Generally good mentors recognize candidates from their podlings who would make good IPMC members and nominate them privately, just as podlings nominate members for their own PPMC.
>________________________________ > From: Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> >To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2 > >Sounds intriguing. How is this done? I'm afraid I'm vague as to the >process by which people become IPMC members. > >Karl > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> The solution is simple, bring more IPMC members >> in from the ManifoldCF podling. That is exactly >> what we did for Lucy! >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> >>>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>>Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:33 PM >>>Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2 >>> >>>On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:11:49PM -0500, Karl Wright wrote: >>>> Waiting for the last IPMC vote has become the longest and most >>>> uncertain part of the ManifoldCF release process. Considering the >>>> amount of effort and good work that the committers put into each >>>> release, it's surely not too much to ask for someone here to have a >>>> look at it? (We apologize; we really hate to bother you all, but >>>> those ARE the rules...) >>> >>>(Apologies in advance that this isn't a VOTE email...) >>> >>>For what it's worth, I tried to review a release candidate for an earlier >>>ManifoldCF release, but I had to give up because I just didn't feel qualified >>>to evaluate the legal aspect given ManifoldCF's large number of dependencies >>>and my limited Java-fu. >>> >>>I find it very challenging to step in as a freelance IPMC member to cast a >>>release vote on a project I haven't been involved with. >>> >>>I definitely consider the difficulty in scraping up these votes to be a >>>significant weakness in how the Incubator operates right now, but I don't >>>have >>>any ideas about how to improve the situation. :( >>> >>>Marvin Humphrey >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>>For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >>> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
