Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread Bruce Snyder
On 7/13/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Tam wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html A Mentor is a role undertaken by a permanent member of the Apache Software Foundation and is chosen by the Sponsor to actively lead in the

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread David Blevins
On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Ted Leung wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:16 PM, David Blevins wrote: In the ASF we do have PMC Chairs, period. Now let's say, someone wins this debate on wether or not having a PMC Chair from inside or outside the project is more or less likely to result in

RE: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Bruce Snyder wrote: What do you mean fix the doc? Is it not the policy that mentors be members? I've seen and been involved in discussions where this was used as a reason that non-members could not be mentors of an incubating project. Mentors are (MUST BE) Incubator PMC Members. ASF Members

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Querna
Ted Leung wrote: It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for the vote to close, so please vote by 11:59PST on Thursday July 13th. The

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-14 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
+1 (non-bindig) -Matthias On 7/14/06, Paul Querna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Leung wrote: It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread Bruce Snyder
On 7/14/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Snyder wrote: What do you mean fix the doc? Is it not the policy that mentors be members? I've seen and been involved in discussions where this was used as a reason that non-members could not be mentors of an incubating project.

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread David Blevins
Sorry, I can't resist... On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: ASF Members are automatically eligible for PMC membership; non-Members may be elected at the discretion of the Incubator PMC. with-big-grin This is some of that non-hierarchical, peer-based stuff you were

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:51 AM, David Blevins wrote: I have the gut feeling there is something we can do to marry these concerns, as my primary concern is how the incubation ends. I.e. I think there should be an opportunity before incubation ends to learn to function *with* that person and

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ted Leung wrote: On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:51 AM, David Blevins wrote: Assuming we decide to start ppmcs with a chair, there's no reason you couldn't start with one of the mentors as the chair and make it an objective to exit with one of the incubated committers as the chair. Given that I

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 12, 2006, at 1:39 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: This was addressed by the board a few months ago, where we admitted that having several Mentors could make sense, but that there needed to be one Mentor which was tasked with the position of being the, for lack of a better term, primary mentor. This was relayed to the

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/13/06, David Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you'd start with one of the mentors as chair then, maybe half way through incubation, start grooming a new ppmc chair from within the project. +1 This addresses my concern about formally identifying the mentor who is taking the key

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread upayavira
? Upayavira -Original Message- From: Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator] Date: Thu 13 Jul 2006 21:40 Size: 2K To: general@incubator.apache.org Cliff Schmidt wrote: On 7/13/06, David Blevins [EMAIL

RE: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: This addresses my concern about formally identifying the mentor who is taking the key responsibility for the podling (rather than three rarely available mentors with no one of them taking responsibility). The problem isn't the lack of a single mentor, it is the failing of

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: I just want to note that we don't have a requirement that chairs be members. I thought I recalled a rule that mentors had to be members, but I can't quickly find confirmation of that. Yep, I was the XML PMC chair for several years and not a

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Kenneth Tam
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html A Mentor is a role undertaken by a permanent member of the Apache Software Foundation and is chosen by the Sponsor to actively lead in the discharge of their duties (listed above). On 7/13/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: How hard is it to understand that the PMC Chair has no role (slight hyperbole)? If the PMC Chair is a visible role, the community is already in trouble. The only role that a PMC Chair normally fills is getting the quarterly report filed.

RE: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Kenneth Tam wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html A Mentor is a role undertaken by a permanent member of the Apache Software Foundation and is chosen by the Sponsor to actively lead in the discharge of their duties (listed above). We still haven't

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/13/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cliff Schmidt wrote: It also allows this mentor to demonstrate the role of a chair How hard is it to understand that the PMC Chair has no role (slight hyperbole)? Then I guess I would have to ask you, how hard is it to understand that the

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread David Blevins
On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Ted Leung wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: How hard is it to understand that the PMC Chair has no role (slight hyperbole)? If the PMC Chair is a visible role, the community is already in trouble. The only role that a PMC Chair

RE: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: I don't know that I agree completely with you about the role of PMC Chairs - sometimes a good PMC chair helps a project quite a bit As the Chair? Or as a recognized leader by his or her peers based upon the weight of experience and ideas, rather than the official role?

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:16 PM, David Blevins wrote: In the ASF we do have PMC Chairs, period. Now let's say, someone wins this debate on wether or not having a PMC Chair from inside or outside the project is more or less likely to result in dependence. I'm not of the opinion that we

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/11/06, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I get a vote... not so: everyone gets a vote :-) anyone who has a opinion on any issue should definitely feel free to express it however, only some votes are binding on apache (in this case, AIUI votes from those currently on the

Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an existing issue (

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Sam Ruby
robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an existing issue (

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Abele
On 12.07.2006, at 19:39, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Martin van den Bemt
+1.. Mvgr, Martin robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an existing

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
I like the idea. so +1 (non-binding) but how should that really work? snip Each incubator project could have nominated two or three PMC members whose job is to pay attention to the project. /snip How does a podling know which to nominate etc? The need for that is there, of course. I try to

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Alex Karasulu
Erik Abele wrote: On 12.07.2006, at 19:39, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to

Re: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/12/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) this seems like a good opportunity to reintroduce an

RE: Mentors - the more, the merrier? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
robert burrell donkin wrote: i've been wondering whether the answer may be to have a chair for each ppmc analogous to the role of the pmc chair. I strongly disagree. Although history documents an unfortunately strong human tendency towards delegating to a hierarchical authority, the ASF

Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/10/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for the vote to close, so please vote by 11:59PST on Thursday July 13th. (this duration seems just a little

Re: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:50 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: is 72 hours the right length for an acceptance vote? I'd prefer a bit more time .. like the time for graduation etc. - these are BIG decisions and unlike code decisions hard to revert. As such I think we should not rush things.

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
+1 (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) Ted Leung wrote: It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Leo Simons
+1 (and what he said applies to me too) Leo On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:41:20AM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: +1 (And I'll note now that I'm interested in participating, although can't commit the time to be a mentor right now.) Ted Leung wrote: It seems like the discussion on

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Ben Laurie
On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for the vote to close, so please vote by 11:59PST on

[VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Ted Leung
It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for the vote to close, so please vote by 11:59PST on Thursday July 13th. The current proposal

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Ben Laurie
On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for

RE: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
robert burrell donkin wrote: is 72 hours the right length for an acceptance vote? I wouldn't do it over a week, especially a long weekend. And if very few PMC members have voted, I might post a reminder to vote rather than close a vote with a minimum of voters. --- Noel

RE: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
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Re: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Samisa Abeysinghe
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:50 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: is 72 hours the right length for an acceptance vote? I'd prefer a bit more time .. like the time for graduation etc. - these are BIG decisions and unlike code decisions hard to revert. As such

Re: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 11, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Leo Simons wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:50:44PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/10/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours

Re: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Ted Leung wrote: In this case, we had several weeks of discussion on Heraldry, including some F2F conversations at ApacheCon EU, so 72 hours doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If people want to extend the voting period, I've no problem with that. I guess the

RE: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: In this case, we had several weeks of discussion on Heraldry, including some F2F conversations at ApacheCon EU, so 72 hours doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Nor me. I guess the bigger question is whether we ought to change the 72 hour guideline for the foundation as a

Re: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Ted Leung
On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I guess the bigger question is whether we ought to change the 72 hour guideline for the foundation as a whole, or make incuabator votes a clearly noted exception. We should use our judgment to ensure a collaborative environment without

RE: Acceptance Vote Duration? [WAS Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator]

2006-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: We should use our judgment to ensure a collaborative environment without undue overhead. But it would be unfair, for example, to deliberately hold a vote when someone whom you know is opposed is going to be off-line. I was just asking the

[VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-10 Thread Ted Leung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so for the vote to close, so please vote by 11:59PST

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-10 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 from me. On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
+1 On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. In keeping with Apache practice, I'd like to allow 72 hours or so

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 05:05, Ted Leung wrote: The current proposal is here:  http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ HeraldryIdentityProposal, and I've included the full text below. +1, non-binding. Cheers Niclas - To

Re: [VOTE] Accept Heraldry into the Incubator

2006-07-10 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/10/06, Ted Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems like the discussion on Heraldry has died down, so I'd like to call for a VOTE on accepting Heraldry into the incubator. +1 Cliff