+1 --Konstantin
On 4/6/2010 1:15 PM, Doug Cutting wrote:
Please vote as to whether you think Avro should become a top-level Apache project, as mentioned previously on this list. I've included below a draft board resolution. It lists all current committers as the initial members of the project management committee (PMC) and Matt Massie as the initial chair. Does the Hadoop PMC support sending this proposal on to the board? Thanks, Doug ------------ X. Establish the Apache Avro Project 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 related to data serialization for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Avro Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Avro Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to data serialization; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Avro" 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 Avro Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Avro 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 Avro Project: * Doug Cutting <[email protected]> * Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected]> * Jeff Hodges <[email protected]> * Matt Massie <[email protected]> * Philip Zeyliger <[email protected]> * Scott Banachowski <[email protected]> * Scott Carey <[email protected]> * Sharad Agarwal <[email protected]> * Thiruvalluvan M. G. <[email protected]> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matt Massie be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, 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 initial Apache Avro PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Avro Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Avro Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Hadoop Avro sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Hadoop Avro sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.
