Great, thanks a lot for the info John.  Since I have spoken to each of the
PMC members in question individually, I think we are safe to make our
changes and have them continue on as committers.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 16:27 John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:

> Its quite common that people stop working on open source projects.
> However, part of the Apache way is merit never expires.  While you may not
> want to include them in your PMC, keeping them available as a committer
> isn't a bad thing.
>
> Most podlings I've seen will send an email "here's the proposed PMC, speak
> up if you need a change."  If any of those people want to be on the PMC,
> still honor their request.  However if they are not interested then its
> safe to assume they would have responded.
>
> I do recommend if you are going to make changes, that the changes are
> finalized in the roster before submitting the resolution to the board.
> This may involve sending the IPMC notices for new PPMC members ahead of
> time, just to keep it clean.  Having your roster correct means everyone
> gets the right permissions without the chair having to do anything.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:14 PM Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > For Apache OpenWhisk we are in same situation so it would be good to
> > understand the guideline on how to handle such situation.
> >
> > - Carlos Santana
> > @csantanapr
> >
> > > On Mar 23, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Dave Neuman <neu...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey IPMC,
> > > I had a question about altering the PMC for graduation.
> > > We have a few folks who are no longer active participants in our
> project
> > > that are still a part of our PMC.  In the process of generating our
> > > graduation resolution we were wondering if we could take the
> opportunity
> > to
> > > have these members just be committers and not PMC members anymore?  If
> > yes,
> > > what would the process look like, would it be enough to just make the
> > > roster alterations in Whimsy?  I have already spoken to each of these
> > > people individually and made sure they were on-board with just being
> > > committers and not PMC members.
> > >
> > > We are really excited to draft our resolution and I think this is the
> > last
> > > thing standing in our way!
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for the help!
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
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