On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > >> The question of diversity in this case is not "are we enough >> men/women/whatever", the question here is "is there a single corporate >> entity with a deciding vote in the project?". >> > > Actually, I would hope that the criterion is whether there is a single > corporate entity, the distraction of which would effectively kill the > project. > > And we do need to look at Ambari as a precedent. Even now the PMC has 30 > members from one company and 7 from other companies. No other company has > more than two PMC members and all of the top 24 contributors are from the > majority company. I would be very surprised if this project could survive > a withdrawal of support from that one company. > > Yet we graduated Ambari without a peep. Not surprisingly, most of the > votes were cast by employees of that one company. But nobody complained at > all. > > So it behooves us as some critique Ignite for lack of diversity to ask > whether precedent matters at all here. > > Does it?
Speaking generally: I don't think so. No one noticed or complained is hardly reason to ignore problems, (if it is indeed a problem) or to say that such decisions are now binding. It might be a different matter if it was explicitly acknowledged. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
