Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-06 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Niclas Hedhmannic...@hedhman.org wrote: Would it make a difference, if I step up and make the initial PMC Chair, as I have over the last couple of weeks started my own commitment to the project? My main concern is over the small number of people writing

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/8/5 Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com: On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretazbdelacre...@apache.org wrote: In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code listen to the community? That's

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache projects. But even if he did, by these standards the projects might

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache projects. But even if he did, by these

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no intention of running them like Apache projects.

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: Using these projects as an example is perhaps not the best from a community perspective because Ceki has no

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: You won't find the second part solely from the commit log. I would expect mentors to be monitoring the dev list. If it is filled with can you fix this? then there is a problem. But if it also has why did you do

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: You won't find the second part solely from the commit log. I would expect mentors to be monitoring the dev list. If it is filled with can you fix this? then

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: We are looking for projects with at least three independent committers, and personally I'm not including inactive committers in that count. Now you are making

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com snip That's why I measure the three

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Martijn Dashorst
AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. Martijn On Wednesday, August 5, 2009, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Jukka Zitting

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Martijn Dashorstmartijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. True, but that's how I interpret it, for reasons stated earlier in this thread. My -1 in the Pivot vote is just a statement

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. Martijn Absolutely right. I'd actually like to see more than 3 people with commit privs (and I think most projects have that). As a mentor I would be

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Ralph Goersralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretazbdelacre...@apache.org wrote: In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code listen to

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: OK we have a similar example here at the ASF - when Craig McC. left Apache Shale it slowly died - and AFAIK become the first project to join the Attic. So Ceki decides to become a Yak farmer in patagonia and maybe the same thing happens to

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Martijn Dashorstmartijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK Nowhere in the policy it is stated that committer activity == code commits. True, but that's how I interpret it, for reasons stated earlier in

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niclas Hedhman
I will try to answer it; 1. I think it is an extreme question. If both disappeared tomorrow, I don't think the will to continue exists. If it happens 12 months from now in the Incubator, I think it could go either way. If happens 12 months after graduation, I am pretty sure it sustains. Why do I

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-05 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Jukka, I don't like to force majority result if there is controversy. Having a couple of -1, and other not voting but practically agreeing with you and Ant, is not the way to go. I think they are as ready as they can get, considering the starting point and the general attitude towards incubated

Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretazbdelacre...@apache.org wrote: In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code listen to the community? That's certainly good, but IMHO not really the key point as it doesn't address the case when those people lose

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretazbdelacre...@apache.org wrote: In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code listen to the community? That's certainly good, but IMHO not really the key point as it

Re: Diversity as an insurance policy (Was: [VOTE] Graduation of Apache Pivot)

2009-08-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Yes, And here is another angle; ALL projects will die, it is just a matter of time. Now, knowing that we need to deal with, and can't set out with the notion that if we think it might whither it can't graduate, then I will need to vote against all graduations. So, IMHO, the might die criteria is