Take a look at this: http://www.codeconsult.ch/bertrand/archives/000759.html
The short answer is the vote is held publicly but only certain people on the "Project Management Committee" vote. plb -----Original Message----- From: Saurabh Dani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:57 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 Why should I have the right to vote on this? It does not make sense that I can vote just because I am signed up on the mailing list. Shouldn't this be a vote from contributors only? ---------------------------------------- From: "George Aroush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: [VOTE] Release of Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:05:51 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi folks, To follow the proper release process of ASF, please take a moment to cast your vote to release Lucene.Net 2.0.0. I have placed both the release candidate of source code and binary here: http://people.apache.org/~aroush/ The change history for this release can be found here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene.net/trunk/C%23/src/HIS TORY .txt In addition to Lucene.Net release, this release also contains ported code in "contrib". Please cast your vote on releasing Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 no later then this coming Saturday. [ ] +1 Approve release [ ] -1 Veto release (please give reason) Regards, -- George Aroush
