The Apache way is to reach consensus without voting whenever possible. Julian
On Sep 29, 2018, at 12:32 AM, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In Apache votes are a formality, after consensus has been reached, so > consensus is more important than votes > > The very first line of https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html reads > > Apache/voting> Because one of the fundamental aspects of accomplishing > things within the Apache framework is doing so by *consensus*, there > obviously needs to be a way to tell *whether it has been reached*. *This is > done by voting*. > > Vladimir