The downside to majority rule when it comes to personnel voting is that it can 
lead to a situation where a company having a majority on the pmc can increase 
their majority by voting in additional employees without the minority having 
any way to provide a check on that exercise of power.  Yes this has come up in 
the past.

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> On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> on https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html#new-committer-process it
> describes the process of bringing in a new committer for a "typical
> project".
> 
> But in the "Discussion" it speaks of "3 +1 and no vetoes"... Is it really
> "typical" that projects use vetoes for new committers? I can't recall
> seeing that anywhere, not saying it is incorrect, but asking whether it
> really is "typical".
> 
> Perhaps we should provide links to a handful of well-known project's
> processes, to both give a template for projects to work with as well as
> different approaches.
> 
> Anyone has any opinion on this matter?
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
> http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java


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