Thanks Nick, Peter and Marvin for the clarifications. It looks like something I could totally commit too and am honored to be considered for the position.
Thanks, Logan On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The role of PMC chair isn't that special. It's basically just the > quarterly > > reports and updating records for new PMC members. > > That's true for a collegial, low-key project like Lucy. > > For projects with perpetually high levels of drama -- Hadoop, the > Incubator, > OpenOffice, etc. -- the Chair position is more involved. And the Chair job > for other projects can suddenly become a lot of responsibility if there's a > community fork, personnel conflagration, legal issue, etc. I don't > imagine anything big coming Lucy's way in the near or medium term, though. > > Chairs are also expected to subscribe to board@apache (private for ASF > Members > and officers such as PMC Chairs) and infrastructure@apache. That's a fair > amount of mail, but some of it can be devnulled automatically and a lot of > the rest dispensed with quickly. I find those lists interesting so I'm > subscribed anyway, but I've taken a deeper interest in the foundation than > most. > > Marvin Humphrey >
