Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-26 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
I just posted the answer comments to the reports wiki (trinidad) -M On 3/26/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > what's the incentive for a project [to] push for diversity/graduation? > > That's an appropriate and important ques

RE: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > what's the incentive for a project [to] push for diversity/graduation? > > That's an appropriate and important question. > They can release without the Incubator PMC looking over their > shoulder? Less bureaucracy is probably appreciated. W

RE: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > No community -> no releases ?? Minimal community != none. Lack of diversity != none. Lack of releases may be viewed as blocking community development. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-19 Thread Adam Lally
On 3/18/07, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the problem is when a single company provides resources for a given project. In such a case, other committers usually come from the user community and this takes time. I think that one of the goal of the podling should be to build a user

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
"Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Niclas, > > Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer > and regular releases. Then they shouldn't have regular releases. I think Niclas's suggestions on community requirements for releases are fine, particularly for podl

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
And zero incentive to ever graduate. The point is that we've taken this position because an incubating project ISN'T permitted to operate or publicize as an ASF Project. It's accepted, but the podling is accepted provisionally. Abuse of the Apache name results in ejection of the podling. We see

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Irregardless of that, the IPMC could stipulate that releases are "final stepping stones" towards graduation, and require an active and diverse community to allow for releases. After all, it is the Incubator that does the release (legally)

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 18 March 2007 21:16, Guillaume Nodet wrote: > I don't think this would be a good idea to not allow one podling > to release anything. See my disclaimer, that I think it is reasonable to allow 'limited' releases. Point is to deter the 'coziness' and force graduation. Cheers Niclas ---

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Guillaume Nodet
I don't think this would be a good idea to not allow one podling to release anything. Let me state my thoughts: the goal of a podling is to build a lively and heterogeneous community to be able to graduate. Usually, there is one or more company behind a project. If there are more than one company,

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:54, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > On 3/17/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No community -> no releases ?? > Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer > and regular releases. Sorry, I don't fully follow. I thought you were speaki

Tuscany, was: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-17 Thread Jeremy Boynes
Tuscany has issues though. When you look at active committers (at least one commit in the last 3 months) it is a different picture: 14 from IBM and 3 from elsewhere (83%). Worse, there are modules where no non-IBM committer has ever been active (e.g. Java/SDO, Java/DAS, C+ +/*). -- Jeremy

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-17 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Ant, No, question is not about tuscancy. It's a general question as the situation can arise in the future where someone is trying to game the system. thanks, dims On 3/17/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 3/17/07, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-17 Thread ant elder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 3/17/07, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Niclas, Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer and regular releases. Are you talking about Tuscany still? Not all the Tuscany committers are from the one employer. There's 25 committers

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-17 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Niclas, Here the scenario is a project with all committers from one employer and regular releases. -- dims On 3/17/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 19:46, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > What are we going to do > about projects that will show signs of life but wi

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 16 March 2007 19:46, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > What are we going to do > about projects that will show signs of life but will remain in > incubator for a very long time. when do we kick them out? 3 years? 5 > years? No community -> no releases ?? Cheers Niclas

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-16 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Justin, From previous experience as mentor, i can safely say that it is very easy to push out releases by getting a few incubator pmc votes than it is to attract new committers and more importantly keep them engaged. Am afraid we are removing that incentive. What are we going to do about projec

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-15 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 3/15/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the incentive for a project [to] push for diversity/graduation? That's an appropriate and important question. They can release without the Incubator PMC looking over their shoulder? Less bureaucracy is probably appreciated. -- j

RE: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dims, Let's focus this on the general part of your question: > what's the incentive for a project [to] push for diversity/graduation? That's an appropriate and important question. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

Re: Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-15 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On Mar 15, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Frank Question, Would your vote be the same if you thought Tuscany would graduate very soon? Yes, my vote has nothing to do with Tuscany. I'm actually pretty ambivalent about the result and was voting more for consistency across TLPs tha

Incentive for Graduation

2007-03-15 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jeremy, [I pulled this out from the vote thread, so that the vote thread is not cluttered] Frank Question, Would your vote be the same if you thought Tuscany would graduate very soon? In other words, what's the incentive for a project (full of committers from one employer) to push for diversity/