This is a call for vote to graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator. Sqoop entered Incubator in June of 2011. Since then it has added three new committers from diverse organizations, added two new PPMC members, and made two releases following the ASF policies and guidelines. The community of Sqoop is active, healthy and growing and has demonstrated the ability to self-govern using accepted Apache practices. Sqoop community has voted to proceed with graduation [1] and the result can be found at [2].
Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator [ ] +0 Indifferent to the graduation status of Sqoop podling [ ] -1 Reject graduation of Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator This vote will be open for 72 hours. Please find the proposed board resolution below. [1] http://markmail.org/thread/xwhjtkik7pgrmypi [2] http://s.apache.org/sqoop Thanks, Arvind Prabhakar X. Establish the Apache Sqoop Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Sqoop Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Sqoop Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Sqoop" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Sqoop Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Sqoop Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Sqoop Project: * Aaron Kimball kimba...@apache.org * Andrew Bayer aba...@apache.org * Ahmed Radwan ah...@apache.org * Arvind Prabhakar arv...@apache.org * Bilung Lee b...@apache.org * Greg Cottman gcott...@apache.org * Guy le Mar guyle...@apache.org * Jaroslav Cecho jar...@apache.org * Jonathan Hsieh jmhs...@apache.org * Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org * Paul Zimdars pzimd...@apache.org * Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Arvind Prabhakar be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Sqoop, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Sqoop PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Sqoop Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Sqoop Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Sqoop podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Sqoop podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
