I propose that this vote should stay open longer than 72 hours given that we are coming up on New Years and many people who would wish to weigh in might be on vacation right now.
Tim > On Dec 29, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Consistent contributors are frequently invited to be committers and later > PMC members. Having at least three people maintaining anything is an Apache > standard for maintaining vendor neutrality, ensuring a minimum number of > people can verify release candidates to address security issues or any other > releases. > > — > Matt Sicker > >> On Dec 29, 2021, at 14:41, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Log4j is owned by the Logging Services PMC. You cannot incubate it without >> this PMC’s approval. >> >> Exactly. As far as I understand, Logging pmc should accept patches and >> release fixes or they should approve reincubating. >> Of course, you can try rejecting patches and disapprove reincubation, >> however, that won't hold water. >> >> Unfortunately, I have not seen the response from the logging pmc regarding >> approve/disapprove re-incubating. There's a pending question to Ron still. >> >> I do not consider forks outside of the ASF. >> >>> But I notice the one topic you did not respond to was the lack of >> interested people other than yourself. Why is that? >> >> I find the question irrelevant, and I find it has nothing to do with >> accepting patches and releasing 1.2 >> I belive there were even people on incubator thread, so it is strange why >> do you demand that I provide you with a list of rock-star 1.x maintainers. >> >> 1) I can't guarantee I will be alive in February. Can you guarantee all the >> logging pmc members will be alive then? I doubt so. So I find that >> questions like "how can we be sure you will send patches" too intimate. >> >> 2) I have already filed a patch for buildscripts. Whould you review it and >> merge? >> >> 3) Suppose I find a team (e.g 4-5 ASF fellows) who are willing to support >> 1.2. What do you do then? Would you add all of them to the logging pmc? >> I don't really see the point why do you ask, and at the same time I can't >> guarantee the people I gather will be alive tomorrow. I can't guarantee >> they will always have interest in 1.2 >> >> Vladimir
