Most votes are procedural.

There are a couple specific veto votes:

1. You can veto a new committer or PMC member if you are on the PMC.

2. You can veto a specific code commit with a valid technical reason. This 
cannot be arbitrary or capricious - it has to be a specific technical reason 
and if that is addressed, things move on. This kind of veto has to be explicit, 
not just a standard “-1, im against this”.

Larger issues - which java versions do we support, what back compat policies, 
git or svn - these are majority votes.

Votes are a failure in a consensus community in general though. It’s best to 
have a discussion thread and a vote thread becomes a last resort when there is 
no way consensus will be reached.

- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

> On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Ryan,
> I’m unclear on what makes a “procedural vote” as such.  This seems to me to 
> be about code modifications — in a big way as it’s a large change to the 
> codebase.
> 
> ~ David 


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