Moving dev@ to BCC. I believe the following two major issues should be discussed and addressed in the original email thread with PMC.
1) Creating sub-committees composed of vendor representatives isn't violating the ASF policy. This PMC has expressed concerns when the original proposal was raised. Those concerns should be addressed first. 2) Mis-usage of "Apache Pulsar Community" without any PMC members involved. Chris, I think everyone in the PMC appreciates the meetup organizers for organizing meetups and encourages people to create Pulsar meetups without any constraints. Coordinating and organizing meetups doesn't require a committee to do so. - Sijie On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:09 PM Chris Latimer <ch...@chrislatimer.com> wrote: > > Hi Matteo, > > I'm sorry if my last message suggested that volunteering to take on an effort gives anyone the right to start acting on behalf of the PMC. That certainly wasn't my intent. The original message in this thread proposed a way to help people who want to organize meetups do so more successfully. I only meant to register my appreciation for the community members who are willing to volunteer their time and energy to help facilitate awareness and excitement about the technology and express how personally disappointed I would be to see the PMC take a position that prohibits this kind of community development activity. > > Thank you for taking my perspective into consideration. > > Sincerely, > > Chris Latimer > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:08 PM Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > I think it's entirely understandable for the PMC to say "we don't want to >> > be responsible for this", but it would be highly unfortunate for the PMC to >> > say "we don't want to be responsible for this AND no one from the community >> > is allowed to do this either", especially when there are people >> > volunteering to take on the effort. >> >> That was *absolutely not* what was answered. >> >> I re-quote my answer from before: >> >> ====== >> * Everyone is allowed (and encouraged!) to create and promote events >> around Apache Pulsar (following the ASF guidelines on trademarks) >> * Using "Apache Pulsar Community" as the organizer is a >> mischaracterization, since that effort is not coming from the Pulsar >> PMC >> * These events should be renamed to something that makes it >> absolutely clear this is not from Pulsar PMC >> ====== >> >> > is allowed to do this either", especially when there are people >> > volunteering to take on the effort. >> >> Volunteering to take on the effort doesn't give the right to start >> acting on behalf of the PMC.
