Dave Newton wrote:
--- "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ted Husted wrote:
Since everyone here is a volunteer, there's no way to enforce an
obligation, and the ASF guidelines remind us of this. A vote is an
opinion, not a commitment.
Didn't you effectively say the opposite just yesterday? :
"It's true that we're volunteers, and any of us can walk away whenever
we like, but it's also true that when we vote +1 on a GA, each voter
is saying that he or she intends to help support the release. If the
release includes a J4 distribution, it means that we are each saying
that we will make a good-faith effort to support that distribution
too."
It doesn't sound like the opposite. "Intention" is not "obligation", and a
"good-faith effort" is just that--an expressed intent made in good faith to
support the distro.
IMO "obligation" means that regardless of other circumstances that support
*must* be provided.
That's my point though: obligation probably isn't the right word under
any circumstances. The best you can hope for, ask for or expect, is a
good-faith statement of intent. If everyone here is saying that a +1
implies such a good-faith intention to support, then there's no problem,
everything is right with the world There seems to be some question
about that implied meaning though, which is where this discussion began
as I recall.
d.
Frank
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