Hello everyone, the OpenNLP community has voted to graduate and requests that the IPMC vote on recommending this resolution to the ASF Board.
Community graduation vote: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-opennlp-dev/201112.mbox/%3c4edd484c.5020...@gmail.com%3E Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend OpenNLP's graduation [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Regards, Jörn ================ ## Resolution to create a TLP from graduating Incubator podling X. Establish the Apache OpenNLP 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 the processing of natural language text supported by machine learning 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 OpenNLP Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenNLP Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the processing of natural language text supported by machine learning; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache OpenNLP" 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 OpenNLP Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache OpenNLP 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 OpenNLP Project: William Silvia <co...@apache.org> Thomas Morton <tsmor...@apache.org> Jason Baldridge <jbald...@apache.org> James Kosin <jko...@apache.org> Jörn Kottmann <jo...@apache.org> Aliaksandr Autayeu <auta...@apache.org> Boris Galitsky <bgalit...@apache.org> Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> Benson Margulies <bimargul...@apache.org> Isabel Drost <exam...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jörn Kottmann be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenNLP, 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 OpenNLP 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 OpenNLP Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenNLP Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator OpenNLP podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator OpenNLP podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org