Okay. Let's do that. We just need Pam to sign off, right? And is anyone else following this chain willing to be a committer? I have a few more interested people myself, but I'd like to know what I'm working with. On Apr 19, 2016 6:16 PM, "Emmanuel Lécharny" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 20/04/16 01:23, John D. Ament a écrit : > > Hi David, > > > > Quite a long list of emails you've sent. Not saying its a bad thing, but > > just getting caught up on them. > > > > So, looking at OpenAz's proposal, you're not listed as an initial > > committer. You would have needed to be invited as a committer on the > > project. > > > > At this point, the existing PPMC seems to have disbanded. There would be > > nothing stopping someone from forking on github and creating a separate > > project to continue on OpenAz, but as a different name. > > I would suggest another - and simpler - path : > - gather a few volunteers, and take over the project. > > I was expecting that the initial podling members would take care of > that, but beside Pam, there is *no* activity from the list of initial > committers : > > # Rich Levinson > # Hal Lockhart > # Prateek Mishra > # David Laurance > # Duanhua Tu > # Ajith Nair > # Srijith Nair > # Chris Rath > > So here, I would suggest to reboot this list of committers. That would > require the agreement of the podling PMC, of course. The best person to > get that done would obviously be Pam. > > Note that it would require a massive effort to get the project survive, > by agregating some new committers : you need to be at least 3, but that > would be the bare minimum. Expecting to get out of incubation with only > 3 *active* committers is more than optimistic... > > Keep in mind that The ASF is all about building a community, that would > guarantee that the project will survive the natural leave of some > committers in the ling run. If a project can't gather enough committers, > then the ASF is simply not the right place for it. > > If this can't work, then, yes, forking is probably the solution. > >
