There have been 10 positive binding votes and no negative votes. I have updated the Commons charter on the web site to reflect this change.
-- Martin Cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: [PROPOSAL] Update to Commons package approval guideline > The current Commons guidelines require a positive super-majority vote of > active subproject committers before a new package is accepted into Commons. > Given the number of committers in Commons today, I believe that this is no > longer tenable. > > Therefore I propose that we update item #17 of the guidelines to require > majority approval, as defined in the Jakarta guidelines, before a package is > accepted into Commons. The replacement text for item #17 would be as > follows: > > ----- > 17. New packages may be proposed to the Jakarta Commons mailing list. To be > accepted, a package proposal must receive majority approval of the > subproject committers. Proposals are to identify the rationale for the > package, its scope, its interaction with other packages and products, the > Commons resources, if any, to be created, the initial source from which the > package is to be created, and the initial set of committers. > 1. As stated in the Jakarta guidelines, an action requiring majority > approval must receive at least 3 binding +1 votes and more +1 votes than -1 > votes. > ----- > > +1 from me. :-) > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
