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