Hello Marvin, Thanks and welcome!
Looking forward to tomorrow, Till > On Nov 8, 2013, at 23:15, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, VXQuery community, > > There's been a long thread on general@incubator which has led up to the > message below in which I volunteer to be a VXQuery Mentor and to review your > release candidate tomorrow. > > http://markmail.org/message/gtrdyivoyr55vzom > > Cheers, > > Marvin Humphrey > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:55 PM > Subject: Re: Cultivating Outstanding IP Stewards > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Ross Gardler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 7 November 2013 22:22, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 1. Start with a Board resolution establishing a pTLP PMC seeded with IPMC >>> members. >>> 2. Vote podling contributors onto the PMC as they demonstrate merit. >>> 3. When there are enough PMC members, consider graduation. >> >> +1 this is essentially what I proposed for the pTLP experiment with >> Stratos. I wrote the proposal up in outline on the Stratos dev list a few >> days after the podling got started. Unfortunately the mentors who signed up >> to oversee that experiment never found the time to do so. >> >> I still think this is an approach worth exploring more fully and will be >> happy to sig out that email for you if it would help. > > Here a link to your writeup: > > http://s.apache.org/6Ph > > Since we now know that the Board prefers we run any pTLP experiments in the > context of the Incubator, that settles some of the unresolved issues you > identified -- at least for the time being. > >> In summary I am +1 on you picking any of these and implementing them. All >> are reversible steps. Good luck. > > OK, I've thought things over. Here's what I'd like to do: > > First, I'd like to volunteer as a Mentor for VXQuery. It seems that the > community is receptive to the the idea of of trying out a pTLP model, though > my offer is not conditional upon that. I'll review their release candidate > tomorrow. > > VXQuery is not a new podling, but I think it's a good candidate for a pilot > pTLP (under the aegis of the Incubator). There are some community development > conversations which I think it would be fruitful to have, and I believe that > the process of assembling a pTLP PMC would provide an excellent framework for > those conversations. > > Should that experiment run as expected, we will break the ice with pTLPs and > get some data. And since VXQuery is has completed many incubation tasks > already, things may happen quickly. > > Second, I intend to start nominating more outstanding podling contributors > for IPMC membership, for reasons best articulated by David Nalley. I hope > that other IPMC members will do the same. > > Lastly, with regards to "Podling Chairs", I'd like us to continue that > conversation, either now or later. It occurs to me that pTLPs should probably > have Chairs -- so perhaps we will find that the proposals complement > each other. > > Marvin Humphrey
