Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache Fluss (Incubating) as a Top Level Project

Hi,

Thanks for the detailed follow-up, and for restarting the discussion against the agreed criteria.

For most proposed members, the evidence clearly meets the test you adopted: commits, reviews, release management, compliance, and governance during incubation.

For at least one, possibly two, though, the cited contributions are pre-donation founding work. That work is real and valued, but under your own criteria, it is pre-donation history and promotion, not incubation-era contribution or governance.

As noted earlier, "merit never expires" applies to existing committers and PMC members; it isn't a basis for a seat on a new graduation PMC. Nor should a person's title or position in a company be a factor, which appears to be part of the rationale here.

Kind Regards,
Justin