On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Ryan Blue <rb...@netflix.com.invalid> wrote: >> we don't have enough votes for a release > > I don't think that's true. You might not have gotten enough votes > within a few days. I too have had that problem for several releases. > But when that happened I would send personal messages to a few PMC > members asking them if they had time to please review a release. Some > PMC members get busy with other things and fall behind on Avro emails. > A few reminders never failed to rouse enough reviews & votes. >
In HBase we've largely switched away from release votes that have a fixed deadline due to the need to corral PMC votes. Instead, we now state the minimum voting period (almost always 72hrs per ASF policy) and set a courtesy notice of when the RM would like to close the vote. Then we just keep pinging private@ or individuals until we get enough votes for a result, or find something to start getting -1s. We could try something like that for a bit to see if "flog the bushes for PMC participation" is enough to keep us on a steady stream of releases. It would also probably help to make explicit to the community that showing up to test and vote on RCs is "acting like a PMC" in the eyes of some number of current PMC members (it is for me, for example). -- busbey
