Hi Sam, > On Jul 21, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Adjournment again. >> >> Change PMC chair resolutions result in sending Congratulations message. >> >> Would it be possible to change the email: >> >> to: new-chair1, new-chair2, ... new-chair3 >> cc: board, pmc1, pmc2, ... pmc3 >> >> For existing pmcs with a new chair, this acknowledges the new chair. >> >> For graduating pmcs, this acknowledges their graduation. >> >> Should we have a different message for the two cases? >> >> Should we have a congratulations on graduating from the incubator? > > Two complicating factors, both addressable with if checks on the > server and possibly new messages: >
I had similar thoughts. > 1) currently, the list is limited to, and the message focuses on, new > PMC chairs, i.e., people who are now chairs but previously were not > chairs of any other committee. > > 2) not all new committees are graduated podlings. Sometimes they form > via mitosis from an existing PMC. Other times the are simply new. Probably a new message directed solely to new projects, regardless of their origin. Probably a different message per project. I can easily wordsmith a message along the lines of "Congratulations on becoming an Apache Top Level Project" with the body saying that the board has approved the resolution blah blah. Speaking of which, the Congratulations message is not stored in a file like other messages, e.g. in secmail. Is it worthwhile to extract the message into a file (good engineering practice)? I have had folks comment that they didn't know about graduation since the chair's message was directed only to insiders and the project developers had to hear it from others. Craig > >> Craig >> >> Craig L Russell >> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >> [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo > > - Sam Ruby Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
