I have a resolution with a blank space for chair, and the community voted unanimously to graduate.
I also have a set of people who will make up the PMC (should we graduate), based on their responses to the email I sent. We have two volunteers for PMC chair. I'll call a vote with potential PMC members as voters, starting on Monday using https://steve.apache.org/, following examples from other ASF projects. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
