It has come to my attention that this project has made no effort to maintain its list of PPMC members. A best-effort was made by Gavin McDonald to construct that list from the subscriber base to thrift-private@ which may be found here:
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/thrift This project remains at a crossroads, and my personal graduation vote based on the current trajectory would not be favorable. Apache projects are not cathedrals, they are bazaars. The committers on the project are facilitators, not gatekeepers. Every person who has ever submitted a patch to either jira or this mailing list should be encouraged by the existing devs to become a committer on this project, but that never happens here. Instead people fork, like what happened with c-thrift. That is not goodness from an Apache standpoint; it would be far better to create a sandbox in the subversion tree for experimentation by community members. Trunk should be treated as Commit-then-Review. It is a-ok to break it, and anyone running trunk in production better be prepared to deal with the fallout of that decision. Look, cassandra came into Apache a year or so after thrift did, and they have already graduated. Part of the reason why they have been successful where thrift has not is because the Facebook devs there were not allowed to place downward pressure on the community the way they have here. The sooner this community starts routing around them, the more likely this project has a chance of real success at Apache. I have asked for special permission from my colleagues in the Incubator to experiment with processes designed to get out of your way in as far as it is possible, so there can be no excuses as to why Thrift is not succeeding except for the fact that the devs have not done an adequate job of growing the community. I expect that permission to be granted very soon, and would like those committers on this project who still care about it to take advantage of this special opportunity before it's too late. So far Bryan is the only person I would trust to make an IPMC member or serve as Chair for this project should it pursue graduation, but if others start showing more active interest I am more than happy to consider them.
