Hello, As you may or may not know, a decision was reached a couple of weeks ago by the ASF Board of Directors to remove Marko Rodriguez from TinkerPop's Project Management Committee (PMC). For those who do not know, the PMC is responsible for the management and oversight of an Apache project and while his removal from that committee does not prevent him from contributing to TinkerPop (he is still an official Committer), he can no longer be officially involved in PMC duties[1].
So, why so late in this announcement? Well, that falls on my shoulders. What do you do when you have a new PMC member or committer? it's easy. You celebrate with an announcement and a funny picture of Gremlin. But, what do you do when a Founder/PMC member is removed? It's certainly not celebratory and not something there is much precedence for. The difficulties of this event combined with other stresses in my private life didn't allow me to see that the community needed at least some basic statement on this change. I should have done this earlier and for that I apologize to our community and to Marko. Thank you, Stephen https://apache.org/dev/pmc.html#policy
