On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > On 7 November 2013 22:22, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org