+1 On 10/22/2010 02:42 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote:
Please vote as to whether you think ZooKeeper should become a top-level Apache project, as discussed previously on this list. I've included below a draft board resolution.Do folks support sending this request on to the Hadoop PMC? Patrick ------------ X. Establish the Apache ZooKeeper Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to distributed system coordination for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache ZooKeeper Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ZooKeeper Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to distributed system coordination; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache ZooKeeper Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache ZooKeeper Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache ZooKeeper Project: * Patrick Hunt<ph...@apache.org> * Flavio Junqueira<f...@apache.org> * Mahadev Konar<maha...@apache.org> * Benjamin Reed<br...@apache.org> * Henry Robinson<he...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Patrick Hunt be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ZooKeeper, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ZooKeeper PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache ZooKeeper Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ZooKeeper Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Hadoop ZooKeeper sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Hadoop ZooKeeper sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.
