We have had several people write in to general@ over the past few months with this type of request. In at least one case a request triggered a vote on the private list. We should update the incubator site with guidance on what is the best way to approach the IPMC if this isn't ideal.
> On Dec 12, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, James Taylor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm the PMC Chair for Apache Phoenix and a PMC member of Apache Calcite, >> both top level project and both of which I went through the incubation >> process. Recently several projects interested in going through incubation >> approached me to be a mentor, hence my interest in joining - so that I can >> help guide them through this process. I understand that the process for non >> ASF members is to initiate a vote on the private list. I'd appreciate it if >> that could start at your earliest convenience. >> >> Please let me know if I need to perform any further action before a vote is >> started. > > Hi James, thanks for your interest. For what it's worth, there's no > reason you couldn't help out a podling without being a Mentor. And > the process for non-ASF-Members joining the Incubator PMC is actually > the same as for any other Apache PMC -- someone earns merit and then > is invited to join. > > Regardless of what happens in this specific case, if people are going > to initiate direct requests like this, I wish they would use the > private list. Every once in a while somebody who has not earned merit > makes a request to join a PMC; it is awkward to rebuff such requests > discreetly when the request is public. Apache private lists are not > supposed to be used a lot, but personnel discussions are one of the > main reasons we have them. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
