PMC Election Process

Based on:  

• Adding a new PMC member  

Outline:  

• Call a vote
  • Only proceed if this passes
• Notify the board:
  • Send notify_pmc.txt
  • Wait 72 hours
• Invite the committer
  

  • Send invite_pmc.txt

  • Only proceed if they accept

•  Confirm election

  • Send done_pmc.txt

• Update project metadata

  • Edit committee-info.txt
    • Only use ASF email
    • Sort the entries
    • Don't use tabs
  • Ask the Chair to modify the committee info
    • modify_committee.pl couchdb --add ID
• Announce:

  • Send announce_pmc.txt

• Update JIRA groups

Promotion:  

• Tweet 
  • "Pleased to announce that %NAME% joins the CouchDB Project Management Committee!" 
• Google 
  • Post to CouchDB page and CouchDB community 
• Facebook 
  • Post to Facebook page  

Housekeeping:  

• Update JIRA groups 

  • https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/project-config/COUCHDB/roles 

• Set flags on #couchdb-private and #couchdb-security 
• Include in weekly news