Hi Everyone, This is a new VOTE to decide if Apache Spark should graduate from the Incubator. Please VOTE on the resolution pasted below the ballot. I'll leave this VOTE open for at least 72 hours.
Thanks! [ ] +1 Graduate Apache Spark from the Incubator. [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't graduate Apache Spark from the Incubator because.. Here is my +1 binding for graduation. Cheers, Chris ---- snip WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to fast and flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Spark Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to fast and flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Spark" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Spark Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Spark Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Spark Project: * Mosharaf Chowdhury <[email protected]> * Jason Dai <[email protected]> * Tathagata Das <[email protected]> * Ankur Dave <[email protected]> * Aaron Davidson <[email protected]> * Thomas Dudziak <[email protected]> * Robert Evans <[email protected]> * Thomas Graves <[email protected]> * Andy Konwinski <[email protected]> * Stephen Haberman <[email protected]> * Mark Hamstra <[email protected]> * Shane Huang <[email protected]> * Ryan LeCompte <[email protected]> * Haoyuan Li <[email protected]> * Sean McNamara <[email protected]> * Mridul Muralidharam <[email protected]> * Kay Ousterhout <[email protected]> * Nick Pentreath <[email protected]> * Imran Rashid <[email protected]> * Charles Reiss <[email protected]> * Josh Rosen <[email protected]> * Prashant Sharma <[email protected]> * Ram Sriharsha <[email protected]> * Shivaram Venkataraman <[email protected]> * Patrick Wendell <[email protected]> * Andrew Xia <[email protected]> * Reynold Xin <[email protected]> * Matei Zaharia <[email protected]> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matei Zaharia be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Spark, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Spark podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Spark podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. ----
