For what it's worth, Arrow was created in Jan 2016 [1]. Here is the text of the Board resolution.
Julian [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2016/board_minutes_2016_01_20.txt --- 7. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Arrow 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 columnar in-memory processing and data interchange NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Arrow Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Arrow Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Arrow" 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 Arrow Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Arrow 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 Arrow Project: * Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> * Ted Dunning <tdunn...@apache.org> * Michael Stack <st...@apache.org> * P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@apache.org> * Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> * Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> * Julien Le Dem <jul...@apache.org> * Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> * James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> * Jake Luciani <j...@apache.org> * Parth Chandra <par...@apache.org> * Alex Levenson <alexleven...@apache.org> * Marcel Kornacker <mar...@apache.org> * Steven Phillips <s...@apache.org> * Hanifi Gunes <h...@apache.org> * Jason Altekruse <j...@apache.org> * Abdel Hakim Deneche <adene...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jacques Nadeau be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Arrow, 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. RESOLVED, that the Apache Arrow Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Drill Arrow sub-project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Drill Arrow sub-project encumbered upon the Apache Drill Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Arrow Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. On 2023/12/15 16:02:15 Andrew Lamb wrote: > Thank you Julian. This is very helpful. I will review the archives. > > Andrew > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:55 AM Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I believe the process is for the Board to create a new PMC whose IP and > > PMC members are an exact copy of the parent PMC. (Like the Unix “fork” > > function.) And then both PMCs delete the stuff, and PMC members, they no > > longer need. > > > > Arrow itself was created via this process (from Drill). You could search > > the archives for the board resolution that created Arrow. The Incubator is > > not involved in the process. (Except in some minor ways, such as a name > > search.) > > > > Julian > > > > > On Dec 15, 2023, at 7:09 AM, Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote: > > > > > > I apologize if this is not the right list on which to ask this question. > > > > > > Can someone point to information about the procedure to propose > > > “graduating” an *existing* sub project to a new top level project? > > > > > > Specifically, we are working on a proposal to graduate the “Apache Arrow > > > DataFusion”[1] sub project to its own Top Level Project. The DataFusion > > > project has sort of been “incubating” within the Arrow top level project > > > for several years and has grown to the point where it can both stand on > > its > > > own as well as benefit from more focused community[2]. > > > > > > I searched the archives of this list [3] and did not find anything that > > > seemed relevant. > > > > > > I did find, farther back in history, that the Mahout, Avro and HBase > > > projects appear to have previously “graduated” from sub projects of > > Hadoop > > > to their own top level projects but could not determine how they did so. > > > > > > Thank you for any guidance you may be able to provide, > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > [1] https://arrow.apache.org/datafusion/ > > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/discussions/6475 > > > > > > [3] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?general@incubator.apache.org > > > [4] > > > > > https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces4 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
