Great ideas, thanks Justin! Justin Mclean wrote on 11/6/18 3:20 AM: > Hi, > > I looked at the board resolution for the creation of the IPMC [1] and it says > nothing about how IPMC members should be added so from that I take it that > the IPMC can decide how it wants to do that.
The IPMC is a PMC just like any other PMC. How the PMC decides to choose new PMC members to recommend for a board ACK is up to the PMC, as long as it's documented clearly. > Currently the IPMC can vote people in (which is not so common) or an ASF > member can request it. I’m not sure where the ASF member requirement came > from and wasn’t able to find the discussion about this on the incubator list. > (If anyone knows please point me to it.) IMO the "ASF Members can request recommendation without vote" is because of two factors: experience and oversight. We (hope) Members have the skills as you note as well. Separately, since the IPMC is overseeing a wide range of communities with an eye to inviting them to become an official Apache project, we should allow Members to formally join the IPMC to help oversee this process, since ...snip... > Then they can ask the IPMC to join to IPMC by sending an email to private@ > listing what they have been involved in. The IPMC would VOTE on them, and > there’s a chance they could be rejected, but given it’s a private vote I > don’t think any harm is done if that happens. Also people could nominate > other people who fit into this above group. +1, having a clear criteria as you list (to ensure it's people who really have productively helped, and not just people status-seeking) and an explicit call to "this is how you can *ask* to get voted into the IPMC" is a great idea. I agree, we definitely need a larger pool of mentors for podlings, and helping committed non-Members be able to do this is a great thing. -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
