Dear Streams community,
In the Apache governance model, the ASF board delegates responsibility for
managing projects to PMCs. This allows projects to govern themselves, in terms
of their own development goals, guidelines, and volunteer spirit, within the
scope of our purpose as an open source foundation. The state allows us to
supply an umbrella of corporate protection to our projects and volunteers, but
only to the extent that we retain active and effective oversight of each
project's operation on behalf of the public's interest.
To enable the board to provide oversight across the foundation, each PMC is
tasked with providing the board a quarterly report on the health of their
project. This allows us to hear your heartbeat, to see the project through
your eyes, and to inform the public through our meeting minutes.
The board has noticed that the reports for Streams have been missed
for a number of months. This makes us sad because we have lost that ability
to communicate with you, to see what may be preventing your good health,
and to ensure that we are providing the services that you need to continue
as an Apache project.
The reports to the board are normally written by the PMC chair but all PMC
members have an individual responsibility to ensure that a report is
submitted. If the PMC chair is not available then any PMC member can submit
the report. If you need help with this process, please reach out to
bo...@apache.org
Please ensure that a report for Streams is submitted to the board
for the next meeting.
If the PMC chair is not going to be available for an extended period of time,
it may make sense to rotate the PMC chair. Rotating the PMC chair does not
mean the current chair has failed. People's situations and interests change;
rotation is good as it allows more people to become familiar with that role.
Again, if assistance is required with this process, please feel free to
reach out to bo...@apache.org
As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity reduces
to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects
reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing
oversight. Projects that reach this stage are placed in our Attic, where
they continue to be accessible to the public but are not portrayed as having
an active community for maintenance.
http://attic.apache.org/
If Streams has reached this point, please reach out to the Attic project
to arrange transfer. On the other hand, if your project is mostly dormant but
still has at least three active PMC members, it can remain in that state for
as long as needed. If your project is in such a state, please mention that in
your report and verify the PMC's state at regular intervals.
Finally, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to
bo...@apache.org.
Thanks,
The ASF Board
