Hi Roman, Many thanks for your excellent mentorship!
Your #2 and #3 proposals sound good to me and I look forward to the discussion on private@. - Rahul On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > with the fifth (v1.11) release in the final stages of being cut, > I think now would be a good time to officially start our graduation > discussion. With my mentor hat on, I feel that the project is > mature and self-reliant enough to qualify as a TLP. > > Process-wise graduation consists of drafting a board resolution, > getting it approved by the IPMC and finally submitting it to the ASF > board's consideration. At the very minimum your resolution will contain: > 1. A name of the project (I assume that'll be MADlib) > 2. A list of proposed PMC members > 3. A proposed PMC chair > A good example of a resolution can be found here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Graduation+Resolution > > In fact, Frank and I took the liberty to use that as the basis for our own: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/Graduation+Resolution > Please read it carefully and let us know what do you think. > > On #2 my suggestion would be to have an opt-in system. Basically > we will kick off the thread off on private@madlib asking current PPMC > members if they are willing to continue on the PMC. > > On #3 I typically recommend podlings I mentor to setup a rotating chair > policy. This is, in no way, an ASF requirement so feel free to ignore it, > but it worked well before. The chair will be expected up for rotation every > year. It will be more that ok for the same person to self-nominate once > the year is up -- but at the same time it'll be up to the same person to > actually kick off a thread asking if anybody else is interested in serving > as a chair for the next year. Of course, if there multiple candidates there > will have to be a vote. > > Speaking of self-nomination -- the same thread that we're going to kick > off as part of solving for #2 will ask for folks to self-nominate as an > initial > chair to be listed on the resolution. > > Unless somebody objects strongly to my #2 and #3 proposals I'm going > to kick of this thread on private@. > > With that in mind, lets make the rest of the discussion on dev@ to be about > collecting the datapoints to present to IPCM as part of us asking them to > vote YES on our graduation. Lets collect all these data points in the same > wiki page: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/Graduation+Resolution > Or if you feel that a discussion may be needed -- just reply to this thread. > > Thanks, > Roman.
