Cos, I will start the vote soon. A bit over occupied with travel and holidays at this moment.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > 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). >
