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Subject: Re: Flex Status
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:43:58 -0700
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On May 10, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote:

> Hi,
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net> =
wrote:
>> I think we'll be able to persuade the PPMC that they don't really =
want to manage
>> their own JIRA instance once that is done. So, they have a little =
infra delay.
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> There's a bit of history behind this. Flex was getting a bit
> frustrated at the slow migration progress, so last month I suggested
> [1] an external server as an interim solution. I totally agree that
> it's not an ideal or in any way final solution, but without some
> progress on this Flex will soon hit six months without effective
> development infrastructure. That's horrible.
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> If not an external server, can we provision a new ASF server for this,
> perhaps just a virtual one to start with?

Infrastructure is working on a JIRA upgrade and Flex can participate. =
Help is needed with the ASF license checkbox code. I'm hoping to have =
cycles to help with that next week. I have to standup JIRA at work ....

About the fall off on the dev list. Two factors.

- The group has a lot of energy and there was a huge amount of =
discussion at the start.
- This was followed by a Logo contest with over 50 entries and two =
rounds of voting on the flex-dev list. This was significant volume.


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>> I'll certainly try to suggest another report author when report time =
truly arrives.
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> Having more people with experience in writing board reports is
> definitely useful, but I don't see particular problems with this
> report. It's informative and highlights problems that the podling is
> facing. What's more to ask?
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>> I agree with Greg that we should remove this report.
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> There's no harm in extra out-of-cycle reports, so let's keep it.

I see, no problem, other than no signatures.

Regards,
Dave

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> [1] http://markmail.org/message/q3aagw5jhqz5m6b5
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> BR,
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> Jukka Zitting
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