On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Gabriel Reid <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Matthias Friedrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 2013-01-31, Josh Wills wrote: > > > I was planning on using the graduation charter for Apache Flex as a > > > baseline for our own vote: > > > > > > http://markmail.org/message/ps3rjgv76vlw4sh5 > > > > > > My thought was to include all current committers as the initial > members. > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > > FWIW, this looks good to me too. > > > > > > > For the VP/PMC chair role, I was going to nominate Matthias. I am > firmly > > of > > > the opinion that he did more of the important-but-not-fun work that was > > > required to turn Crunch into a real Apache project, and I felt like the > > > honor of the first VP of Crunch as a TLP should go to him. > > > > > > With that said, Matthias, I don't want to impose any additional work on > > you > > > that you wouldn't be up for, so if you would like to decline, I would > > > certainly understand. > > > > I'm flattered, thank you, but I have to decline. It's not about the time > > or additional work - I'm definitely willing to help out in organizational > > things like graduation or reporting duties, no matter who becomes PMC > > chair. However, I think there's a candidate who's much better suited. > > > > I'm not sure how the nomination/election process works here, or if there > > is one, but I'd like to nominate you, Josh. Crunch is your baby, you have > > spent more time on it than anybody else - not just coding, but even more > > imporantly in building a community. You are always willing to discuss > > things, you stay polite even when you disagree and you make compromises > > when the majority of the team wants to take a different road. That's > > worth a lot, so I think you would be the perfect candidate. > > > > Well, when Josh nominated you (Matthias) for the role, I felt that it was > certainly > by far the most logical decision, as it feels like you're made to do the > job. > > However, it appears that among your many skills, you're also very good at > making a case for Josh to be the PMC Chain :-) > Seriously. That was a really nice thing to say, Matthias-- thank you. I hope you all know how much I enjoy working on this stuff with you. It is the part of my work life that I enjoy the most. I'm concerned about getting into one of those comical and cliched "you take it, no you take it, no you take it" situations, and I just arrived back in SF from a long week of travel. I'm going to sleep on it and see if I can come up with a good counterargument. :-) > > I personally feel that either you or Josh would be great for the role, and > that's > based on all the points that both of you have made about why the other one > would be great for the job. As far as I'm concerned, it does need to be one > of > the two of you, but I'm fine with either one. > > - Gabriel >
