"a lot of the proposed PMCs” There are a lot of projects mentioned in this thread, and I think this is genuinely ambiguous. Do you mean PMCs or PMC members?
David Jencks > On Jul 30, 2024, at 8:47 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In general, projects joining the incubator need two things: > - A codebase > - a community around it > > While this isn't a hard requirement, building either while in incubation can > be difficult. > > The first issue I see is it’s not clear to me that there is a community here. > > The split between PPMC / committers is also unusual. > > It also seems there’s a disconnect between the people who have contributed to > the project and those on the initial PMC/committer list. I understand history > has been lost. Is there any reason why history wasn’t preserved? But given it > comes from a single vendor, I would assume that the commits in the new repo > would then give an accurate representation of who is involved from outside > that vendor since the plan/announcement to make it open source. However > looking at the commits, 80%+ of the people involved come from that single > vendor which and most of the proposed PPMC/committers have no activity in the > project. How have these people contributed? > > Looking closer, other than jbonofre or snazy, I can see these commits from > non-Snowflake people, and that is it. > anoopj - 1 commit (fixing a basic typo) > ajantha-bhat - 2 commits (minor doc changes) > > From the information provided, it seems that a lot of the proposed PMCs have > not been involved with the project at all. Mentors are there to help a > project, adding extra existing PMC members to the PPMC to just help out is > also rather unusual. So both the PPMC/committer split and the composition > seem problematic to me. > > Kind Regards, > Justin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
