Re: [DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-30 Thread Wes McKinney
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:24 AM Micah Kornfield wrote: > > > > > Re now vs Feb 17: I'm totally open to either. In general, I'm a do it now > > kind of person so if others think a slightly longer tenure sounds good, we > > could do it now. > > This makes sense to me as well, we can align on Feb 17

Re: [DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-29 Thread Micah Kornfield
> > Re now vs Feb 17: I'm totally open to either. In general, I'm a do it now > kind of person so if others think a slightly longer tenure sounds good, we > could do it now. This makes sense to me as well, we can align on Feb 17th the next time around. Per my comments elsewhere, I'd like to nomin

Re: [DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-29 Thread Jacques Nadeau
I'm super supportive of this, Julian. Thanks for bringing it up. Unlike some leaders, I'm even happy to guarantee a peaceful transition of power! Re now vs Feb 17: I'm totally open to either. In general, I'm a do it now kind of person so if others think a slightly longer tenure sounds good, we co

Re: [DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-29 Thread Julian Hyde
Feb 17 as a term end date sounds good. We don’t necessarily have to wait until Feb 17. If we want to move on this sooner, the next Chair could serve a slightly longer term, ending on Feb 17 2022. > On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Wes McKinney wrote: > > This sounds reasonable to me. We are appr

Re: [DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-29 Thread Wes McKinney
This sounds reasonable to me. We are approaching our 5 year anniversary as an Apache project (on February 17, 2021) and I have thought that it would make sense to rotate PMC chairs at some point, but making it an annual thing makes things even simpler. For what it's worth, in this project the PMC

[DISCUSS] Rotating the PMC Chair

2020-09-29 Thread Julian Hyde
There has been some discussion in the Arrow PMC about rotating the PMC Chair (also known as the project VP) every year. I wanted to raise the topic here for discussion among Arrow committers and within the broader Arrow community. Quite a few Apache projects have adopted a policy where they choose