Wait. :-) I said preferably NOT me... Gj
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:19 PM Antonio Vieiro <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote: > +1 for Geertjan as PMC Chair! > > El El jue, 31 ene 2019 a las 14:57, Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> escribió: > > > Hi all, > > > > Here's the page describing what is needed for an incubating project to > > become a top level project: > > > > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > > > > In there is stated: > > > > "...you need to appoint a Chair for your project. It is up to the PPMC to > > choose one person to act as the chair after graduation." > > > > How do we want to do this, I suppose it is a question of putting vote > > threads together for as many people as want to volunteer to be the PMC > > chair? > > > > The tasks are light: "The primary duty of a PMC chair is providing > > quarterly reports to the board about the health and status of their > > project." > > > > See: https://apache.org/foundation/governance/pmcs.html > > > > From my perspective, it would be a strong indicator of the independence > of > > NetBeans from Oracle if the PMC chair were to NOT be from Oracle. The > > opposite argument is that every individual contributor is equal and it > > doesn't matter where the PMC chair comes from. Still, ideally, I think, > it > > would not be me or someone from Oracle. > > > > However, I believe there are several people available to take on the PMC > > chair role. Should we start be seeing who wants to volunteer themselves > for > > this role? Or how do we want to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > >
