Agreed. though that page probably needs a bit of a reality check.. The problem is when someone does a -1 with reasoning, people tend to stop voting until that vote is switched to a +1 and if that vote is switched to a +1 and there are enough votes, people that stopped voting will keep silent.
Hope I make sense :) Mvgr, Martin Will Glass-Husain wrote: > Martin, > > Actually, that's not true. Releases cannot be vetoed by a -1. See > http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > If there's a majority approval and at least 3 +1 PMC votes, than it's up to > the release manager to decide whether or not to release. He can decide to > table the vote based on feedback, if so desired. (We had this issue in the > release of Velocity 1.5). > > WILL > > > > On 6/3/07, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rony is a PMC member.. However the -1 of Sebb (which is binding and > blocking) is still there (unless >> I missed his +1).. >> Added Rony to the jakarta-pmc authorization file (thanx for spotting > this).. >> >> Mvgr, >> Martin >> >> Thomas Vandahl wrote: >> > Hi Roland, >> > >> > Roland Weber wrote: >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> >> >>> I could not find any information about whether Rony Flatscher is a >> >>> member of the PMC >> >> In the committers-only SVN module is a file board/committee-info.txt >> >> which lists the PMCs of all Apache projects. It's (supposed to be ;-) >> >> the authoritative source. Rony Flatscher is listed there as PMC >> member. >> > >> > I came across some commit message regarding asf-authorization which >> > contained a list of members of the jakarta-pmc group and he was not >> > listed there. So I was unsure. >> > >> >> I'm not sure myself how Sebastian's -1 will be weighed here. I would >> >> have expected that the NOTICE and LICENSE files get fixed and he >> >> changes his vote. As by his last mail on the topic, the content in >> >> SVN did not get fixed. If you changed the release files manually, you >> >> should commit those changes to SVN and give Sebastian some time to >> >> change his vote. >> > >> > We were voting on the artifacts on people.apache.org/~tv/jcs/, not on >> > SVN. This is at least what I understood the release-then-vote-policy >> > means. I have committed the latest changes and moved the tag, however. >> > >> > If Rony is a PMC member we have a result of 3 +1 votes, which should be >> > sufficient. However its up to the PMC to decide this. >> > >> > Bye, Thomas. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
