SGTM -- where do we vote? On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey Guys, > > It sounds like we need to do a little more work on the Vector proposal > before the board would like to consider it. The main point of contention > right now is the name of the project. We need to decide on a name and get > it signed off through PODLINGNAMESEARCH. > > Naming is extremely subjective so I'd like to propose a process for > selection that minimizes pain. This is an initial proposal and > > We do the naming in the following steps > - 1: Collect a set of names to be considered > - 2: Run a vote for 2 days where each member ranks their top 10 options > 1..10 > - 3: Take the top ten vote getters and do a basic analysis of whether we > think that any have legal issues. Keep dropping names that have this until > we get with 10 reasonably solid candidate names > - 5: Take the top ten names and give people 48 hours to rank their top 3 > names > - 6: Start a PODLINGNAMESEARCH on the top rank one, if that doesn't work, > try the second and third options. > > I suggest we take name suggestions for step 1 from everyone but then > constrain the voting to the newly proposed project [1]. We could just do > this in a private email thread but I think doing it on Drill dev is better > in the interest of transparency. This isn't the perfect place for that but > I'm not sure a better place exists. > > I'm up for changing any or all of this depending on what others think. > Just wanted to get the ball rolling on a proposed process. > > If this works, I've posted a doc at [2] that we can use for step 1. > > Thanks, > Jacques > > [1] List of proposed new project members/voters: Todd Lipcon, Ted Dunning, > Michael Stack, P. Taylor Goetz, Julian Hyde, Julien Le Dem, Jacques Nadeau, > James Taylor, Jake Luciani, Parth Chandra, Alex Levenson, Marcel Kornacker, > Steven Phillips, Hanifi Gunes, Wes McKinney, Jason Altekruse, David Alves, > Zain Asgar, Ippokratis Pandis, Abdel Hakim Deneche, Reynold Xin. > [2] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q6UqluW6SLuMKRwW2TBGBzHfYLlXYm37eKJlIxWQGQM/edit#gid=0 > > > -- Alex Levenson @THISWILLWORK
