Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-24 Thread Carin Meier
I should clarify - parts were removed and parts were added :) I'm not sure if this is exactly that Tianqi had in mind or not. But the document is open to feedback. These threads are getting a bit confused. So if you are going to discuss the document - please prefer the [DISCUSS] - Revisions to

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-24 Thread Carin Meier
I think it was removed from the document by Steffen from feedback https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4ed84034f9cac4cacae865dd5b5699aa1f9d650c0feee37072df41fa@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E The diff is here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=95652053=4=3 On

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-24 Thread Jim Jagielski
Neither can I. > On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:19 AM, Naveen Swamy wrote: > > this suggestion looks like it is putting the onus on contributors to > collaborate with contributors outside their org to get nominated to be > committer or a PMC of this project. > Every organization has its own business

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Steffen I don't see that text in the proposal. I personally think the bar should be the same for everyone independent of their affiliation, as per Apache ways of working, and per ethical principles of equality and meritocracy, otherwise we open the door to discrimination. This old movie with

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
Hi Pedro: If any of the Amazonians have enough merit to get the committership. The PMCs outside Amazon should recognize and bring them to the committership -- This proposal is not about discriminating against anyone. Please do note that this community is bigger than Amazon itself -- there are

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
Hi Pedro: If any of the Amazonians have enough merit to get the committership. The PMCs outside Amazon should recognize and bring them to the committership -- This proposal is not about discriminating against anyone. Please do note that this community is bigger than Amazon itself -- there are

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Steffen Rochel
Tianqi and Pedro - I suggested the following in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Become+an+Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+Committer+and+PPMC+Member+Proposal : In general, a nominee for PPMC will be evaluated based on the merit and contribution, independent of his affiliation.

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Tianqi, there's a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I think most of us here are enthusiastic about increasing diversity of contributions to this project and are working actively towards this. Having any kind of positive or negative discrimination seems to me like it

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-22 Thread Tianqi Chen
I want to clarify that this would not prevent Amazon contributors from being nominated. Nor it would prevent collaboration between Amazon employees. A good thing about Apache is that everything is recorded and presented to the entire community, this includes the dev list, github review/commit

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-22 Thread Tianqi Chen
I want to clarify that this would not prevent Amazon contributors from being nominated. Nor it would prevent collaboration between Amazon employees. A good thing about Apache is that everything is recorded and presented to the entire community, this includes the dev list, github review/commit

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-21 Thread Naveen Swamy
this suggestion looks like it is putting the onus on contributors to collaborate with contributors outside their org to get nominated to be committer or a PMC of this project. Every organization has its own business goals, on the way to meet their objectives if their employees happen to be great

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-21 Thread Tianqi Chen
> > Many potential committers and > PMC won’t interact with the non-Amazonians at all (since there are so few), > so they’d be relegated to obscurity and hopelessness by default. > If potential contributors do not comes from Amazon, then the Amazonian PMC can nominate them :) If the potential

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-21 Thread Steffen Rochel
Hi Tianqi - +1 . I like the idea to grow diversity at the project and encourage communication beyond people sitting next to each other. I also support the way you described as guideline, not has a hard rule. I think it is important we focus on merit and contributions when evaluating nominee for

[Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-21 Thread Tianqi Chen
Dear MXNet Community: There has been a great discussion going on in terms of PMC/Committer Criteria. As a community move forward, it is important to make the community inclusive to everyone and encourage folks to work together. I want to propose the following proposal courtesy: when a PMC