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> From: Alan Gates <[email protected]>
> Date: August 23, 2010 10:38:12 AM PDT
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [VOTE] Pig to become a TLP
> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>
> I propose that Pig become a top level Apache project.
>
> The Pig development community has already voted on and approved this
> proposal. In summary, the community voted that all current active
> committers (listed at http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/whoweare.html ) as
> of August 18 2010 should become PMC members, and that Olga Natkovich
> should be the PMC chair. They also agreed that adopting bylaws should
> be among the first tasks of the new PMC. Full details of the vote can
> be seen at http://bit.ly/c3GDyl
>
> Please vote on sending this proposal to the Apache Board.
>
> Below is a draft resolution to be sent to the Apache Board:
>
> Establish the Apache Pig 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 parallel analysis of large
> data sets 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 Pig Project",
> be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
> Foundation; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache Pig Project be and hereby is
> responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
> related to parallel analysis of large data sets; and be
> it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Pig" 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 Pig Project, and to have primary responsibility
> for management of the projects within the scope of
> responsibility of the Apache Pig 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 Pig Project:
>
> * Benjamin Reed <[email protected]>
> * Daniel Dai <[email protected]>
> * Alan Gates <[email protected]>
> * Giridharen Kesavan <[email protected]>
> * Olga Natkovich <[email protected]>
> * Pradeep Kamath <[email protected]>
> * Santhosh Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> * Yan Zhou <[email protected]>
> * Jeff Zhang <[email protected]>
> * Ashutosh Chauhan <[email protected]>
> * Richard Ding <[email protected]>
> * Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]>
> * Thejas Nair <[email protected]>
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Olga Natkovich
> be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, 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 Pig 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 Pig Project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache Pig Project be and hereby
> is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
> Hadoop Pig sub-project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
> Hadoop Pig sub-project encumbered upon the
> Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.
>
>
>
>
