All, We need a resolution before we can do the vote on incubator general. The text is pretty boilerplate, but make sure that I got all of the spots fixed and got all of the names right. I've removed Arun Suresh and Phillip Rhodes since they haven't participated in the project while it has been in incubation.
-- Owen ## Resolution to create a TLP from graduating Incubator podling X. Establish the Apache Giraph Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to a highly scaleable, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP)-based graph processing framework for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Giraph Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Giraph Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a distributed computing graph processing framework; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Giraph" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Giraph Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Giraph Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Giraph Project: * Avery Ching <ach...@apache.org> * Claudio Martella <clau...@apache.org> * Dmitriy V. Ryaboy <dvrya...@apache.org> * Eugene Joseph Koontz <ekoo...@apache.org> * Hyunsik Choi <hyun...@apache.org> * Jakob Homan <jgho...@apache.org> * Jake Mannix <jman...@apache.org> * Christian Kunz <kunz...@apache.org> * Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> * Sebastian Schelter <s...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Avery Ching be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Giraph, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Giraph PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Giraph Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Giraph Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Giraph podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Giraph podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.