Obviously I'm a big +1 on that proposal since I have seen it work very well.
Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > Guys, > > I want to drop it on the list and see what are the thoughts the PMC. I think > it would be very beneficial for the members of this community if we institute > a policy to have regular rotations of the Chair. We do this in Bigtop and it > works real well for a couple of reasons: > - it provides an opportunity to anyone in the PMC to try this hat on and get > more involved in the inner-workings of the ASF and see how the board > operates > - it guarantees that once you're a chair you aren't stuck holding the bag > forever and can pass it on if your time allocation changes > - such a policy makes the PMC very transparent > > And of course it doesn't mean that a new person _has_ to be the chair each > cycle. The same chair should remain if no one is nominated or gets the > majority of the votes. > > At Bigtop we passed a resolution to oblige the active chair to start the > [DISCUSS] thread at the end of his annual tenure and ask for nominations. The > active chair remains and no [VOTE] is needed if no nominations are made. > Pretty lazy and simple. > > If people aren't familiar with what's the PMC Chair and why all that fuzz, > please read on > https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair > And I recommend everyone to take a look above PMC guide if you never seen it > before. > > Thoughts? > Cos
