Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:44 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > All, > > We're currently at 54 podlings in the incubator. I feel like that's a > lot. Anyone else have any concerns with so many podlings? I really encourage everybody to read the feedback on the last year's attempt

ODF Toolkit Podling (was RE: 54 podlings - too many?)

2016-03-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
..@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam Ruby > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 05:48 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: 54 podlings - too many? > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What about recommending that it be adopted b

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
behalf of Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Date: Monday, March 28, 2016 at 5:47 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: 54 podlings - too many? >O

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Harbs wrote: > What about recommending that it be adopted by OpenOffice? > > IIUC, ODF Toolkit predates OpenOffice becoming an Apache Project. It seems > (to an outsider like me) like the OpenOffice community would be a good home > for a

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Harbs
What about recommending that it be adopted by OpenOffice? IIUC, ODF Toolkit predates OpenOffice becoming an Apache Project. It seems (to an outsider like me) like the OpenOffice community would be a good home for a related toolkit. Harbs On Mar 28, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Sam Ruby

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:36 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:33 AM Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:44 AM, John D. Ament >> wrote: >> > Both great ideas. Thanksfully, Whimsy helps a bit on

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread John D. Ament
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:33 AM Sam Ruby wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:44 AM, John D. Ament > wrote: > > Both great ideas. Thanksfully, Whimsy helps a bit on the age part > > > > https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/podlings/by-age > > > > It

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > >> We're currently at 54 podlings in the incubator. > > A more use stat would perhaps to see: > a) How long they have been in incubation? > b) How many releases have they made? > > May be easier to then target one

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:44 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > Both great ideas. Thanksfully, Whimsy helps a bit on the age part > > https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/podlings/by-age > > It also gives a clean dashboard to display who the mentors are, etc. Is it > possible we

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread John D. Ament
Both great ideas. Thanksfully, Whimsy helps a bit on the age part https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/podlings/by-age It also gives a clean dashboard to display who the mentors are, etc. Is it possible we can have the mentors of each project give this feedback in an objective manner? John On

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Michael Fitzner
> Am 28.03.2016 um 07:59 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Add > Onofré : > > Hi, > > I agree with Justin. > > Maybe, we should do kind of audit: > - are the podlings actually active (commits, messages on the mailing list, > releases, etc) ? > - for how long are they in the incubator

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi, I agree with Justin. Maybe, we should do kind of audit: - are the podlings actually active (commits, messages on the mailing list, releases, etc) ? - for how long are they in the incubator ? - how far are they from graduation ? We can spread this work with "buckets" assigned to volunteer

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > We're currently at 54 podlings in the incubator. A more use stat would perhaps to see: a) How long they have been in incubation? b) How many releases have they made? May be easier to then target one that should graduate or perhaps retire? Thanks, Justin

Re: 54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-27 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
I think it's a lot, but shouldn't be a worry as long as mentors are keeping up, right? And that the incubator report manager isn't overburdened. ;) There's also the topic of shepherds. I seem to recall a sentiment to the effect that incubator shepherds weren't adding value (from whom, I forget

54 podlings - too many?

2016-03-27 Thread John D. Ament
All, We're currently at 54 podlings in the incubator. I feel like that's a lot. Anyone else have any concerns with so many podlings? John