Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-20 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:37 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So strictly speaking this doesn't seem to meet the documented Incubator graduation requirements. Thanks for the insight! It sounds like Wink should try attracting more active committers or go try graduating into a

Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-20 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Jukka, Agree with your and Ant's assessment -- dims On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:37 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So strictly speaking this doesn't seem to meet the documented Incubator graduation

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, I just submitted our May report to the board. Thanks a lot to anyone who chimed in with reviews and other help! Very much appreciated. Let's try this again for the next report, perhaps in a bit more timely and organized manner now that we're through the initial setup and have more volunteers

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-10 Thread Ross Gardler
Thanks Jukka, One of the issues to address for next time is where to record shepherds comments (if any). I suggest we do it directly in the reports, in the Wiki. This requires no additional processes to implement. Once the shepherd process is working smoothly I'd also suggest that we think about

Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-10 Thread ant elder
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.com wrote: On May 9, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report, Wink, and for the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at

RE: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-10 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
-Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:32 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports Thanks Jukka, One of the issues to address for next time is where to record shepherds comments

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-10 Thread Ross Gardler
On 10 May 2012 13:39, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:32 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports Thanks Jukka, One of the issues

RE: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-10 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
-Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:42 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports On 10 May 2012 13:39, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: -Original Message- From

Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-09 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Thanks for the report, Wink, and for the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: From activity it looks like this project should have graduated into a TLP a year ago. It looks like a mature and well developed project. I don't understand why

Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-09 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report, Wink, and for the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: From activity it looks like this project should have graduated into a TLP a year

Nuvem status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-09 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Thanks for the report, Nuvem, and the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: It is really hard to know what this project is trying to do other than be a common API for Cloud Apps. Very low activity. Apparently no users. A little pick up

Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Wilson
On 9 May 2012, at 17:23, Luciano Resende wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report, Wink, and for the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: From activity it looks like

Re: Wink status (Was: Shepherds for podling reports)

2012-05-09 Thread Kevan Miller
On May 9, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report, Wink, and for the review, Dave! On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: From activity it looks

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I've done my shepherd reviews and made one comment (about Amber) on this list). I'm not sure where you want general observations recording but I have moved the projects to the recommended status category That's

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
I was late to volunteer. Do you have any leftover projects? On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I've done my shepherd reviews and made one comment (about Amber) on this list). I'm not sure where you want general observations recording but I have moved

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Greg Stein
No such thing as leftover. Doubling up (or more) is just fine. Q is whether there are some under-reviewed... On May 8, 2012 6:40 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: I was late to volunteer. Do you have any leftover projects? On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ross Gardler

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-08 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, the Wiki page explicitly says that the chair will assign. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: No such thing as leftover. Doubling up (or more) is just fine. Q is whether there are some under-reviewed... On May 8, 2012 6:40 AM, Benson Margulies

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 5/4/2012 1:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: In the Board agenda, we have a line where each Director can state they have reviewed the report (before the meeting). They can also append queries and comments. Little mini-discussions kinda happen in those comments. Point here is: provide a similar

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 2, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, In order to better share the effort of reviewing podling reports and giving constructive feedback where needed, I'd like to propose something like the shepherd model the ASF board is using for project reports. For each report a single

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 2, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, In order to better share the effort of reviewing podling reports and giving constructive feedback where needed, I'd like to propose something like the shepherd

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 5, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 2, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, In order to better share the effort of reviewing podling reports and giving constructive feedback where

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Benson Margulies
If you don't want to be a Shepherd, don't sign up. The board asked us to do a better job of reviewing reports and detecting mentor deficiencies. This is a plan to accomplish that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 5, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: If you don't want to be a Shepherd, don't sign up. Yeah, I get that part. The board asked us to do a better job of reviewing reports and detecting mentor deficiencies. I get that too. This is a plan to accomplish that. My opinion

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Alan For sure your point may be valid, but the whole point, if you read the whole thread from the beginning, which I am sure you did, you will notice that Jukka mentioned that this is a start and will assess the effort and the whole plan after giving it sometime. And actually having other

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Thanks for replying with a thoughtful response. Jukka put forth the idea of shepherds as a proposal. I was merely replying to that proposal with my own considered ideas. I am encouraged about the enthusiasm but I feel that it blurs the responsibility of the mentor. Shepherding the shepherds

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-05 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Alan... On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.comwrote: Thanks for replying with a thoughtful response. Jukka put forth the idea of shepherds as a proposal. I was merely replying to that proposal with my own considered ideas. I am encouraged about the

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: This looks like a mind expanding activity. I added my name for a maximum of 2 per month. Great, thanks! Would you mind taking a look at for example Nuvem and Wink this month? Or pick some other yet unclaimed

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Jukka... I also added myself, but as being a Mentor of CloudStack I would rather take (shepherdZ: DeltaSpike, Nuvem, Wink) while Dave Fisher takes (shepherdY: CloudStack, NPanday, VCL) Dave would you please ACK that ? On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Jukka Zitting

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Stein
In the Board agenda, we have a line where each Director can state they have reviewed the report (before the meeting). They can also append queries and comments. Little mini-discussions kinda happen in those comments. Point here is: provide a similar location for IPMC members (including shepherds)

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 3, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, OK, so let's see how this works out in practice. We have 19 podling reports to review by next Wednesday (Ambari is still empty). To keep the required effort down to a reasonable level, I divided these to six slots of three reports

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: ... The resulting TODOs are (see also the May2012 wiki page):  - jukka:     Airavata, Droids, SIS, Wookie, Zeta Components  - rgardler:  Amber, PhotArk  - mfranklin:

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Dave Fisher
On May 4, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: Hi Jukka... I also added myself, but as being a Mentor of CloudStack I would rather take (shepherdZ: DeltaSpike, Nuvem, Wink) while Dave Fisher takes (shepherdY: CloudStack, NPanday, VCL) Dave would you please ACK that ? Sorry

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-04 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: In the Board agenda, we have a line where each Director can state they have reviewed the report (before the meeting). They can also append queries and comments. Little mini-discussions kinda happen in those comments. Point

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-03 Thread Ross Gardler
for podling reports. It provides more review for the Incubator PMC itself, in order to determine what it needs to do. Then it kicks the result up to the Board and starts to perform the Action Items that fell out of those reports. My concern was on the notion of permanently assigning a shepherd

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-03 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, OK, so let's see how this works out in practice. We have 19 podling reports to review by next Wednesday (Ambari is still empty). To keep the required effort down to a reasonable level, I divided these to six slots of three reports each and divided them among me, Ross and Matt and three other

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-03 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Added my name, but, haven't mentors already kind of volunteered for this by virtue that they are mentoring? Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org A Day Without Nuclear Fusion Is a Day Without Sunshine On May 2, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Ross

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-03 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org wrote: Added my name, Great, thanks! Would you mind taking the role of shepherdX this month and giving a closer look at Clerezza, Lucene.NET and Syncope? but, haven't mentors already kind of volunteered for this by virtue

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On May 3, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org wrote: Added my name, Great, thanks! Would you mind taking the role of shepherdX this month and giving a closer look at Clerezza, Lucene.NET and Syncope? but,

Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, In order to better share the effort of reviewing podling reports and giving constructive feedback where needed, I'd like to propose something like the shepherd model the ASF board is using for project reports. For each report a single shepherd [*] is assigned responsibility for a deeper

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Jukka, This is a good idea. I have signed up. I only ask you bear one thing in mind. Some months active people here have lots of their own podlings reporting, which takes quite a bit of time if done diligently. When assigning shepherd each month please bear in mind how many reports they are

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: This is a good idea. I have signed up. Excellent, thanks! I only ask you bear one thing in mind. Some months active people here have lots of their own podlings reporting, which takes quite a bit of time if

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 2 May 2012 10:19, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: This is a good idea. I have signed up. Excellent, thanks! I only ask you bear one thing in mind. Some months active people here have lots

RE: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
-Original Message- From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:54 AM To: general Subject: Shepherds for podling reports Hi, In order to better share the effort of reviewing podling reports and giving constructive feedback where needed, I'd like

RE: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
-Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:24 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports On 2 May 2012 10:19, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:59

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 2 May 2012 12:50, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] ... Looking a little further forward i.e. not suggesting this initial small step should be transformed into a larger step but rather looking at

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I don't imagine the bucketing to be enshrined in written process, or even be fixed. More of a convenience. We might do it by, for example, asking Shepherds to identify the projects they would *prefer* to

RE: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
-Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:09 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports On 2 May 2012 12:50, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: -Original Message- From

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Stein
On May 2, 2012 8:10 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... I don't imagine the bucketing to be enshrined in written process, or even be fixed. More of a convenience. We might do it by, for example, asking Shepherds to identify the projects they would *prefer* to shepherd and

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On May 2, 2012 5:57 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On May 2, 2012 8:10 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... I don't imagine the bucketing to be enshrined in written process, or even be fixed. More of a

Re: Shepherds for podling reports

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Stein
there is value in the long term plan as expressed during the incubator reboot discussions. But you make a strong argument as to why the shepherds process is the wrong place to hang this particular goal. Hrm. Maybe I wasn't clear: I completely support the notion of shepherds for podling reports. It provides