+1. On 4/27/07, Marc Prud'hommeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, I third the "vote". On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Kevin Sutter wrote: > Patrick, > > On 4/27/07, Patrick Linskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> In terms of graduation, if we go the top-level route, I'd like to >> propose Craig as the PMC chair. > > > I second that "vote", if you are not interested. Craig has gotten > us out of > "Apache hot water" a few times with his background on Apache-isms. > And, he > has demonstrated his overall technical knowledge in JPA and > persistence > issues, in general. I would think Craig would make an excellent > PMC chair. > > Kevin > > I think that he'd be a good fit since >> he's quite active in the OpenJPA community, and also has a good >> deal of >> knowledge about and experience within Apache. I think that he >> would do a >> great job of continuing to represent Apache-isms to the OpenJPA >> community and vice-versa. >> >> -Patrick >> >> -- >> Patrick Linskey >> BEA Systems, Inc. >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> __ >> Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may >> contain >> information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and >> affiliated >> entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted >> and/or >> legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the >> individual >> or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended >> recipient, >> and have received this message in error, please immediately return >> this >> by email and then delete it. >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:50 PM >> > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org >> > Subject: [DISCUSS] OpenJPA Graduation >> > >> > OpenJPA has done a great job of forming a diverse community >> > around a great code base whose IP has been reviewed and >> > approved for release, and we're now a well-functioning, >> > project in the incubator. So we are now at the stage when we >> > should think about when and how to leave the incubator and >> > graduate to the larger Apache community. The document at [1] >> > describes readiness to graduate. >> > >> > There are two courses for graduating projects: to become an >> > independent Apache TLP or to join an existing TLP as a >> > sub-project. I believe that OpenJPA should become its own TLP >> > for a few reasons: the community is already very diverse and >> > has established a good working style; and there is no >> > existing TLP upon which OpenJPA depends. There is some >> > synergy with the DB project but no dependency relationship. >> > >> > As a TLP, OpenJPA would operate independent from other TLPs >> > and be responsible to the Apache board. As a TLP, the OpenJPA >> > community would decide on offering committerships to the >> > project, and what and when to release, subject to the >> > regulations of the ASF. >> > >> > So what does everyone think? >> > >> > Craig >> > >> > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/ >> > Process_Description.html#Graduation >> > >> > Craig Russell >> > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/ >> products/jdo >> > 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! >> > >> > >> >> Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may >> contain >> information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and >> affiliated >> entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted >> and/or >> legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the >> individual or >> entity named in this message. If you are not the intended >> recipient, and >> have received this message in error, please immediately return >> this by email >> and then delete it. >>