Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-18 Thread Hiram Chirino
Leo, Many of the folks in the ActiveMQ project already have been through the incubation process once before when we put Geronimo though. It's not like this is our first rodeo. So in our eyes we really do think we are very close to having satisfied the incubation requirements. I think Alan was

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-16 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davanum Srinivas wrote: How about ActiveCluster ActiveIO? :) They are architectural component of AMQ as well? Are you looking for obstacles? - -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-16 Thread Davanum Srinivas
nope. just a review. On 3/16/06, Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davanum Srinivas wrote: How about ActiveCluster ActiveIO? :) They are architectural component of AMQ as well? Are you looking for obstacles? - -- #ken

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-16 Thread Davanum Srinivas
One of my pet peeves was that there was little or no discussion on many aspects of the proposals in the Geronimo dev list before the pmc decided to sponsor it. Am just making sure there are no unknowns with my incubator pmc hat on. I'd like to thank James and Alan for taking the time to answer all

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-16 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/16/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: Ken wrote: I've posted *my* first-pass definition of the term: a TLP that has no deliverable packages of its own, only from its subprojects. my first pass definition is quite different: an umbrella is

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noel J. Bergman wrote: Personally, I believe that ActiveMQ ought to be a TLP. Just to be clear, though, that's just a personal opinion at this time, and in no way a 'dis is how t'ings is gonna be' statement. Right? :-) What makes a project with

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Strachan wrote: What if folks involved in the project on the Geronimo project don't want it to be a TLP - at least not for a while yet? e.g. can't we just use the Geronimo PMC until the time folks want/decide to start to go TLP? Or

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dain Sundstrom wrote: Just to make sure this was allowed, before pitching it to the communities, I asked a few of the Board members at Euro OS con and they said it was possible. I didn't want to get into a situation where we do all of the

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Strachan wrote: What if folks involved in the project on the Geronimo project don't want it to be a TLP - at least not for a while yet? e.g. can't we just use the Geronimo PMC until the time folks want/decide to start to go TLP? Or

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/15/06, Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What makes a project with multiple codebases an umbrella is a gray area. I've posted *my* first-pass definition of the term: a TLP that has no deliverable packages of its own, only

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 3/15/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would jakarta have been any less an umbrella if three years ago we'd started rolling a huge jakarta.jar? Most likely, noone would have used it (in particular, not the developers), so you are right: Roys's definition may be formally

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: This is not a vote, but simply a discussion about the graduation of ActiveMQ from the Incubator. Personally, I do not consider ActiveMQ ready. And I do believe that it should be targeting TLP status. It has its own community, is

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Alan, There is something going on that i can't really put my finger on. - The large # of committers who don't really commit - The presence of ActiveCluster/ActiveIO which were separate projects in codehaus (is the active cluster code inside the milestone? i don't see a separate jar). - The

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/15/06, Jochen Wiedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would jakarta have been any less an umbrella if three years ago we'd started rolling a huge jakarta.jar? Most likely, noone would have used it (in particular, not the

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Personally, I believe that ActiveMQ ought to be a TLP. Just to be clear, though, that's just a personal opinion Which part of Personally, I believe wasn't clear? ;-) What makes a project with multiple codebases an umbrella is a gray area. I've posted *my*

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/15/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip good stuff.. Have TLPs and have each TLP's website be at geronimo.apache.org. Investigate federations. Even investigate sharing mailing lists. ...snip good stuff.. Jakarta and XML have gone that 'federation' route with a bunch of

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dain Sundstrom wrote: Our goal when starting the incubation process of ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, WADI, and XBean, was to consolidate the Geronimo community. Consolidating the community is a good thing. I've long wanted to see a number of those projects at the ASF. The vision was to

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/15/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip good stuff.. Have TLPs and have each TLP's website be at geronimo.apache.org. Investigate federations. Even investigate sharing mailing lists. ...snip good stuff.. Jakarta and

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Strachan wrote: What other issues are there? A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice as an ASF community. Such things

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
robert burrell donkin wrote: Ken wrote: I've posted *my* first-pass definition of the term: a TLP that has no deliverable packages of its own, only from its subprojects. my first pass definition is quite different: an umbrella is a project where there is the legal and formal organization

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Henri Yandell wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The APR spin-off from HTTP Server was probably the first federation (although it wasn't called that). HTTP Server depends upon APR and they have a large committer and PMCer overlap (but not total), but from the Foundation/Board's

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread David Blevins
If you ask me what my opinion on OpenEJB's future or James' opinion on ActiveMQ's future, we'll both probably tell you TLP is a good goal eventually. We've more or less been running as TLPs in relation to Geronimo for the past two plus years already, just at Codehaus. We've seen how

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I only see infrastructure issues in your list of concerns that would prevent the graduation of ActiveMQ. Look again, but also at comments from Dims, Henri and others. You express an opinion that it should be a TLP but mention that it has a long way to go before it's

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David Blevins wrote: Lots of good stuff, thanks. :-) If you ask me what my opinion on OpenEJB's future or James' opinion on ActiveMQ's future, we'll both probably tell you TLP is a good goal eventually. We've more or less been running as TLPs in relation to Geronimo for the past two plus

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Alan, There is something going on that i can't really put my finger on. - The large # of committers who don't really commit This is a perennial issue w/ incubation, IIRC. Do we give commit to all original committers and take it away from inactive ones or do we go

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: James Strachan wrote: What other issues are there? A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I only see infrastructure issues in your list of concerns that would prevent the graduation of ActiveMQ. Look again, but also at comments from Dims, Henri and others. At the moment, only Dims has taken the time to enumerate a list of

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I do feel that some of it does come down to being able to convey a subjective confidence to the Incubator PMC that the community really does get it regarding ASF principles and practices. There are a number of definitions for the word subjective. An operational

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: A number of infrastucture issues. Votes from the Incubator PMC and Geronimo PMC. To do that responsibly, I'd say that we would want to see communities having demonstrated that they understand how to practice as an ASF community. Such things are subjective, and

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan D. Cabrera wrote: I don't see any rush here. I think your initial 'what do we need to work on in order to eventually graduate?' message got interpreted by some - -- probably myself included -- as a 'what are the last items to check off so we

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: On 3/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: - The presence of ActiveCluster/ActiveIO which were separate projects in codehaus (is the active cluster code inside the milestone?

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: On the community side, we're still a bit shy of Mentors on ActiveMQ (James is the only one, and we are looking for at least 3 per project) That's not actually a formal requirement though, correct? Not at this time. We're still

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: 'So close to graduation'? Whence comes that? I think that proximity is still very much up in the air, particularly given Noel's opinion that [...] Keep in mind that is *my* opinion. The Incubator PMC as a whole may or may not agree. For a guy who is seriously

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
That's not actually a formal requirement though, correct? Not at this time. We're still discussing what the SHOULD and MUST will be, as I mentioned in the fuller context of what you quoted. Hmmm ... or perhaps I hadn't made it as clear as I thought I had. I just went back and found that

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dain Sundstrom wrote: When AMQ entered the incubator as a sponsored project from Geronimo, the current understanding of incubator rules was that AMQ would simply use the Geronimo pmc since the Geronimo pmc is expected to be the home for the project. Since then the incubator rules have been

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: This is not a vote, but simply a discussion about the graduation of ActiveMQ from the Incubator. And should have been on general@incubator.apache.org, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whether or not to cross-post to a myriad of other lists is a separate question of netiquette. And

RE: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dain Sundstrom wrote: I agree it is important to have as much as possible on apache hardware. It was my understanding until I read this thread here, that infrastructure was fine with leaving JIRAs for imported projects hosted remotely until the JIRA had a better import tool. Please keep in

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Noel, Our goal when starting the incubation process of ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, WADI, and XBean, was to consolidate the Geronimo community. The vision was to have a single community focused on building a modular server architecture based on a single core. The global deliverable

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread James Strachan
On 15 Mar 2006, at 03:54, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Personally, I do not consider ActiveMQ ready. And I do believe that it should be targeting TLP status. It has its own community, is separately releasable and useable in many projects, not just as part of a J2EE server, and would do better

Re: ActiveMQ Graduation From Incubator

2006-03-14 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/14/06, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of interest, who decides on if its going to be a TLP or Geronimo sub project how is that decision made? Only the Board can approve a new TLP. If the Board does not approve a podling as a TLP, the Incubator PMC is then responsible