Please vote as to whether you think HBase should become a top-level Apache project.
I've included below a draft board resolution. It lists all current active HBase committers as initial members of the project management committee (PMC) and myself, Michael Stack, as the initial chair. Do the good people of Hadoop support sending this request on to the Hadoop PMC? Yours, St.Ack ------------ X. Establish the Apache HBase 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 data serialization 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 HBase Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a distributed database; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HBase" 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 HBase Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache HBase 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 HBase Project: * Michael Stack <st...@apache.org> * Jonathan Gray <jg...@apache.org> * Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> * John-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> * Ryan Rawson <raw...@apache.org> * Lars George <larsgeo...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Stack be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, 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 HBase 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 HBase Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Hadoop HBase sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Hadoop HBase sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.