I support to have thoughtful discussion regarding River future direction
proposed by Patricia.
Bishnu Prasad Gautam
> Subject: Re: VOTE: Take Security seriously or my resignation.
> To: dev@river.apache.org
> From: p...@acm.org
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:13:23 -0800
>
> Please, please cancel this.
>
> We do need to have a serious discussion of River future direction. I
> expect that discussion to take a lot longer than a week, and hope it
> will involve as many users and potential users of River as possible. For
> example, we may need to canvas other project mailing lists to find out
> whether a River with specific changes would be useful to them.
>
> It will certainly take me more than a week to study the subject, and the
> various opinions about it, sufficiently to be prepared to vote.
>
> I feel, very strongly, that we need to get River 3.0 out the door ASAP.
> Even with enough time for proper study, holding the River future
> discussion first will inevitably distract from that objective and delay
> the release. I thought that was also the PMC consensus.
>
> My preferred plan is get existing changes out as River 3.0 first, then
> discussion and study, then vote on future direction. I am sorely tempted
> to resign if this premature vote goes ahead, regardless of the outcome,
> but will not because I don't think such threats are an appropriate way
> of influencing PMC votes.
>
> Patricia
>
> On 1/6/2016 4:21 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> > Option 1. I propose that we take security seriously, no security patches
> > are to be rejected prior to review, that we review and analyse them
> > properly based on merit. That discussions about security issues be taken
> > seriously.
> >
> > Option 2. Alternatively I resign my River committer status
> >
> > Please cast your vote, the vote is open for 7 days.
> >
> > Let the community decide.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > Sent from my Samsung device.
> >
> >
