Hi folks, The Apache Spark community has VOTEd to graduate from the Apache incubator (vote thread: http://s.apache.org/kq, discussion thread: http://s.apache.org/aEQ).
I’m now calling an official IPMC VOTE to make this happen as well. Here’s the community tally: +1 Matei Zaharia Reynold Xin Tathagata Das Sean McNamara Patrick Wendell Mark Hamstra Chris Mattmann * Tom Graves Henry Saputra * Andy Konwinski Josh Rosen Mosharaf Chowdhury Mridul Muralidharan Nick Pentreath Andrew Xia Haoyuan Li Sandy Ryza Sebastian Schelter * Kostas Sakellis Christopher Nguyen Aaron Davidson Shivaram Venkataraman Kay Ousterhout Evan Sparks Xuefeng Wu Konstantin Boudnik Rahul Chugh Prashant Sharma Stephen Haberman Prabeesh K. Saisai Shao Junfeng Feng Jason Dai Stevo Slavic Heiko Braun Xia Zhu Manoj Awasthi +0 (none) -1 (none) * indicates IPMC member We’ve made three releases in the incubator, added new committers and IPMC members, checked off the various requirements to migrate the development process to the ASF, and more generally worked to build this community in the Apache way. Please VOTE to graduate Apache Spark from the incubator. I’ll leave the VOTE open for 96 hours, until February 4th, 2014. The graduation resolution is pasted below. Thanks! Matei and the Apache Spark community ---- snip 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, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to fast and flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Spark Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to efficient cluster management, resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Spark" 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 Spark Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Spark 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 Spark Project: * Mosharaf Chowdhury <mosha...@apache.org> * Jason Dai <jason...@apache.org> * Tathagata Das <t...@eecs.berkeley.edu> * Ankur Dave <ankurd...@gmail.com> * Aaron Davidson <aarondavid...@berkeley.edu> * Thomas Dudziak <to...@apache.org> * Robert Evans <bo...@apache.org> * Thomas Graves <tgra...@apache.org> * Andy Konwinski <and...@apache.org> * Stephen Haberman <steph...@apache.org> * Mark Hamstra <markhams...@apache.org> * Shane Huang <shane_hu...@apache.org> * Ryan LeCompte <ryanlecom...@apache.org> * Haoyuan Li <haoy...@apache.org> * Sean McNamara <mcnam...@apache.org> * Mridul Muralidharam <mrid...@yahoo-inc.com> * Kay Ousterhout <k...@eecs.berkeley.edu> * Nick Pentreath <mln...@apache.org> * Imran Rashid <im...@quantifind.com> * Charles Reiss <wog...@apache.org> * Josh Rosen <joshro...@apache.org> * Prashant Sharma <prash...@apache.org> * Ram Sriharsha <harsh...@yahoo-inc.com> * Shivaram Venkataraman <shiva...@apache.org> * Patrick Wendell <pwend...@apache.org> * Andrew Xia <xiajunl...@gmail.com> * Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> * Matei Zaharia <ma...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matei Zaharia be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Spark, 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 Apache Spark Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Spark podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Spark 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