+1 (binding)!
> On Sep 10, 2018, at 11:48 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> The Apache Pulsar project is ready to graduate as a TLP. They entered
> Incubation on June 1, 2017, have had many releases and have grown the
> community.
>
> At the mentors request they did a maturity model analysis [1] and wrote
> contribution guidelines. [2]
>
> The Graduation Proposal was written and discussed on the dev list. [3] At the
> mentor's recommendation the By-Laws Clause was removed.
>
> The new prospective PMC is set and the VOTE thread in the podling is here [4]
> with these results. [5]
>
> Let’s see if there is any discussion here on general@incubator before moving
> onto a VOTE.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/wiki/Apache-Maturity-Model-Assessment-for-Pulsar
>
> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/wiki/Apache-Maturity-Model-Assessment-for-Pulsar>
> [2] http://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/en/contributing/
> <http://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/en/contributing/>
> [3]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0914461f57253237e4a3c9151342f6d4fa37359dfc98a07adf9f36f@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E
>
> <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0914461f57253237e4a3c9151342f6d4fa37359dfc98a07adf9f36f@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E>
> [4]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/93198abe36564a9e11a2a1bfe3ea8f35998444dbafea830f8b39df7b@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E
>
> <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/93198abe36564a9e11a2a1bfe3ea8f35998444dbafea830f8b39df7b@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E>
> [5]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/64841a07ba3dee2271f4098f9142afd41acffae1736275592aab4c83@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E
>
> <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/64841a07ba3dee2271f4098f9142afd41acffae1736275592aab4c83@%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E>
>
>
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>
> Establish the Apache Pulsar 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, for distribution at no charge to the public,
> related to a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on
> commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub and queue semantics over
> topics, lightweight compute framework, automatic cursor management for
> subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
> (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Pulsar Project", be and hereby is
> established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache Pulsar Project be and hereby is responsible
> for the creation and maintenance of software related to a highly
> scalable, low latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware.
> It provides simple pub-sub and queue semantics over topics, lightweight
> compute framework, automatic cursor management for subscribers, and
> cross-datacenter replication; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Pulsar" 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 Pulsar
> Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
> projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Pulsar
> 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 Pulsar Project:
>
> * Boyang Jerry Peng <jerryp...@apache.org <mailto:jerryp...@apache.org>>
> * Brad McMillen <bra...@apache.org <mailto:bra...@apache.org>>
> * David Fisher <w...@apache.org <mailto:w...@apache.org>>
> * Francis Christopher Liu <tof...@apache.org <mailto:tof...@apache.org>>
> * Hiroyuki Sakai <hrsa...@apache.org <mailto:hrsa...@apache.org>>
> * Ivan Brendan Kelly <iv...@apache.org <mailto:iv...@apache.org>>
> * Jai Asher <j...@apache.org <mailto:j...@apache.org>>
> * Jia Zhai <zhai...@apache.org <mailto:zhai...@apache.org>>
> * Jim Jagielski <j...@apache.org <mailto:j...@apache.org>>
> * Joe Francis <j...@apache.org <mailto:j...@apache.org>>
> * Ludwig Pummer <ludw...@apache.org <mailto:ludw...@apache.org>>
> * Masahiro Sakamoto <massa...@apache.org <mailto:massa...@apache.org>>
> * Masakazu Kitajo <mas...@apache.org <mailto:mas...@apache.org>>
> * Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org <mailto:mme...@apache.org>>
> * Nozomi Kurihara <nkuri...@apache.org <mailto:nkuri...@apache.org>>
> * P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@apache.org <mailto:ptgo...@apache.org>>
> * Rajan Dhabalia <rdhaba...@apache.org <mailto:rdhaba...@apache.org>>
> * Sahaya Andrews <andr...@apache.org <mailto:andr...@apache.org>>
> * Sanjeev Kulkarni <sanjee...@apache.org <mailto:sanjee...@apache.org>>
> * Sebastián Schepens <sschep...@apache.org <mailto:sschep...@apache.org>>
> * Siddharth Boobna <sboo...@apache.org <mailto:sboo...@apache.org>>
> * Sijie Guo <si...@apache.org <mailto:si...@apache.org>>
> * Yuki Shiga <yush...@apache.org <mailto:yush...@apache.org>>
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matteo Merli be appointed
> to the office of Vice President, Apache Pulsar, 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 Apache Pulsar Project be and hereby is tasked with
> the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Pulsar
> podling; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
> Pulsar podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter
> discharged.
>
