Hi,


2014-06-14 0:17 GMT+02:00 Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]>:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>        RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
> >>>>        hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
> >>>>        Apache Celix Project:
> >>>>
> >>>>          * Alexander Broekhuis               <[email protected]>
> >>>>          * Pepijn Noltes                          <[email protected]
> >
> >>>>          * Bjoern Petri                            <[email protected]
> >
> >>>>          * Erik Jansman                         <[email protected]>
> >>>>
> >
> > Four is a very small number for a PMC.  I've commonly heard people argue
> that
> > five should be the cutoff.  If just two people move on, the project
> won't be
> > able to make releases.
>

We do know there aren't many committers/PMC members, but all documents
related to graduation mention 3 as the required amount. See [1] where it
says:

"The project is considered to have a diverse community when it is not
highly dependent on any single contributor (there are at least 3 legally
independent committers and there is no single company or entity that is
vital to the success of the project). Basically this means that when a
project mostly consists of contributors from one company, this is a sign of
not being diverse enough. You can mitigate this requirement by admitting
more external contributors to your project that have no tie to the single
entity."



> >
> > My personal feeling is that small PMCs are OK when at least one member
> has
> > been added during incubation (demonstrating openness) and when the
> project has
> > been around for years with stable core personnel who are unlikely to
> > disappear.  But four is still really low, and it wouldn't surprise me if
> > the Board objected.
>
> Personally, I don't feel this is a big deal. The PMC size is appropriate
> given the overall project size. That said, I'd like to make two points:
>    * in general, for a smaller project like Celix I'd like to encourage
> folks
>      to consider PMC == committers
>

+1, that is what we are doing right now, even though the other committers
are not on the PPMC, they will be on the PMC.


>    * if anybody actually had prior examples of board raising it as an
> issue,
>      I'd appreciate seeing pointers to the discussions
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
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[1]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community


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Met vriendelijke groet,

Alexander Broekhuis

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