proposal +1 actually, to the mailing list

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Greg Stein
The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable community. If projects arrive at the Incubator with an already-built user community,

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate I

[PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-09 Thread msacks
The dicussion of how proposals should be addressed might be a better issue for the Wiki page on proposals. It is off topic of this original proposal, and I vote that it be moved to a separate thread. We have agreed and noted to use a single mailing list for the purposes of this proposal. On

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Shahaf
James Carman wrote on Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 15:33:53 -0400: If users are interested in the development goings-on, then they can subscribe to the dev list. A standard argument against this: Having it in the same list makes it easier to pull users in to become developers. Some folks, like us

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
On 9/9/10 9:33 PM, James Carman wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Struberg
...@carmanconsulting.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:33 PM On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: The formation of your

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
: From: James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:33 PM On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Stein gst

No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks matt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Dan Haywood
Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote:  Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? ... Like Martijn and Greg I think that's a

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Struberg
- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7:16 AM   Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
for now. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8

RE: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Gav...
2010 7:29 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: d...@haywood-associates.co.uk Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) +1 especially since incubation is about establishing a developers community -M On Wed, Sep 8, 2010

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) +1 especially since incubation is about establishing a developers community -M On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: +1 I barely see the users list used

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread James Carman
Isn't Isis a different bird though? It has been around for a long time and is likely to actually have existing users On Sep 8, 2010 7:04 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Matthews
One point against this is that we have had a long-standing user list, and it is the developer list that is new and growing. People are use to the user list already. If we are going to combine the two then I suggest we have a -user list now and let the developers grow out of that. Rob On Wed,

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
On 8 September 2010 12:16, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: Isn't Isis a different bird though? It has been around for a long time and is likely to actually have existing users It has some, but not enough to be sustainable. Hence entry into the incubator to build both its user

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
On 8 September 2010 12:19, Robert Matthews rmatth...@nakedobjects.orgwrote: One point against this is that we have had a long-standing user list, ... ... People are used to the user list already. We do, but it's going to change anyway when we make the apache mailing list available.

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread James Carman
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: For the moment at least the dev community is more active (or at least more vocal), so their mailing list should be the main focal point.  As I said in the other email, when we have more user traffic than dev

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread sebb
On 8 September 2010 12:39, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: snip/ And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-08 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 (Notbinding) On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks matt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks matt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not

Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator

2010-09-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks matt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on