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Tom
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stack <stack@duboce.net> wrote:
> Please vote as to whether you think HBase should become a top-level
> Apache project.
>
> I've included below a draft board resolution. It lists all current
> active HBase committers as initial members of the project management
> committee (PMC) and myself, Michael Stack, as the initial chair.
>
> Do the good people of Hadoop support sending this request on to the Hadoop PMC?
>
> Yours,
> St.Ack
>
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>
> X. Establish the Apache HBase Project
>
> WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
> interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
> Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
> Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
> open-source software related to data serialization
> for distribution at no charge to the public.
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
> Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache HBase Project",
> be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
> Foundation; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby is
> responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
> related to a distributed database; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HBase" be
> and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
> serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
> of the Apache HBase Project, and to have primary responsibility
> for management of the projects within the scope of
> responsibility of the Apache HBase Project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
> hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
> Apache HBase Project:
>
> * Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>
> * Jonathan Gray <jgray@apache.org>
> * Andrew Purtell <apurtell@apache.org>
> * John-Daniel Cryans <jdcryans@apache.org>
> * Ryan Rawson <rawson@apache.org>
> * Lars George <larsgeorge@apache.org>
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Stack
> be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, to
> serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
> Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
> death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
> or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the initial Apache HBase PMC be and hereby is
> tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
> encourage open development and increased participation in the
> Apache HBase Project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby
> is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
> Hadoop HBase sub-project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
> Hadoop HBase sub-project encumbered upon the
> Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.
>
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