There is a good description of "Lazy Consensus" on the Apache community web site [1]
But even if you understand that page, you might have questions about how to actually do it. It is not very difficult. I've written up a short example template of what it looks like. The use of this template is not required. You can express the same things in your own words, as you wish. But it is good form to ensure that your proposal includes: 1) A [PROPOSAL] tag in the subject line of a new thread, so list readers know to pay special attention to your thread. You should not bury a proposal 15 posts down in an existing thread. 2) A description of what *you* are proposing to do. A proposal for what other people should do is just a wish. 3) A statement that you will invoke Lazy Consensus if no objections are expressed within some time period, at least 72-hours. A longer time period might be appropriate for proposals made near major holidays, for example. [1]: http://community.apache.org/committers/lazyConsensus.html ======================== Subject: [PROPOSAL] Optimized sleep() statements I propose to rewrite all sleep() statements in AOOo to improve performance, adding my special sauce and kung-fu taught to me on the streets of Boston by Sister Mary Elizabeth, and optimize the hell out of it with a recursive C++ function template I saw in Dr. Dobbs in 1993, and then to commit it to the trunk. If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72-hours then I will invoke Lazy Consensus and proceed to implement the above proposal. ========================
