The solution is simple, bring more IPMC members in from the ManifoldCF podling. That is exactly what we did for Lucy!
>________________________________ > From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:33 PM >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, RC2 > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:11:49PM -0500, Karl Wright wrote: >> Waiting for the last IPMC vote has become the longest and most >> uncertain part of the ManifoldCF release process. Considering the >> amount of effort and good work that the committers put into each >> release, it's surely not too much to ask for someone here to have a >> look at it? (We apologize; we really hate to bother you all, but >> those ARE the rules...) > >(Apologies in advance that this isn't a VOTE email...) > >For what it's worth, I tried to review a release candidate for an earlier >ManifoldCF release, but I had to give up because I just didn't feel qualified >to evaluate the legal aspect given ManifoldCF's large number of dependencies >and my limited Java-fu. > >I find it very challenging to step in as a freelance IPMC member to cast a >release vote on a project I haven't been involved with. > >I definitely consider the difficulty in scraping up these votes to be a >significant weakness in how the Incubator operates right now, but I don't have >any ideas about how to improve the situation. :( > >Marvin Humphrey > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
