On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we’re wrong on the second point, then I think the entire discussion of
> carrying votes became moot, and we’ve spent an awful lot of time and energy
> on a non-issue.
>
> We can simply state that to vote on a new RC one either needs to recheck
> all artifacts of the RC or be confident that their original vote still
> applies. (Probably with some guidelines that doing so should be done with
> caution and generally only when non-code files have been changed.)
>

I agree.  I think our current guidelines[1] can be modified from:

When voting on release candidates the release manager at their discretion
> can carry over votes from the previous release candidate if there are *minimal
> *changes between release candidates.


to:

When voting on release candidates the release manager at their discretion
> can carry over votes from the previous release candidate if there are 
> *non-code
> related* changes between release candidates.



Thanks,
Om

 [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Guidelines

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