Generally the board likes to see at least one member be part of new PMCs. It is not a requirement but it is a preference. On 8 Jul 2014 19:44, "Andrea Pescetti" <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote: > >> I don't know where you got this, but it definitely is not true that >> every PMC chair is a member. This is not even a requirement. >> > > Sure. I became PMC chair before being voted in as a member, for example. > > It is >> possible and reasonable that an entire project community contains not a >> single ASF member, only committers. Certainly, members must be involved >> during incubation, but there's no requirement for them to stay on the >> project once it has graduated. >> > > This seems less likely. A cursory look at > http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html > seems to confirm that (almost! apparently vcl-pmc does not; but a smart > LDAP query is probably better than me at checking that) all PMCs do contain > at least a member. I remember that when OpenOffice graduated someone noted > that only a couple of PMC members were already ASF members, and I assume > that the same check is done on other projects, even if it is not a formal > requirement. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
