Agreed, expressions of support are always appreciated. :-) I only meant to point out that an official vote is not always required when support has already been expressed, not to discourage anyone from being supportive. +1 away!
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > As Billie says, our bylaws don’t require a vote to assign a release > manager. > However, an RM certainly needs the support of the community to be > effective, > so all these +1’s are very much appreciated! :-) > Thanks, > --Matt > > On 3/22/17, 8:30 AM, "Billie Rinaldi" <bil...@apache.org> wrote: > > Not everything needs to be voted upon. The ASF guidelines and Metron's > bylaws specify which actions require a vote. Other types of things, > like > choosing a release manager, can be approved by lazy consensus. I just > noticed that Metron's bylaws have slightly different definitions for > the > approval types than the ASF typically uses. I'd recommend changing > these to > the standard ASF definitions. Specifically, Lazy Consensus does not > require > a vote and thus no +1s are needed (https://www.apache.org/ > foundation/glossary.html#LazyConsensus) and Lazy Majority and Lazy 2/3 > Majority should be called Majority (https://www.apache.org/ > foundation/glossary.html#MajorityApproval) and 2/3 Majority. > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Justin Leet <justinjl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Right now it's just support, not a vote. I assume, based on our past > > practices, that there will be a separate [VOTE] thread. > > > > Justin > > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Otto Fowler < > ottobackwa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > +1 but is this explicitly an official vote? > > > > > > > > > On March 21, 2017 at 13:51:16, Justin Leet (justinjl...@gmail.com) > > wrote: > > > > > > +1 for Matt > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:21 PM, zeo...@gmail.com < > zeo...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > +1 for mattf > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:04 AM Ryan Merriman < > merrim...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1 for Matt > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Casey, you’ve been a great release manager. I know how much > detail > > > > > effort > > > > > > goes into this role. > > > > > > > > > > > > I am willing to serve as RM for the next while, if the > community > > > would > > > > > > like. I was the RM for Hadoop for about a year, and in fact > was RM > > > for > > > > > its > > > > > > 1.0 release. Granted that was a while ago, but overall > process > > > doesn’t > > > > > seem > > > > > > to have changed much :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > --Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/21/17, 7:32 AM, "Casey Stella" <ceste...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Right, Billie is exactly right. Working with the community to > > > > > > constructing > > > > > > releases that conform to apache standards and policies is > the main > > > > > > duty. > > > > > > This will (hopefully) be our first set of releases outside > of the > > > > > > incubator, so if I'm allowed to be biased, I'm hoping that > someone > > > > > with > > > > > > previous release management experience in other projects will > > > > > > volunteer. > > > > > > We're leaving the nest a bit and having an experienced hand > at the > > > > > > tiller > > > > > > would be advantageous. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Billie Rinaldi < > > > > bil...@apache.org> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > See http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing#release_ > manager > > > > > and > > > > > > > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html for > information > > > > on > > > > > > the > > > > > > > tasks that a release manager performs. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Khurram Ahmed < > > > > > > khurramah...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Casey it would be helpful if you could outline the > > > > > > responsibilities of a > > > > > > > > release manager for the Metron project. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 21, 2017 6:57 PM, "Casey Stella" < > ceste...@gmail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've been extremely honored to spend the last few > months as > > > > the > > > > > > Metron > > > > > > > > > Release Manager. That being said, my watch is ended > and it's > > > > > > time for > > > > > > > > > another release manager to step into my place. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Who would like to volunteer to be release manager for > the > > > > next > > > > > > release > > > > > > > of > > > > > > > > > Metron? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Casey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
