On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:30 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> You would probably be better served by having someone else volunteer to be > PMC chair. My reasoning for that is exactly for the same reason you put > yourself there. You are the most active committer and obviously aren’t > going anywhere. Having someone else be chair insures that someone else is > staying fairly involved in the activities of the project, even if they > aren’t the most active committer. You need at least 3 active PMC members so > use any opportunity you can to make sure you stay above that mark. > > Ralph > This is a valuable argument but my preference is that we begin with Daniel and possibly consider this opportunity in the future: I think it is important, for the continuity of the history of the project (before/after graduation), to assign the PMC chair role to the most influential person in the FreeMarker community (which is also an ASF member); also, at the moment there are no issues in identifying +3 active PMC members and my hope is that people will stay involved with the project because they care and not because of the responsibility assigned to them. Jacopo