Thank you for the email Phil. We have recently added a new PMC member Dionysios Logothetis that has graciously volunteered to take on the board report responsibility going forward. We are also identifying new potential members for Apache Giraph leadership roles. We look forward to continuing to grow the project with newer members coming onboard.
Thanks, Avery On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Phil Steitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Giraph community, > > In the governance model at the ASF the board delegates responsibility for > managing projects to PMCs. To enable the board to provide oversight across > the > foundation, PMCs are tasked with providing the board with a quarterly > report on the health of the project. The board has noticed that the reports > for Giraph have been missed for a number of months. > > The reports to the board are normally written by the PMC chair but all PMC > members have an individual responsibility to ensure that a report is > submitted. If the PMC chair is not available then any PMC member can submit > the report. If you need help with this process, please reach out to > [email protected] > > Please ensure that a report for Giraph is submitted to the board for the > next meeting. > > If the PMC chair is not going to be available for an extended period of > time > it may make sense to rotate the PMC chair. Rotating the PMC chair does not > mean the current chair has failed. People's situations and interests > change, > and rotation is good as it allows more people to become familiar with that > role. Again, if assistance is required with this process, please feel free > to > reach out to [email protected] > > As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity > reduces > to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects > reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing > oversight. Projects that reach this stage are placed in the attic[1]. If > Giraph has reached this point, please reach out to the Attic project to > arrange transfer. On the other hand, if your project is mostly dormant but > still has at least three active PMC members it can stay in that state for > as > long as needed. If your project is in such a state, please mention that in > your report and verify the PMC's state at regular intervals. > > Finally, if you have any questions please feel free to reach out to > [email protected]. > > Thanks, > The ASF Board > > [1] (http://attic.apache.org/ >
