At 18:02 05.01.2002 -0500, you wrote: >Ceki Gülcü wrote: >> >> IMHO, XML does not and will never have a community as long as two of >> its most important projects directly compete with each other. The >> success of one is related with the failure of the other. XML >> Community? Won't happen in a million years. How the did Crimson >> become an Apache project anyway? > >Look closely, Xerces 2 is the designated successor to *both* Xerces 1 and >Crimson. The developers *are* working together. I won't pretend that >everything is 100% smooth sailing, but significant progress is being made.
Point well taken. >> The required majority for the adoption of proposals can be simple or >> qualified. Even if the qualified majority is 3/4, this would be better >> than the veto system we have today. Although a veto can be overridden >> by a 3/4 majority, as far as I know, this has never happened in the >> past. Today someone voting -1 means end of discussion. >> >> I dare anyone to -1 that. Regards, Ceki > >The rules you describe don't look familiar to me. The ones I am familiar >with are: > >http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html >http://jakarta.apache.org/site/management.html My mistake. I was always under the impression that new project creation required a 3/4 vote *and* no binding vetoes (which I admit makes no sense). Thanks for the clarification. Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
