On Oct 16, 2013, at 2:46 PM, James Ring wrote: > Do Apache by-laws require a quorum? Was there a quorum for this vote? >
Apache voting rules are documented at http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html. However, that page doesn't define "consensus" which is where some of the disagreement came from. In short, a consensus vote requires at least 3 +1 votes and no -1 votes from PMC members. Quorum was not an issue (and rarely is with a PMC as large as Commons'). Ralph