I've also made quite a few commits to OpenAz, even though I'm a mentor, so not sure if I should be counted as a committer or not ;-)
Rebooting the PMC could work, but I think we need at least 4 or 5 people willing to state that they will be actively working on the project. It would be helpful as well if they could state what it is they would actually work on. Colm. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:06 AM, David Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
