Ok, This was a great discussion, thanks for the deep insight, Roman!
looks like this thread has stewed for a while and it is time to [VOTE]. The following candidates were put forward during the [DISCUSS] (in the order of their appearance on the thread): Dmitriy Setrakyan Vladimir Ozerov Konstantin Boudnik Valentin Kulichenko Denis Magda Branko Čibej Considering the number of the candidates I propose to use First-past-the-post voting, with a single-round/single winner rules, where the candidate collecting the most votes (not the majority) wins. [1] Dmitriy, would you do the honors and start the formal [VOTE]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting Thanks, Cos On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:19PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Dmitriy Setrakyan > <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > > While all the candidates suggested so far look good, I would propose Denis > > Magda as the next PMC chair. His participation in the project does not only > > have to do with the code, but also with Ignite project overall, including > > website, documentation, new tickets, design, etc. > > Sorry to come to this thread rather late, but I wanted to offer a somewhat > different perspective that hopefully can help reframe this discussion > a little bit. > Note, that what I'm about to say is coming from a non-coding (on Ignite) > member > of the PMC. In fact, I stayed on the PMC after graduation more with my ASF > member hat on, rather than as somebody who wanted to directly contribute > to where the technology was going. My concern during your incubation days > was (and still is!) how well are you guys doing on the community development > front. > > If you recall, the diversity requirement (the fact that more than 80% of > project > members work for the same company) came up during our graduation. While > it wasn't a blocking requirement it still was a very valid concern. > Monocultures > are really nasty for open source communities. > > I think it would be fair to say that Ignite community hasn't really > improved much > diversity-wise since its graduation. And I honestly feel that this is, > to a larger > extent, because the focus is now missing. It was well understood that in order > to graduate the community had to do all it can to demonstrate a > positive trajectory > in that direction. And we did. But we kind of dropped the ball on it since. > > With that in mind, I offer my view on what a change in the Chair could > offer: a renewed > focus on community growth and development. If you agree with this premise than > somebody like Branko or Cos who could act as a forcing function to constantly > remind us about what else can we do to grow and develop this community would > be an ideal choice for the Chair (after all Branko's "tough love" was > probably the > most useful part of Ignite's experience in the Incubator). > > Now, of course, strictly speaking you don't have to be a Chair to do > that. But lets > face it -- that helps. And besides, a project's Chair doesn't really > have any special > powers when it comes to technological consensus, but anything that has to do > with external community the VP title that the chair gets can help quite a bit. > > Long story short: if Branko or Cos (as former mentors) would like to > commit to 6 more > months of the same hands-on mentorship focused on community development -- > they > would have my wholehearted support. > > Thanks, > Roman (with my PMC member hat on).
