I am in favor of graduation. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey Impala community, > > It's been a while that all of the Impala infrastructure has been moved > over, and the community appears to be functioning healthily, generating new > releases on a regular cadence as well as adding new committers and PPMC > members. All of the branding stuff seems great, and the user mailing list > has a healthy amount of traffic and a good track record of answering > questions when they come up. > > As a mentor I think it's probably time to discuss graduation. The project > is already functioning in the same way as your typical Apache TLP and it > seems like it's time to become one. > > Any thoughts? If everyone is on board, the next step would be: > > 1. Pick the initial PMC chair for the TLP. According to the published > Impala Bylaws it seems that this is meant to rotate annually, so no need to > stress too much about it. > > A couple obvious choices here would be Marcel (as the original founder of > the project) or perhaps Jim (who has done yeoman's work on a lot of the > incubation process, podling reports, etc). Others could certainly volunteer > or be nominated as well. > > 2. Draft a Resolution for the PPMC and IPMC to vote upon. > -- the resolution would include the above-decided chair as well as the list > of initial PMC, etc. > -- the Initial PMC could be just the current list of PPMC, or you could > consider adding others at this point as well. > > > I can help with the above process but figured I'd solicit opinions first on > whether the communit feels it's ready to graduate. > > Thanks > Todd >
