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.
Sent from my iPhone > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org