According to our charter, we need a 75% 'super-majority' of committers to
approve a proposal:
"7. New packages may be proposed to the Jakarta Commons mailing list. To be
accepted, a package proposal must receive a positive super-majority vote of
the subproject committers.
[...]
1. The whole number of positive votes needed for a super majority is
calculated by dividing the total number of active subproject committers by
four, multiplying by three, and rounding to the nearest whole number (>= .5
rounds up)."
Given the 10 initial committers listed in the proposal, we need 8 positive
votes to approve a proposal. Looking over the mail archives, I don't think
any proposal has reached that yet. (I've only counted explicit +1's. There
are several comments of support that could be counted as implied +1, but I
didn't count those.)
I'm as bad as anyone, I didn't vote on BeanUtils (I will now, +1 for
BeanUtils), but according to our charter, we haven't accepted any proposals.
Here's the tally as far as I gather (in chronological order). If you
haven't voted, please do.
PS: Do we want to re-consider the 75% rule? What happens when we get dozens
of committers? I don't think that's unreasonable given our charter, but
leads to a lot of votes needed to do anything. Like a lot of people, I'm
loathe to vote on something I haven't look at closely, but I don't have time
to look at *everything* closely. What happened to "minimum threshold
democracy"?
BeanUtils
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Craig
Geir
Remy
Costin
David [+0.5, that counts the same as a full +1, right?]
Rodney [as of this message]
Morgan [He voted as I was writing this]
Cactus (J2EEUnit)
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[Vincent]?
Craig
Geir
Rodney
Collections
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Rodney
Pool
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Rodney
Costin
Morgan
DBCP
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Rodney
