Hi I second Stamatis here, he's spot-on.
That's actually one key purpose of the incubation: build and grow the community. I have two comments: 1. There's no need to wait mentor vote on release, three binding votes are required (vote from the PPMC members), and it's not really possible to veto a release 2. I would encourage to consider committer. My personal standpoint is: the committership-bar should be fairly low, the PPMC/PMC membership bar should be fairly high. Thanks ! Regards JB On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Building a community is among the most important aspects of ASF > projects so it's always a good idea to bring new members in when you > feel that they are ready. > > There are various pages in ASF documentation [1] describing when and > how to invite new members. Please check them out and if there are > further questions I would be happy to elaborate more. > > Looking forward to seeing more people joining the project. > > Best, > Stamatis > > [1] https://community.apache.org/pmc/adding-committers.html > > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM Austin Bennett > <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > @vinesh -- yes. > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM Vinish Reddy Pannala < > > vinishreddypann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the feedback, Stamatis! > > > > > > You make a very good point. I did want to mention that a few of the PPMC > > > members have been inactive recently in the last few months, and despite > > > reaching out for release votes, we haven’t received responses. Meanwhile, > > > we currently have active contributors and committers who are regularly > > > working on the project (Multi-Catalog Sync, Apache Polaris(Incubating) > > > Integration, Parquet Source, Pluggable TF etc. to highlight the top ones) > > > and helping move things forward. > > > > > > Would it be appropriate for us to consider refreshing the PPMC composition > > > based on the current set of active committers and contributors? As I > > > understand it, the ASF encourages merit-based evolution, and the PPMC can > > > nominate active individuals to help strengthen the committee and ensure > > > the > > > project continues to progress in a healthy way. I’d appreciate any > > > guidance > > > on how we can approach this in line with ASF practices. > > > > > > Best, > > > Vinish > > >
