That's for the correction Laszlo. I thought I'd seen that before but then again there's a lot of Apache documentation out there :)
Regards John On Wed 19 Dec 2018, 16:37 Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid wrote: > Sure, makes sense, thanks for the correction. > > Gj > > On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Laszlo Kishalmi < > laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm sorry for the correction, but: > > > > The only time when a PPMC member’s vote is binding is for the addition of > > new PPMC members and committers. Release votes are only binding to IPMC > > members. > > > > The binding status of a person’s vote is not related to the mailing list > > that the vote is occurring on. > > > > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#ppmc_and_binding_votes > > > > On 12/19/18 12:55 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> In the VOTE threads, you might wonder what ‘binding’ and ‘non binding’ > >> means. > >> > >> Binding means the voter has status in that part of the vote. In the PPMC > >> vote thread for Apache NetBeans 10, which is currently running, everyone > >> who is a PPMC member / committer (i.e., you were on the initial list or > >> voted in explicitly after that) has a binding vote (whether you label it > >> binding or not) > >> > >> So far, everyone who voted in the vc5 vote thread is a PPMC member / > >> committer and hence all current votes are binding for the PPMC vote > >> thread. > >> > >> When Laszlo puts the result thread together he’ll note all current votes > >> as > >> binding (more may still be added until the voting period is over, at > which > >> point there could be non binding votes too, i.e., anyone at all is able > to > >> vote) for the PPMC vote. > >> > >> If one of our mentors or another Apache member or IPMC member votes in > the > >> vc5 PPMC thread, then Laszlo will list those in the IPMC vote thread as > >> already having voted and their vote being binding in the IPMC vote > thread. > >> > >> IPMC governs the Incubator which we are part of and which we’ll work on > >> graduating from once we finally release Apache NetBeans 10. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Gj > >> > >> >
