All, Thrift has been humming along nicely lately. We'd made several releases and added several committers. The Thrift community thinks now is a good time to consider graduation.
Please let me know if this resolution is insufficient in any way. -Bryan === Establish Apache Thrift 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 cross-language RPC and 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 "The Apache Thrift Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that The Apache Thrift Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software project related to cross-language RPC and serialization; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Thrift" 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 Thrift Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of The Apache Thrift 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 Thrift Project: * Bryan Duxbury (br...@rapleaf.com) * David Reiss (dre...@facebook.com) * Mark Slee (ms...@facebook.com) * Jake Luciani (jak...@gmail.com) * Todd Lipcon (t...@cloudera.com) * Anthony Molinaro (antho...@alumni.caltech.edu) * Esteve Fernandez (est...@sindominio.net) * Ben Maurer (ben.mau...@gmail.com) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bryan Duxbury be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Thrift, 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 Thrift Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Thrift podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator Thrift podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged.
