On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> Is there such a concept as "Lazy Majority" ? > Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and > others ) as does Apache HTTP. [1] > "Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan."
The phrase is used, but it is not defined anywhere that I could find, so it is either a typo for something else or it is meaningless. In both cases the document needs to be tidied up and clarified. > Different projects however use different terms, as far as I can see "Lazy > Majority" is used more than " "Majority Approval" but both have the same > rules, ie 3 +1s and more +1's than -1's. > > My guess is that "Lazy Majority" is used because Majority implies more than > 50% of possible voters need to vote. My guess is that it is a misprint for Lazy Consensus. > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
