Thanks for setting this up, Jim! Can confirm that the vote request came through.
-Todd On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I have sent out the Chair election ballot via steve.apache.org to people > who will be listed in our resolution as PMC members, via email addresses (@ > apache.org). Please vote. The vote closes Friday. > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > I have a resolution with a blank space for chair, and the community voted > > unanimously to graduate. > > > > I also have a set of people who will make up the PMC (should we > graduate), > > based on their responses to the email I sent. > > > > We have two volunteers for PMC chair. I'll call a vote with potential PMC > > members as voters, starting on Monday using https://steve.apache.org/, > > following examples from other ASF projects. > > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > >> I think it would be a good time to graduate. I'm very proud of the > >> progress the community has made in terms of acting in an Apache way. > >> > >> Some logistics: > >> > >> I would be happy to serve as an initial chair. > >> > >> I'll draft a resolution, with a blank space for chair. This doesn't mean > >> we have to agree now is the time to graduate, but we'll have it > available > >> for discussion and revision whenever we are ready. > >> > >> If we decide to graduate now, maybe we could email everyone who is on > the > >> PPMC, ccing private@, to see if they are still interested in being on > >> the PMC, and taking no response to mean "yes" until we hear otherwise, > in > >> case someone is on vacation away from email, or in the hospital, or > >> something. > >> > >> Also, mentors are traditionally included in a graduating podling's PMC, > >> right? > >> > >> 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 > >>> > >> > >> > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
