Hi Peter - Thanks for the update and also for your service as PMC Chair all this time! You definitely deserve a break!
(FWIW, I asked not as a criticism but because previous chair rotations were discussed here (as far as I remember!) and I wondered why this one was done privately.) Cheers, Simon On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 4:50 PM Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am not speaking for the PMC, but for myself and from my personal view. > I joined the Project in 2016. It has been my became Chairman in end of > 2017. As unexperienced as I have been it was the best move for me to go > into. > It have been an exiting and educating 2 year period as Chairman. Since the > PMC has decided we want to change the chair on regular bases and often I > fought for my availability until very late in this year. > But now I am relieved that I can relax a little from the mails. > > I announced early on private to give everyone on the PMC enough time to > think his or her availability through. After all it is a free choice to > stand up for this. > > The Chairman is in my eyes a sort of envoy between > ASF and PMC. I would not make much of a Fuzz about the change. This is > less important then the title implies. > I hope we can convince someone else to step up for 2021. Maybe again a > fresh face from the none ASF Members on the PMC. That would be super cool. > > I want to focus next year my time more on project building topics and on > development. So this is not to be seen as a stepping down. I would title it > more as a position shift. And I am very happy to know Jim will be on the > watch @board. I have no doubts that Jim is a good choice. > > I hope this extensive comment is helping everyone. If you have more I am > happy to answer them here on @dev. Just have some patience since due to the > shift I will maybe slower on answers. > > > Have fun > Peter > > >
