Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-28 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:24 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > > > > IMHO the emphasis on committer affiliation is misguided

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: There needs to be a balance. And I am satisfied that the Incubator PMC has been taking the right line on the issue so far, subjective as the line may be. FWIW, I also agree. And as a mentor, I think it results in a better podling/PPMC

RE: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >>> 1. the incubator should be concerned about the composition of the >>> proposed PMC. > Only that the community will be welcoming to newcomers and not treat the > ASF community-project as the "company's private project" Those are prima

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-16 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > > IMHO the emphasis on committer affiliation is misguided. overloading > > > the word diversity was also probably a mistake. maybe we need to focu

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-16 Thread ant elder
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That would make the PPMC be about 50% IBM day job and 50% (non IBMers > or > > IBM non-day jobers). Can we take it to a private

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: IMHO the emphasis on committer affiliation is misguided. overloading the word diversity was also probably a mistake. maybe we need to focus on narrower concepts with alternative names. 1. the incubator should be concerned about the comp

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-15 Thread Vamsavardhana Reddy
I am glad that I brought up the discussion on Tuscany graduation with Bill Rowe at ApacheConEU 2008. Happy to see this gain momentum and the positive responses :). ++Vamsi On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30, Robert Burrell

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-15 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > IMHO the emphasis on committer affiliation is misguided. overloading > the word diversity was also probably a mistake. maybe we need to focus > on narrower concepts with alternative names. > > 1. the incubator should be concerned about t

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-13 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would make the PPMC be about 50% IBM day job and 50% (non IBMers or > IBM non-day jobers). Can we take it to a private list if anyone wants a > detailed breakdown? +1 IMO the IPMC is wrong to ask for named affili

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-10 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/10/08, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > i've be

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-10 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 4/10/08, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > > > > > i've been a passive subscriber to the tuscany list for quite a while > > > now and to me, from the lists, i

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-10 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > > i've been a passive subscriber to the tuscany list for quite a while > > now and to me, from the lists, it feels like an open community > > > > It's been a while since we discu

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2008-04-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: i've been a passive subscriber to the tuscany list for quite a while now and to me, from the lists, it feels like an open community It's been a while since we discussed this. I'm very curious where Tuscany stands - in terms of viably graduating at this point. The

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 10/24/07, Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, > > Thanks for this feedback. I think you raise a good point that one of > the goals of community building is discovering a community's true > synergies and strengths and that sometimes the right outcome is not a > single community. Whe

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Jim, Thanks for this feedback. I think you raise a good point that one of the goals of community building is discovering a community's true synergies and strengths and that sometimes the right outcome is not a single community. Where goals are mis-aligned then a respectful change of dir

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Marino
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:43 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Noel, I was there when it happened. It was actually the other way around..Short story, the "independents" had trouble letting anyone else work or suggest ideas which went against their own mental model of how things should be. When i argued

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Just one example of the community bending over back wards to accomodate Jim and Jeremy http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05118.html Please search for "chianti" in the archives to get the background. Basically the trunk was abandoned and the revolutionary "fork" was accepted *JUST*

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Noel, FYI, I could plainly see who was working hard to co-exist and who wasnt'. IMHO, the people who left clearly did not want to play/participate. It was sacrilege to do anything that was against their mental model of things had to work. My 2 cents. -- dims On 10/23/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Noel, I was there when it happened. It was actually the other way around..Short story, the "independents" had trouble letting anyone else work or suggest ideas which went against their own mental model of how things should be. When i argued for a middle path vociferously, they left. -- dims On

RE: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Marino wrote: > About seven months ago, BEA decided to pursue an alternative > direction with the other active independents working on SCA > at the time when our goals diverged from others in the community. > Speaking for BEA, we made it clear on multiple occasions that > while we wished Tusca

RE: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Matthieu Riou wrote: > they did welcome enough independent committers while being in the > incubator > Attracting a large quantity of independent developers while being > in the incubator is pretty hard Yes, but it seems to be emerging that there *were* more independents, and they have left to w