You could also look into how Solr was spun out of Lucene. It would be up to your PMC whether to make the new PMC identical or not.
Doing a podling name search on DataFusion does check a box for the board. The best place to continue this discussion is bo...@apache.org Best, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 15, 2023, at 8:02 AM, Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote: > > Thank you Julian. This is very helpful. I will review the archives. > > Andrew > >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:55 AM Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I believe the process is for the Board to create a new PMC whose IP and >> PMC members are an exact copy of the parent PMC. (Like the Unix “fork” >> function.) And then both PMCs delete the stuff, and PMC members, they no >> longer need. >> >> Arrow itself was created via this process (from Drill). You could search >> the archives for the board resolution that created Arrow. The Incubator is >> not involved in the process. (Except in some minor ways, such as a name >> search.) >> >> Julian >> >>>> On Dec 15, 2023, at 7:09 AM, Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote: >>> >>> I apologize if this is not the right list on which to ask this question. >>> >>> Can someone point to information about the procedure to propose >>> “graduating” an *existing* sub project to a new top level project? >>> >>> Specifically, we are working on a proposal to graduate the “Apache Arrow >>> DataFusion”[1] sub project to its own Top Level Project. The DataFusion >>> project has sort of been “incubating” within the Arrow top level project >>> for several years and has grown to the point where it can both stand on >> its >>> own as well as benefit from more focused community[2]. >>> >>> I searched the archives of this list [3] and did not find anything that >>> seemed relevant. >>> >>> I did find, farther back in history, that the Mahout, Avro and HBase >>> projects appear to have previously “graduated” from sub projects of >> Hadoop >>> to their own top level projects but could not determine how they did so. >>> >>> Thank you for any guidance you may be able to provide, >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> [1] https://arrow.apache.org/datafusion/ >>> >>> [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/discussions/6475 >>> >>> [3] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?general@incubator.apache.org >>> [4] >>> >> https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces4 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >>
