I have sent out the Chair election ballot via steve.apache.org to people who will be listed in our resolution as PMC members, via email addresses (@ apache.org). Please vote. The vote closes Friday.
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> >> >> >
