Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Jun, hopefully you will get the support you need on your dev list. However, please do not hesitate to come back to this list if you need clarity. It may take too many emails and you might need a thick skin, but we will help in our strange way. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Apache Geronimo 2.2 Dependency Upgrades

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.com wrote: The Apache Geronimo project has received a contribution which updates a number of Geronimo dependencies and associated code updates. The code contributions have been attached to

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread Ross Gardler
On 29 November 2011 12:18, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: hopefully you will get the support you need on your dev list. However, please do not hesitate to come back to this list if you need clarity. It

[VOTE] Release Apache Accumulo 1.3.5-incubating (rc8)

2011-11-29 Thread Eric Newton
This is the first incubator release for Apache Accumulo, with the artifacts versioned as 1.3.5-incubating. VOTE: http://www.mail-archive.com/accumulo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00939.html RESULT: http://www.mail-archive.com/accumulo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg01038.html SVN source tag:

[POLL] Suitable Name Search: Drop Or Retain?

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
There has been concerns expressed about accumulation of rules without pruning. In that spirit, I'd like to find out whether the community feels that dropping the rule would be better than revising it into something workable. The current check [1] is outdated (for example, www.nameprotect.com) and

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Accumulo 1.3.5-incubating (rc8)

2011-11-29 Thread Benson Margulies
+ On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Eric Newton eric.new...@gmail.com wrote: This is the first incubator release for Apache Accumulo, with the artifacts versioned as 1.3.5-incubating. VOTE: http://www.mail-archive.com/accumulo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00939.html RESULT:

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Accumulo 1.3.5-incubating (rc8)

2011-11-29 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 binding On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Eric Newton eric.new...@gmail.com wrote: This is the first incubator release for Apache Accumulo, with the artifacts versioned as 1.3.5-incubating. VOTE: http://www.mail-archive.com/accumulo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00939.html RESULT:

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Accumulo 1.3.5-incubating (rc8)

2011-11-29 Thread Tommaso Teofili
+1 (binding) Tommaso 2011/11/29 Eric Newton eric.new...@gmail.com This is the first incubator release for Apache Accumulo, with the artifacts versioned as 1.3.5-incubating. VOTE: http://www.mail-archive.com/accumulo-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00939.html RESULT:

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 28 November 2011 19:21, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 11/28/2011 1:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: That is because, every single time, the RM agreed that the release was worth re-cutting. We have been assuming that it is the rule of Apache to cut another RC even if it

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 28 November 2011 21:17, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Neha Narkhede wrote: Thanks for the feedback, I still have some questions. 1. Alan, this nunit license acknowledgement is missing from the NOTICE file since RC1 and RC1 had the nunit files.

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 28 November 2011 19:22, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Nov 28, 2011 7:01 PM, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: That is because, every single time, the RM agreed that the release was worth

Heads up: ACE 0.8.1-incubator vote

2011-11-29 Thread Marcel Offermans
As a heads up to the IPMC we wanted to announce that we just started a release vote[1] on the ace-dev mailing list about ACE 0.8.1-incubator. This release basically fixes a few issues that came up while running our community graduation vote [2]. As soon as the vote has been closed, we will call

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: This specifically says that a majority is NOT required. This does seem odd. This does mean that a release (for example due to a security issue) cannot be held back by any entity or block of committers. Martijn

NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Monday, November 28, 2011, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: ... It is not a requirement that the NOTICE file be minimal. Let's worry about this for the 0.7.x or 0.8.0 release It think it *is* a requirement, according to http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice which specifically refers to

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 29 November 2011 16:26, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: This specifically says that a majority is NOT required. This does seem odd. This does mean that a release (for example due to a security issue) cannot

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 29 November 2011 16:37, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, November 28, 2011, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: ... It is not a requirement that the NOTICE file be minimal. Let's worry about this for the 0.7.x or 0.8.0 release It think it *is* a requirement, according

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: I agree that a non-minimal NOTICE might not warrant rejecting a podling release, but the next release should fix that. Agreed. For some background: Keeping the NOTICE file as lean as possible (given

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, November 28, 2011, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: ... It is not a requirement that the NOTICE file be minimal. Let's worry about this for the 0.7.x or 0.8.0 release It think it *is* a requirement,

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:52 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any consequences for downstream users if the file is incorrect? Are there any consequences for the ASF? Depends but potentially in some cases, yes. Robert

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:52 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any consequences for downstream users if the file is incorrect? To users no, to redistributors yes. Section 4 of ALv2 makes the attribution notices contained within the NOTICE file mandatory for any downstream

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 29 November 2011 16:59, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Monday, November 28, 2011, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: ... It is not a requirement that the NOTICE file be minimal. Let's

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 9:52 AM, sebb wrote: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html was just recently revised by Roy Fielding (ASF Director and founding officer) based on some nonsense back-channel complaints, and might be worth integrating into incubator docs. Would it not be better to integrate the

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
No committee can take action without a majority on that committee approving the action. The VP might take action by fiat (they are given that authority) - I can't imagine that would ever happen except in consultation with legal-private@ for a legal issue raised on private@ that impeded that

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 10:26 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, sebbseb...@gmail.com wrote: This specifically says that a majority is NOT required. This does seem odd. This does mean that a release (for example due to a security issue) cannot be held back by any entity or

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 11:30 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 November 2011 16:59, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: I agree that a non-minimal NOTICE might not warrant rejecting a podling release, but

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Neha Narkhede
One shortcut that can be taken when a /single file/ must be changed (and as discussed on the list, that change already has consensus), would be to roll the next candidate on a shorter 24 approval clock, provided that everyone had full opportunity to review the candidate, and that rest of the

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:38 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 11/29/2011 11:30 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 November 2011 16:59, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org  wrote: I

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:29 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 11/29/2011 9:52 AM, sebb wrote: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html was just recently revised by Roy Fielding (ASF Director and founding officer) based on some nonsense back-channel complaints, and might

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 2:14 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I've been wondering whether F2F meetups (bootcamps) for the incubator might be a way forward Every retreat I've attended - which translates to those in Wicklow - has included some level of incubator orientation, and some participation by a

Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Neha Narkhede
Hi, The context for this is the discussion here - http://markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=overhead+list:org.apache.incubator.general This was a long discussion with no clear answers. We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 11/29/2011 2:14 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I've been wondering whether F2F meetups (bootcamps) for the incubator might be a way forward Every retreat I've attended - which translates to those in

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:30 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: But if the team already agrees that the changes need to be made, why not do so and re-roll? I'd just leave that up to the release manager to decide. There's no such thing as a perfect release (all non-trivial software has

Re: [policy] release vetoes?

2011-11-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Nov 29, 2011 10:10 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 11/29/2011 2:14 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I've

[PROPOSAL] Apache DeltaSpike - CDI-Extensions project

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Struberg
Hi! JBoss, The Apache MyFaces CODI team and CDISource would like to propose the Apache DeltaSpike project to the Incubator. We have added the initial proposal to the Wiki[1] and its content is also included below for convenience. There are already a few people who expressed interest in

Re: concerns about high overhead in Apache incubator releases

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 29 November 2011 18:34, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: No committee can take action without a majority on that committee approving the action.  The VP might take action by fiat (they are given that authority) - I can't imagine that would ever happen except in consultation

Re: NOTICE file must be minimal (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread sebb
On 29 November 2011 22:25, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:30 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: But if the team already agrees that the changes need to be made, why not do so and re-roll? I'd just leave that up to the release manager to decide.

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The context for this is the discussion here - http://markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=overhead+list:org.apache.incubator.general This was a long discussion with no clear answers. We would like to know

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ?

2011-11-29 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:49:03PM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ What we would like to know is if any member

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ?

2011-11-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Nov 29, 2011, at 20:04, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: In my view, it's appropriate to run the votes in parallel if the RM has good reason to believe that the vote will pass. Presumably nobody would waste anybody's time calling for a vote when they have reason to believe it

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen a point to 2) to running serial votes. You need only 3

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:27 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen a

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Neha Narkhede
So, you are saying option 2 is a reasonable choice, given that only the NOTICE/LICENSE files have changed one line here and there ? Thanks, Neha On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: On 11/29/2011 7:27 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 11/29/2011

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:50 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: So, you are saying option 2 is a reasonable choice, given that only the NOTICE/LICENSE files have changed one line here and there ? Yes, if you let the 72 hour vote run through with a clear message that it will be rerolled with a short vote. If