Hi Marvin,
Talking for myself, I would be very glad to have you be on the VXQuery
PMC. So +1 for that. I do like your idea of starting with a PMC that
consists of people who have experience with the ASF. What process do you
propose to select these individuals? What is the initial size of the PMC
that you think is reasonable? Would there be some way of making sure
that the initial PMC members actually participate in all required
processes such as voting, etc? The reason I ask this question is that,
the current problem we have with the IPMC is that of inaction. Its not
that the IPMC disagrees with what we are doing in the VXQuery project,
its just that nothing gets done because of meager participation in the
processes. Finally, from a functional standpoint, how is what you
propose different from just adding mentors to the VXQuery project
without making it a pTLP? If we had enough IPMC members as mentors who
were willing to vote on our concerns, we would not be in this situation
with the IPMC, correct?
Thanks,
Vinayak
On 11/5/13 7:11 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:29 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote:
I know the pTLP concept is not clearly defined yet, this VXQuery pTLP
trial could help flesh that definition out.
The way i thought this could work would be we submit a resolution for
the next board meeting, all the existing VXQuery committers become
part of the new PMC, I volunteer to be the chair, and the board
nominate one or more other board or ASF members to be on the PMC to
help provide some oversight.
I support the idea of VXQuery as pTLP, but not the proposed PMC
composition. I think we should seed the PMC with only ASF/IPMC
Members and that we should vote VXQuery contributors onto the
PMC individually. At some point, the pTLP PMC would reach
critical mass, allowing the quasi-mentors to recede and eventually,
remove themselves on graduation.
If VXQuery would accept me (which I do not assume, given the
"bad cop" role I have played in the past), I would volunteer to be
on the PMC.
Marvin Humphrey
