On 29.08.2005 18:08:59 Christian Geisert wrote: > Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > > [..] > > > I was approached off-line and made aware of a mistake I made with this > > statement. I'd like to correct myself: > > > > I fully agree that prior to a committer vote a discussion should be held > > inside the PMC to avoid any very negative effects of a premature vote. > > However, the person who wrote to me quite correctly pointed out that the > > committers of a subproject who are not on the PMC would effectively > > lose their voting rights in this area, were the committer vote to be > > held in the PMC. > > And I thought committers are voted by the PMC. Oh well ...
No, not according to our project charter. See section 8.2: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/charter.html I was quite careless in my initial reply. > [..] > > > So what does this mean for the topic at hand? I think it means that we > > should still consider holding the committer votes on the public dev list > > but only after the PMC has decided that it's good idea to hold the vote. > > Any justified -1 on such a vote by a non-PMC-member will not be > > overruled as they probably have valid concerns. But in the favor of the > > project and especially of the person who is voted on such vetoes should > > be confided to the private PMC list before bringing them to the public. > > But it would still cause a public veto (or would the vote be cancelled?) I can happen if the whole of the PMC overlooked something. Otherwise, this really shouldn't happen if a committer who is not on the PMC and has problems with the nomination comes to the PMC first (via the PMC list). Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
