Ross Gardler wrote: > > Since we have a number of new developers arriving perhaps those new to > the Apache Way would like to read: > > Consensus Gauging through Voting: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > Which states in the introduction: > > There are essentially three types of vote: > > 1. Code modifications, > 2. Package releases > 3. Procedural > > (note there is nothing there about decision making) > > You may also be interested in this blog post and those linked from it: > > http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/page/bayard/20050319#apache_meritocracy_consensus_and_despotism > > http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000172.html > > and > > http://www.jroller.com/page/rgardler/20050324#effective_decision_making_in_community > > (which all say much the same thing but all come from slightly different > angles) > > --- > > I wounder if we should put some/all of these links into one of our mail > templates for inviting/accepting a new committer?
It would be better to distill those comments into the top-level documents at www.apache.org/dev/ But yeah, linking to them is next best. I like yours the most. Someone should press-gang you into writing documents for Forrest. These are the other documents that we refer new developers to: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html http://www.apache.org/dev/ http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html --David
