Hi David, I guess Justin meant "a lot of the proposed PPMC members".
Regards JB On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM David Jencks <david.a.jen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
