On 12 September 2011 15:33, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:58 AM >> Subject: Re: Umbrella projects >> >> >> On 12 Sep 2011, at 14:12, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> It would be useful if you explained what you meant by "autonomy" >> so it >>> is clear about what you are talking about. >> >> "Autonomy" in the case of a localisation would mean being free to >> create releases without needing to translate decisions made by the developers >> (regardless of what's changed) into any other language. Obviously anything >> that moves upstream would need to be represented in English. > > Provided that there are sane versioning rules for the sources, I don't > see why a local language "preliminary release vote" needs to be held here. > OTOH I do know that the only votes that count are (P)PMC votes, so any source > release needs to follow all the normal rules of an ASF release, including > soliciting positive votes from the IPMC on general@incubator.
I agree with Joe with respect to releases that are built from *released* Apache code. However, I want to be clear. I am not talking about releases. I am talking about decisions that affect the project community as a whole. Ross
