Great to see the graduation discussion come by and certainly agree with you that Airavata headed in the right direction within the last year. Thanks to the great Mentors Airavata was blessed with and the veteran commiters (Chathura Herath, Srinath Perera, Eran Chinthaka, Thilina Gunarathne among others) playing a key role as secondary mentors in guiding the project. Full credit to the Airavata community for really grasping the apache way in no time, Bingo!!
Hi Chris, As for the chair, I am certainly humbled for your mention, and a big thank you. I did not put a whole lot of thought into it, but I am seriously neutral. In addition to the responsibilities you mention, I have seen Matt Franklin do a great job in showing Chair duties by practice in Rave in terms of over all direction, taking the lead on branding and other graduation responsibilities. For Airavata a good additional task will be to ensure third party dependencies are minimized and use the sustainable dependencies and trim of any legacy ones. Looking forward for the project to graduate and march ahead, Suresh On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Airavata has just made its 0.4 release, the project has added a bunch of new > contributors, > all discussion has been on list, the licenses for the software are ALv2 and > compatible and > everyone around here seems to "get it". > > Time to graduate in my opinion. So, the next question is, who's the chair. > Suresh and/or Marlon > have my VOTE. Since Suresh is already an ASF member, it might be good to give > Marlon a shot > at it that way he gets the broader Foundation perspective and view, but I > think Suresh has done > a lot more of the dev wrangling and leadership. > > Either one would make a fine chair IMHO. BTW, the role of the chair is to > provide reports on the > status of the project to the board, and be the "eyes and ears of the board" > on the project. So, it's > not a glamorous job by any means, but it does carry with it certain > responsibilities that I think > either one of them can fill. > > OK, once we decide on the chair, (let's discuss it here), then I'll draft a > board resolution and > then we can call a VOTE. Great work to get here guys. You're almost there. > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
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