On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi David, > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:39 PM, David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> ...We are also wondering why it's been over three years since the last >>> PMC addition, that sounds like a very long time. >> >> We do everything on the dev@ list -- we even added our last PMC members on >> the dev@ list. >> We don't really use the private@ list... > > Making minimal use of your private list is great, but you still need > PMC members to vote on new committers and releases for example, as > it's only PMC member's votes that are binding. > > I guess the board's comment about a long time between PMC members > election is based on making sure that you are renewing your PMC roster > when people stop being active - if you have a sufficient number of > active PMC members there's no immediate concern. Good point. If you review our recent releases you’ll see activity by many PMC members. Regards, Alan