Hi, This is to discuss and clarify the PPMC membership. As evident during the first release vote, there have been grossly inconsistent expectations on who is on the PPMC.
As most of us have learned meanwhile, unless documented otherwise at time of incubation, the PPMC is the list of initial committers: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApexProposal#Initial_Committers In fact, as you can see, there are 49 people in the PPMC now. Several folks expressed their surprise about this and indeed the intention was different. We wanted to start the PPMC with the set of 6 committers of the pre-incubation Apex repository and then grow by voting in new folks as we go. Unfortunately that wasn't documented to the IPMC. Some of the initial committers expressed the desire to put this topic up for discussion and build consensus how we want to shape the PPMC and future PMC. Folks seem to prefer a policy that is based on participation and contribution. Here are examples of what that could comprise: - Code (obviously!) - Reviewing pull requests - Documentation - Organizing meetups and other events - Participation on email list - Web site work - Release management and verification - Publishing papers and blogs - Presenting at conferences Next, there have been suggestions how such policy can be reflected in actual (P)PMC membership, examples: - Trim PPMC to reasonable size. How? Folks that neither expect nor want to be in the PPMC may offer to resign and continue as committer. - At time of graduation, establish the PMC as the subset of active PPMC members, based on activity during incubation. Starting with a realistic base allows us to grow the community and add committers and PPMC members organically. Conceivably, initial committers that had not had the chance to participate since incubation, may do so in the future and if inclined, earn their membership. This then can be seen as growth and diversification. Note following question in the incubator podling status report: When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Please express your thoughts on how to take it forward. Thomas
