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Committer nomination process

Chair of PMC

The chair of the PMC is rotated annually. When the chair is rotated or if the current chair of the PMC resigns, the PMC votes to recommend a new chair using Single Transferable Vote (STV) voting. See http://wiki.apache.org/general/BoardVoting for specifics. The decision must be ratified by the Apache board.

The Responsibility of Chair

• Subscribe board@ mailing lists
• Monitor community
• Pass board info back to PMC

• Quarterly report[2]

• Project management

  • Committer accounts[3][4][5]

• Add new PMC members.
  • 72 hours notice to the board
  • Update committee-info.txt
• Change of PMC Chair.

• Change VP/chair name at the foundation website. See also [7].

• Oversight of the PMC.

• Create and add the project doap file to [8]. See also [9].
  

PMC

• Add doap file into the project svn. The doap file can be created through Create an ASF DOAP File
  

References

1. Infrastructure PMC documentation .
   2. Board Reporting Guidelines for Project Chairs
   3. Grant Karma
   4. New Committer Process
   5. HOW TO INVITE NEW PROJECT COMMITTERS
   6. Project Management Committee Guide
   7. Updating the Infrastructure web site
   8. files.xml
   9. Create an ASF DOAP File