I haven't forgotten. Just got back from a business trip. Will start a vote this week.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > 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). >> > >
