Status of the ppmc

[Alex Karasulu <ao...@bellsouth.net>]

Noel, Nickola,

How are we doing with the ppmc stuff.  Are we going to be able to
vote on the status of Vincent Tence soon?  The vote is still open and
I'd like to come to a conclusion.  Others have also approached about
getting involved and I want to be ready when and if they begin making
contributions.  Don't mean to rush you guys though so just let us 
know roughly when you think the ppmc list will be ready.

Alex

Re: Status of the ppmc

[Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> If I am not mistaken, a PPMC is essentially automatic for a project.  I can
> create the mailing list for the PPMC, but most things can (and should) be
> done on -dev.
> 
> Nicola Ken?

Correct.

Create a ppmc mailing list, but all general discussion should happen on 
public lists. Voting in a committer is deemed as a sensitive (hence ppmc 
list only) by some ASF projects, and non-sensitive (ie public) by 
others, so this community has to choose how to handle it (the best thing 
is to do a has always been the case for the project).

-- 
Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
             - verba volant, scripta manent -
    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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RE: Status of the ppmc

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

> IIRC, Vince is interested in working on AAA code, not docs.

Oh, bother.  I was thinking of someone completely different.  Yes, I
remember now, and I really thought that he had been voted in.

If we want to wait for the PPMC list, which I can do tomorrow, fine.
However, I don't recall any objections, and I thought there was a consensus
amongst this group to include him.  There is no reason to expect that if no
one here objects that anyone else will.

	--- Noel

Re: Status of the ppmc

[Phil Steitz <ph...@steitz.com>]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> If I am not mistaken, a PPMC is essentially automatic for a project.  I can
> create the mailing list for the PPMC, but most things can (and should) be
> done on -dev.
> 
> Nicola Ken?
> 
> 
>>Are we going to be able to vote on the status of Vincent Tence soon?
> 
> 
> Oddly, I thought that we had done that already.  For some reason, I thought
> that we were going to take advantage of SVN's fine-grained access control
> and create a www/ directory or some such for the project, and grant him
> access.  But however is fine.  Also, do we have a plan for how to prepare
> the site from the sitedocs from ldap and the xdocs from naming?

IIRC, Vince is interested in working on AAA code, not docs. I am 
interested in this area and I will volunteer to review and apply patches 
until we can get the vote done (assuming the PMC did not already do this).

Getting the site published is a gap that we could use some help on.  Here 
again, I will help get things committed and (maybe needing some help) 
deployed if others are willing to work on site design and generation.

Here is what I am working on now on naming:

0) Repackage, removing "directory" from the package names (figure out the 
least painful, minimal cruft way to do this using Subversion)
1) Test framework (will commit what I have this week, with the 
repackaging) and tests based on tomcat use cases
2) Complete implementation of XML config, add support for properties files 
and other config sources
3) Complete xdocs

Phil

RE: Status of the ppmc

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

Alex,

If I am not mistaken, a PPMC is essentially automatic for a project.  I can
create the mailing list for the PPMC, but most things can (and should) be
done on -dev.

Nicola Ken?

> Are we going to be able to vote on the status of Vincent Tence soon?

Oddly, I thought that we had done that already.  For some reason, I thought
that we were going to take advantage of SVN's fine-grained access control
and create a www/ directory or some such for the project, and grant him
access.  But however is fine.  Also, do we have a plan for how to prepare
the site from the sitedocs from ldap and the xdocs from naming?

> Others have also approached about getting involved and I want
> to be ready when and if they begin making contributions.

Excellent.  That is great news.

	--- Noel