Not that it matters greatly, but maybe the term "Clearing" for this preparatory process is a good fit.
G On 14 Aug 2015 19:25, "Peter Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Aug 2015, at 1:11 am, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > With regard to what release votes are supposed to reflect, pre-voting > makes absolutely no sense to me. The ballots cast should follow a critical > review of the *specific* release candidate. > > > > I have said all I need to say about this. > > Maybe voting is not the best term to use for this period. The way I > understood it was a chance to hammer out last minute issues (like the line > ending problem I just mentioned) and once the all the issues I’ve found > have been sorted out, I give my +1. > > Keep in mind that release candidates differ slightly from other things we > normally vote on, because there’s sometimes obvious technical problems > (code not compiling, tests failing) that are not controversial, and are a > matter of fixing and issuing a new release candidate. > > If you have a suggestion for a less ambiguous term we could use so that > individuals can express the notion that all the problems they have > found/care about have now been fixed, I would be happy for us to change to > using that term instead. What is the typical practice on other ASF projects? > > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
