I think it would be a good time to graduate. I'm very proud of the progress the community has made in terms of acting in an Apache way.
Some logistics: I would be happy to serve as an initial chair. I'll draft a resolution, with a blank space for chair. This doesn't mean we have to agree now is the time to graduate, but we'll have it available for discussion and revision whenever we are ready. If we decide to graduate now, maybe we could email everyone who is on the PPMC, ccing private@, to see if they are still interested in being on the PMC, and taking no response to mean "yes" until we hear otherwise, in case someone is on vacation away from email, or in the hospital, or something. Also, mentors are traditionally included in a graduating podling's PMC, right? On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey Impala community, > > It's been a while that all of the Impala infrastructure has been moved > over, and the community appears to be functioning healthily, generating new > releases on a regular cadence as well as adding new committers and PPMC > members. All of the branding stuff seems great, and the user mailing list > has a healthy amount of traffic and a good track record of answering > questions when they come up. > > As a mentor I think it's probably time to discuss graduation. The project > is already functioning in the same way as your typical Apache TLP and it > seems like it's time to become one. > > Any thoughts? If everyone is on board, the next step would be: > > 1. Pick the initial PMC chair for the TLP. According to the published > Impala Bylaws it seems that this is meant to rotate annually, so no need to > stress too much about it. > > A couple obvious choices here would be Marcel (as the original founder of > the project) or perhaps Jim (who has done yeoman's work on a lot of the > incubation process, podling reports, etc). Others could certainly volunteer > or be nominated as well. > > 2. Draft a Resolution for the PPMC and IPMC to vote upon. > -- the resolution would include the above-decided chair as well as the list > of initial PMC, etc. > -- the Initial PMC could be just the current list of PPMC, or you could > consider adding others at this point as well. > > > I can help with the above process but figured I'd solicit opinions first on > whether the communit feels it's ready to graduate. > > Thanks > Todd >
