With 15 +1 votes (14 from PMC members) the proposal passes. Thanks
for voting.
Owen, please push this to the Apache board for their consideration.
Alan.
On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Alan Gates wrote:
I propose that Pig become a top level Apache project.
The Pig development community has already voted on and approved this
proposal. In summary, the community voted that all current active
committers (listed at http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/whoweare.html ) as
of August 18 2010 should become PMC members, and that Olga Natkovich
should be the PMC chair. They also agreed that adopting bylaws should
be among the first tasks of the new PMC. Full details of the vote can
be seen at http://bit.ly/c3GDyl
Please vote on sending this proposal to the Apache Board.
Below is a draft resolution to be sent to the Apache Board:
Establish the Apache Pig 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 parallel analysis of large
data sets 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 Pig Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Pig Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to parallel analysis of large data sets; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Pig" 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 Pig Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Pig 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 Pig Project:
* Benjamin Reed <br...@apache.org>
* Daniel Dai <da...@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <ga...@apache.org>
* Giridharen Kesavan <gkesa...@apache.org>
* Olga Natkovich <o...@apache.org>
* Pradeep Kamath <pradeep...@apache.org>
* Santhosh Srinivasan <s...@apache.org>
* Yan Zhou <y...@apache.org>
* Jeff Zhang <zjf...@apache.org>
* Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org>
* Richard Ding <rd...@apache.org>
* Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvrya...@apache.org>
* Thejas Nair <the...@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Olga Natkovich
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, 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 Pig 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 Pig Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Pig Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Hadoop Pig sub-project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Hadoop Pig sub-project encumbered upon the
Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.
