Hi! After an enthusiastic discussion with the community[1], finally positive vote result[2].
We'd like to bring this to a discussing at the IPMC. Please see the proposed resolution below and let us know what do you think. A few status to help with the discussion: - There are 1301 emails sent by 159 people in dev mailing-list excepted GitBox forwarded; - 2539 Issues created during ASF incubating, 2468 Issues resolved during ASF incubating; - 1073 PRs created during ASF incubating, 918 PRs merged during ASF incubating; - There are 89 contributors for now; - There are 4 versions released successfully conformant to Apache release policy by 3 release managers; - There are 2 new PPMCs and 8 new committers were invited to join the community. We had already finished the Podling Maturity Assessment for ShardingSphere[3], the 34 items are all passed. We had resolved all branding issues which include Logo, GitHub repo, document, website and DockerHub image. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6a2cec7143395ac0126dcb13f331fbc87b680eaca015d50d7793172%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc46c2869cd87f4d92c1322f0e008fc294980e1470443265d98529e66%40%3Cdev.shardingsphere.apache.org%3E [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-shardingsphere/blob/dev/MATURITY.md ------------------------------------ Establish the Apache ShardingSphere 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, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to Apache ShardingSphere is an ecosystem consisted of a set of distributed database middleware solutions, including 2 independent products, Sharding-JDBC, Sharding-Proxy. They all provide functions of data sharding, distributed transaction, database and data governance, applicable in a variety of situations such as Java isomorphism and heterogeneous language.. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache ShardingSphere Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ShardingSphere Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache ShardingSphere is an ecosystem consisted of a set of distributed database middleware solutions, including 2 independent products, Sharding-JDBC, Sharding-Proxy. They all provide functions of data sharding, distributed transaction, database and data governance, applicable in a variety of situations such as Java isomorphism and heterogeneous language.; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ShardingSphere" 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 ShardingSphere Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache ShardingSphere 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 ShardingSphere Project: * Craig L Russell <c...@apache.org> * Hao Cao <cao...@apache.org> * Hongjun Du <codefa...@apache.org> * Hongtao Gao <hanahm...@apache.org> * Juan Pan <panj...@apache.org> * Jun Zhao <zhao...@apache.org> * Liang Zhang <zhangli...@apache.org> * QingYang Chen <chenqingy...@apache.org> * Sheng Wu <wush...@apache.org> * Von Gosling <vongosl...@apache.org> * Willem Ning Jiang <ningji...@apache.org> * Xiaoguang Ma <maxiaogu...@apache.org> * Yang Yi <yan...@apache.org> * Yonglun Zhang <zhangyong...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Liang Zhang be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ShardingSphere, 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 ShardingSphere Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator ShardingSphere podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator ShardingSphere podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. ------------------ Liang Zhang (John) Apache ShardingSphere & Dubbo