On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bill Havanki <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Going by the standards of a release vote, voting is actually the > appropriate time to discover fundamental issues. That's kind of the whole > point of voting -- getting people to agree that there are no fundamental > issues with what you're voting on. Finding valid, justifiable issues > should be welcome, as it results in a better product, whether the product > be a release or a community standard. > > > As an aside, this is not encouraged in our current release process. The test practices for a release take longer than the voting period for an RC. This directly implies that the fundamental issues must have been worked out prior to a call to vote. I've been fine with this interpretation, largely because it lines up with Apache guidelines around votes: do the consensus building work up front. If we're going to use a release vote as a time to do primary vetting, then we should probably change our RC vote window.
