Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jean T. Andersonj...@bristowhill.com wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure.  On the table we have: Suspension would include:  -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate)  -- disable

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Craig L Russellcraig.russ...@sun.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so IMHO the repository has not been vetted. I think we

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: That doesn't seem right either. I think members should still be able to access it read-only. Fair enough. I just don't think it should be readable by the public. But members? Why not just authenticated committers?

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Would this be moved to the attic? On Jul 27, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: What is the procedure for updating the Web site etc.? We need to let outsiders know that they should not depend on this incubator project. (There are tons of really solid incubator projects that others

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: Would this be moved to the attic? Probably not. The Attic is the collection of all released Apache Projects. Podlings != Projects, and were never accepted as projects. Do we want to charge the Attic with such additional burdens of then completing all IP clearances that

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Agree with Bill. Attic isn't the place, and Incubator has plenty or suspended/terminated/dead/inactive/whatever-the-politically-correct-term-is and I see no point changing this. -- Niclas On Jul 28, 2009 4:41 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: Would this

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-27 Thread David Crossley
Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of

RE: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. In favor: Noel J. Bergman

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both flag

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Ralph Goers
I would recommend that the public facing page for the project also be modified since it will still show up in searches. Ralph On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-22 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Nutch - Original Message From: Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] 2009/2/21 Otis Gospodnetic : Perhaps GSOC is something to consider. I see UIMA didn't

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: snip reason=user community reported healthy / My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking

Academic code drops (Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects])

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
. Ross Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message From: Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] Niclas Hedhman wrote

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: snip reason=user community reported healthy / My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no problems with open source, to the contrary. But they

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: snip reason=user community reported healthy / My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no problems with open source, to

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. +1 I may be mistaken, but from the what I can tell UIMA has had to manage with barely

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Janne Jalkanen
My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So they like to publish their source code on their

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: snip reason=user community reported healthy / My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Janne Jalkanen janne.jalka...@iki.fi wrote: My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an overwhelming need to publish and build up a

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA before the project's enthusiasm is sapped

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Fri 20 Feb 2009 17:23, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: Can you perhaps contact these individuals one-by-one and get their view on how they see it. Perhaps ask them to publish their work in parallel, and perhaps the 'OSS bug' will bite a couple of them?? I have talked to quite a few of

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Original Message From: William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:57:09 AM Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-19 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and the Community as a whole. I'm not a mentor

UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/19/09, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do you have a healthy

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/18/09, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic,

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-18 Thread Bob Buffone
Hello PMC, As a committer on the XAP Project, I would also vote +1 (non binding of course) for moving the project from incubation to the attic. We have seen little community develop around the project and have been making little/no progress on the code lately. Thanks for everyones help

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and the Community as a whole. I'm not a mentor of Lokahi, but I hang

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a mentor I'm putting some effort there, hoping to achieve a similar revival as

RE: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP,

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive podlings should just be archived into an Attic. IMO, you seem to have latched onto the wrong definition of the word suspend, which has multiple

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Richard S. Hall
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Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Cooper
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive podlings should just be archived into an Attic. IMO, you seem to

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive podlings should just be archived into an Attic. IMO, you seem to

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, similar

[VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and the Community as a whole. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Cooper
+1. I see little chance of XAP being resurrected at this point. -- Martin Cooper On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and the Community as a whole. I am long term apache user and have no benefit

RE: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
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Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Craig L Russell
+1 Craig On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is it still public available somewhere? Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Martijn Dashorst
+1 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Yoav Shapira
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP,

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Luciano Resende
+1 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Yoav Shapira yo...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Noel J. Bergman schrieb: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Eddie O'Neil
+1. Eddie On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Henning Schmiedehausen henn...@apache.org wrote: Noel J. Bergman schrieb: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached,

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Kevan Miller
+1 --kevan On Feb 16, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
+1. Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is it still public available somewhere? Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) --

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as