I think the advice from Alan was to wait for a while to add new committers to the PMC, so I guess obviously if we make people wait a year we can't really increase the PMC diversity very rapidly...
Thoughts from any Apache folks on this? I think we are not too religious one way or the other but are just looking for the official "best practice". -Jay On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I support graduation. > > Is diversity in PPMC a requirement for graduation? Currently, Kafka has > diversity in committers, but not in PPMC. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > Our little project is going pretty well: we have good discussion and > > questions on the mailing lists, very active development, and a good set > of > > production usage. What do people think about pursuing graduation to be a > > top-level project? > > > > The criteria for this are documented here: > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > > > > By my reading the main requirements on an incubator for graduation are: > > > > - Successfully create an apache release. > > - Develop a diverse community (described in more detail here: > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community). It > boils > > down to being an open community that fosters discussion and is not > > dependent on a single company for success. > > - Fulfill various technical requirements: project naming, etc. > > > > I think we have met these requirements. > > > > We struggled a bit with licensing and packaging issues but we got those > > issues resolved and did a release and this should be pretty easy going > > forward. > > > > This started as a LinkedIn project, and there are a still a number of us > at > > LinkedIn, but the discussion, JIRAs, patches, etc seems to be much more > > well dispersed over a broad community of users and contributors. > > > > It would be good to here from anyone following the list what they think. > > Are there other things we should do either before (or in parallel to) > > pursuing graduation? > > > > I would also appreciate help from anyone with Apache experience > navigating > > the process. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Jay > > >
