Hi Tianqi - +1 . I like the idea to grow diversity at the project and encourage communication beyond people sitting next to each other. I also support the way you described as guideline, not has a hard rule. I think it is important we focus on merit and contributions when evaluating nominee for committer and PPMC.
Carin started a draft document for revised criteria for committer and PPMC membership <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Become+an+Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+Committer+and+PPMC+Member+Proposal>. I suggest to contribute, provide feedback and suggestion including your proposal. Steffen On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:22 AM Tianqi Chen <tqc...@apache.org> wrote: > Dear MXNet Community: > > There has been a great discussion going on in terms of > PMC/Committer Criteria. As a community move forward, it is important to > make the community inclusive to everyone and encourage folks to work > together. > > I want to propose the following proposal courtesy: when a PMC proposes a > committer/PMC member, for courtesy of the community, she/he should only > propose a person from a different organization(company). > > The idea behind that is that the Apache project goes beyond a single > organization, it is important to recognize others, including those from a > different organization in the community, and get your merit being > recognized by others. > > Admittedly, this would also give more "power" to the PMC members from > minority organizations -- which I think is a good thing. This might also > encourage everyone to work together and talk to folks who are beyond your > next door > > Tianqi >
