+1 non-binding
This looks great to me :-D
I think formalizing the process in this way will help us maintain
consistency and transparency!

2025년 12월 7일 (일) PM 2:17, Wei Lee <[email protected]>님이 작성:

> + 1 binding
>
> A few nitpicks and questions
>
> > * The full, raw results for the survey should be published in full
>   each year for the entire community to read and benefit from. Publish
>   must be timely within 1-2 months after closure. The only
>   scrubbing/redacting allowed is of PII data or obvious fraudulent
>   answers.
>
> Just say "within 2 months" to be more explicit. Also, I think we "should"
> redact PII instead.
>
> > * If any entity wants to support/sponsor the survey and take the cost
>   connected with running, processing the survey - we will welcome such
>   sponsorship. This needs to be an explicit request after a call for
>   sponsors to the PMC and PMC has to approve it
>
> Does this imply the PMC should have a call for sponsors before the end of
> the calendar year?
>
>
> Best,
> Wei
>
> > On Dec 7, 2025, at 1:03 AM, Shahar Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > +1 binding - I think that these principles should be visible in the wiki
> :)
> >
> >
> > Shahar
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 00:09 Jens Scheffler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> It has been pointed out that the way we run our yearly community survey
> >> happens by inertia, without any formality to it. Now while I’m never one
> >> for too much formality, some here would be helpful.
> >> We discussed it in the Airflow PMC and with the outcome we now raise a
> >> vote on the devlist in public. Proposal is we formally accept the
> >> following:
> >>
> >>  * A yearly Airflow Community survey should be run, and it should run
> >>    proximate to the end of the calendar year.
> >>  * The intent of this survey is to understand the use of the software
> >>    and features used in order to understand where to focus future
> >>    development on and which features might be deprecated. But not
> >>    limited to. We are also interested in perceived quality and biggest
> >>    problems for which we even might need to elaborate a solution space.
> >>  * The questions for which are discussed on the dev list. We should
> >>    have a final lazy consensus to the dev list (or vote if we don’t see
> >>    consensus) on the questions before the survey is published. No
> >>    formal vote is required before finalising the questions or starting
> >>    the survey. It would be good to keep a majority of questions stable
> >>    such that we can see changes year-over-year.
> >>  * Questions must not involve collecting PII data. One exception is the
> >>    optional collecting of email addresses for delivering sponsor
> >>    incentives (i.e. training course, credits. See further on in this
> >>    document)
> >>  * There is no formal position or person responsible for generating the
> >>    questions. As with everything ASF related, all individuals are given
> >>    the opportunity to participate, but their influence is based on
> >>    publicly earned merit.
> >>  * The PMC will promote the survey via airflow.apache.org website -
> >>    including the banners on the website, and Apache Airflow Social
> >>    Media, Slack and similar channels.
> >>  * The survey should be conducted in a way such that not one person or
> >>    company gets more information than the others.
> >>  * The results should be processed/analysed and a summary published on
> >>    the Airflow website (and thus subject to normal PR review process by
> >>    committers and the PMC).
> >>  * The full, raw results for the survey should be published in full
> >>    each year for the entire community to read and benefit from. Publish
> >>    must be timely within 1-2 months after closure. The only
> >>    scrubbing/redacting allowed is of PII data or obvious fraudulent
> >>    answers.
> >>  * In case there is no appropriate survey platform run by the ASF
> >>    available for under the “apache.org” URL, the entity or people
> >>    running the survey will be free to host it elsewhere.
> >>  * If any entity wants to support/sponsor the survey and take the cost
> >>    connected with running, processing the survey - we will welcome such
> >>    sponsorship. This needs to be an explicit request after a call for
> >>    sponsors to the PMC and PMC has to approve it. We will also leave
> >>    freedom for the entity running the survey in the way to attract wide
> >>    audience (for example offering credits or free products as long as
> >>    they do not suggest being PMC endorsed; and to refer Apache Airflow
> >>    according to the nominative fair use.
> >>  * In cases of such sponsorship, the entity will be listed as sponsor
> >>    permanently  in the published Survey results - this is in accordance
> >>    with the  targeted-sponsorship policy of the ASF. We will inform
> >>    Fundraising of the ASF about this being a formal targeted
> >>    sponsorship by the PMC.
> >>
> >> This is just writing down what we do already (with the exception of the
> >> last two points which are a new addition and a more formal approach to
> >> the ad-hoc basis right now).
> >>
> >> Jens on behalf of the Airflow PMC.
> >>
> >> This email is calling a vote for the procedure, which will last for 5
> >> days - which means that it will end on December 8th, 2025 22:00 UTC.
> >> Everyone is encouraged to vote, although only PMC members and
> >> Committer's votes are considered binding. Members of the community are
> >> encouraged to vote with "(non-binding)".
> >>
> >> Consider this my +1 (binding) vote.
> >>
> >> Please vote accordingly:
> >>
> >> [ ] +1 approve
> >> [ ] +0 no opinion
> >> [ ] -1 disapprove with the reason
> >>
>
>

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