On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Thanks for the input.  What is the "release candidate vote issue"?
> 
> An RC was voted in as released but not released.
> 
> IMO we had more RC than we should due to lack of committer involvement (and 
> the release manager job harder). With the number of committers we have in the 
> project  a release (the first in 6 months) should be able to attract more 
> than 3 or 4 +1 votes. I think that's a concern that needs to be noted in the 
> report.

This is likely to reflect that voting properly takes work and once a sufficient 
number of committers have done so the others do not need to do so.

For example, in Apache POI we usually stop at 3 +1 votes. It takes awhile to 
test and we are all busy.

Regards,
Dave

> 
> Justin

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