(Sorry if the placement of this reply is wrong, but this thread is getting long and tarting to branch a bit...)
Maybe the question we should be asking is: Has the ignite podling demonstrated sufficient dedication to diversity that it can survive as a TLP, and not be overly influenced by a single corporate entity? If the answer is "yes," then I would vote +1. -Taylor > On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:21 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> The question of diversity in this case is not "are we enough >>> men/women/whatever", the question here is "is there a single corporate >>> entity with a deciding vote in the project?". >> >> Actually, I would hope that the criterion is whether there is a single >> corporate entity, the distraction of which would effectively kill the >> project. >> >> And we do need to look at Ambari as a precedent. Even now the PMC has 30 >> members from one company and 7 from other companies. No other company has >> more than two PMC members and all of the top 24 contributors are from the >> majority company. I would be very surprised if this project could survive >> a withdrawal of support from that one company. >> >> Yet we graduated Ambari without a peep. Not surprisingly, most of the >> votes were cast by employees of that one company. But nobody complained at >> all. >> >> So it behooves us as some critique Ignite for lack of diversity to ask >> whether precedent matters at all here. >> >> Does it? > > Speaking generally: > I don't think so. > No one noticed or complained is hardly reason to ignore problems, (if > it is indeed a problem) or to say that such decisions are now binding. > It might be a different matter if it was explicitly acknowledged. > > --David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
