Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Benson Margulies
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera >> wrote: >>> In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque >> >> So you mean all TLPs should have status labels

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque > > So you mean all TLPs should have status labels? > > Might be useful...probatory, active, low activity, attic candidat

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
> On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque > > So you mean all TLPs should have status labels? > > Might be useful...probatory, active, low activity, attic c

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > In short, the pTLP designation is a bit too opaque So you mean all TLPs should have status labels? Might be useful...probatory, active, low activity, attic candidate...why not. -Bertrand -

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
> On Jan 27, 2015, at 12:31 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: >> ...- do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP... > > I don't like that, IMO pTLPs have to be explicitly flagged, to make > sure both users and Apache folks a

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > ...- do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP... I don't like that, IMO pTLPs have to be explicitly flagged, to make sure both users and Apache folks are aware of their "immaturity". -Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > ...For Flex, we did not have an established community of developers coming in > with the code. But I don’t know that we could have recruited enough ASF > members to be committers I agree with that, I was a Flex mentor but only interested i

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
It's an *option* not the only route. Working for some but not others is just fine. Ross -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 11:23 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Chris Mattmann; Jim Jagielski Subject: Re: my pTLP vi

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Alex Harui
I can see how it could work for some new communities, but I don’t think it will work for all. I would imagine some potential podlings don’t have well-established communities. They might just be a few folks with a good idea and looking to recruit lots of new folks for the initial committers list.

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
TL;DR I think this is a good idea. I thought long and hard about this during the weekend and I’ve changed my mind about this; I’ll spare you my handwringing thought processes. Some things that I personally would like to see: - do away w/ the pTLP name, just make it a regular TLP - ComDev shoul

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Purtell
Yes, formal votes for all decisions has been my *universal* experience on all projects I have participated in at Apache. It's like there are two (or more) different foundations, culturally. Thanks for the consideration. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 25.01.2015 21:07,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> ...The Apache Members are coming in as the PMC. This is a much more >> serious commitment than being a Mentor. The pTLP is not an >> IPMC entity > > Ok, I agree that if those

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > ...The Apache Members are coming in as the PMC. This is a much more > serious commitment than being a Mentor. The pTLP is not an > IPMC entity Ok, I agree that if those PMC members take that as seriously as you think there shouldn't be an

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz > > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >>> ...They are reporting to the Board. We know what inact

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: my pTLP view Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: "my pTLP view"!!). THAT is what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Oh, my mistak

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> ...They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So >>> we >>> ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> ...They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we >> ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down > > I know how that works, it's just that with your

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > ...They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we > ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down I know how that works, it's just that with your pTLP proposal the podling is "at the mercy" of their mentors - if th

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.01.2015 21:07, Andrew Purtell wrote: > I'm not arguing with you Greg (smile), honestly, Subversion sounds like a > very laid back place to participate. It's different in Bigtop, HBase, > Phoenix, Whirr (of historical note), and Hadoop (secondhand observation), > Hive (secondhand observation),

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
I'm not arguing with you Greg (smile), honestly, Subversion sounds like a very laid back place to participate. It's different in Bigtop, HBase, Phoenix, Whirr (of historical note), and Hadoop (secondhand observation), Hive (secondhand observation), ZooKeeper (secondhand observation) and others. For

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
Yes, and I briefly confused the two, and fessed up. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: "my pTLP view"!!). THAT is > what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: > > > Oh,

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Greg Stein
Go to the FIRST POST of this thread (titled: "my pTLP view"!!). THAT is what we're talking about. Not the Strawman. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Oh, my mistake! (smile) I confused pTLP with the "Strawman" proposal there > for a minute. In the pTLP proposal, there are

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Greg Stein
Apache Subversion uses discussion/consensus for all of those. We throw out +1 and similar as shorthand for our preference, but we never tally, as it isn't a formal vote. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > In all of the projects I have been PMC or PPMC on, we vote on release

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
In all of the projects I have been PMC or PPMC on, we vote on releases, new committers, and elevating committers to PMC. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Purtell > wrote: > > > > This is *exactly* the way things work in a TLP. > > >

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > > This is *exactly* the way things work in a TLP. > > Yes, everyone new to the Foundation on the PPMC has a sense of equal > ownership in the process. The PPMC makes a decision together as equals, > then the decision is reviewed as a whole.

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
Oh, my mistake! (smile) I confused pTLP with the "Strawman" proposal there for a minute. In the pTLP proposal, there are no new-to-the-Foundation project members on the pTLP PMC. "All proposals for new ASF projects must include an initial PMC chair and an initial set of PMC members. These people m

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
> This is *exactly* the way things work in a TLP. Yes, everyone new to the Foundation on the PPMC has a sense of equal ownership in the process. The PPMC makes a decision together as equals, then the decision is reviewed as a whole. But this is not how things would work in a pTLP, right? Individua

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.01.2015 19:51, Andrew Purtell wrote: >> That hardly ever happens (it's most likely when there are problems with > ​> ​ > a podling's first few releases), which is why you get the impression > ​> ​ > that the PPMC can make binding decisions. > > ​Close. The PPMC membership feels they have made

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
> That hardly ever happens (it's most likely when there are problems with ​> ​ a podling's first few releases), which is why you get the impression ​> ​ that the PPMC can make binding decisions. ​Close. The PPMC membership feels they have made a decision that matters with equal input. Certainly on

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.01.2015 19:16, Andrew Purtell wrote: > With a PPMC we invite newcomers to make votes we call binding on matters of > their own project. As other people have said, PPMC members (that are not also IPMC members) do not have binding votes, neither for releases nor for inviting new committers/PPM

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Purtell
_ > From: Andrew Purtell<mailto:apurt...@apache.org> > Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 6:09 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Re: my pTLP view > > You are approaching this question with complete trust

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
because pTLP is an *option* Sent from my Windows Phone From: Andrew Purtell<mailto:apurt...@apache.org> Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 6:09 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: my pTLP view You are approaching this q

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: >... > project, they become a PPMC, a podling. Sure, the IPMC provides oversight, > and the board again, but the PPMC can make binding votes on committers, > releases, everything that matters - provisionally, of course, which is > completely

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. > > And a good manager is a Mentor ;-) Niclas

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
You are approaching this question with complete trust and faith in the Apache process, being an Apache member, but an incoming / foreign community will not have this, not universally. Take the emotion out of this, because I certainly am not being emotional here, but instead trying to evaluate this

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Those of us in such a new incoming community might get the commit bit but > can't vote on adding committers, See my reply to Jan. C == PPMC solves this completely. > or making releases. This is *exactly* what is happening today with every

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Purtell
I find the direction this discussion has gone personally disappointing, but I might be missing understanding of some crucial point. > 2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members. committers can be ​> ​ chosen however the community decides. but the *project* is reviewed by ​> people with (h

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" > wrote: > > >A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. > > > >The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are > >not. > > OK, I'll accept that, but if executed correct

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:18 PM, jan i wrote: > On Saturday, January 24, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < > ross.gard...@microsoft.com > > wrote: > > > No, the PMC is *not* the driving force. The project community is, even > > where the PMC is a subset of the committers. Since it is the set of

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:18 PM, jan i wrote: > Remember we talk rules here, and rules should be made so the reflect what > we want, and I believe it is important that the community is represented in > the PMC, not 100% but also not 0%. I still don't understand what's the extra bit of 'shine' tha

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
I really feel we risk ruining > everything we stand for. > > jan i > > > > > Sent from my Windows Phone > > > > From: Alex Harui<mailto:aha...@adobe.com > > > Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 12:06 PM > > To: general@incubator.

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
; > jan i > > > > > Sent from my Windows Phone > > > > From: Alex Harui<mailto:aha...@adobe.com > > > Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 12:06 PM > > To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org > > > Cc: Chris Mattm

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
+1 Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roman Shaposhnik Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:51 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: my pTLP view On Fri

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > All that being said, while I will (and already did two years ago) support > some experimentation with > the pTLP model I still feel that an Incubator with teeth scales better. But we wouldn't know until we try. And that's why

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, jan i wrote: > On Friday, January 23, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < > ross.gard...@microsoft.com > > wrote: > >> A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. >> >> The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are >> not. > > No offense but

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
; To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> > Cc: Chris Mattmann<mailto:mattm...@apache.org>; Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com> > Subject: Re: my pTLP view > > > > On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, "jan i" wrote: > > > >I agree with

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" wrote: >A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. > >The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are >not. OK, I’ll accept that, but if executed correctly, the current Incubator probably doesn’t need changing either. I

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
o:general@incubator.apache.org> Cc: Chris Mattmann<mailto:mattm...@apache.org>; Jim Jagielski<mailto:j...@jagunet.com> Subject: Re: my pTLP view On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, "jan i" wrote: > >I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for "only ASF >M

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > Roman kicked off a query about "next steps", with links to several wiki > pages on possibilities. The "IncubatorV2" page which describes a > "probationary TLP" is nothing like I have thought about. > > In my mind, a pTLP looks *exactly* like an

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
++ -Original Message- From: Greg Stein Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 12:05 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Cc: Jim Jagielski , Chris Mattmann Subject: Re: my pTLP view >On Jan 23, 2015

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/23/15, 6:53 AM, "jan i" wrote: > >I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for "only ASF >Members" seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, >I really would feel unhappy being cut out of the loop Time for my weekly musings. Sorry, no oaths and anthems

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Jan 23, 2015 8:53 AM, "jan i" wrote: > > On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein wrote: > >... > > I agree with everything else you write, but the demand for "only ASF > Members" seems very hard. If I come to ASF with a community and a project, > I really would feel unhappy being cut out of th

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Stein
They are reporting to the Board. We know what inactivity looks like. So we ask the PMC to fix it, or we shut them down. Just this week, you messaged a PMC asking if they had enough actives. There is ample precedent for us detecting and working through inactivity. On Jan 23, 2015 9:46 AM, "Bertrand

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > ...1. probationary text is prominent,... > ...2. the initial PMC is comprised of only ASF Members... I like that proposal, it's simple and looks actionable. The only worry is what happens if the ASF Members on the PMC become inactive - t

RE: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
From: Chris Mattmann<mailto:mattm...@apache.org> Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 7:18 AM To: Greg Stein<mailto:gst...@gmail.com>; general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org>; Chris Mattmann<mailto:mattm...@apache.org>; Jim Jagielski<mailto:j...@jagunet.com

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Mattmann
+1000. My view too and with my support too. -Original Message- From: Greg Stein Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" , Chris Mattmann , Jim Jagielski Subject: my pTLP view >Roman kicked off a query about "next steps", with links to several wiki

Re: my pTLP view

2015-01-23 Thread jan i
On 23 January 2015 at 14:42, Greg Stein wrote: > Roman kicked off a query about "next steps", with links to several wiki > pages on possibilities. The "IncubatorV2" page which describes a > "probationary TLP" is nothing like I have thought about. > > In my mind, a pTLP looks *exactly* like any o