On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:27 -0600, Mark A. Carlson wrote: > a +1 is not a vote. It's original purpose was to indicate that > *in the absence of any visible review* - someone had reviewed > it and was OK with the case. Prior to this, cases were slipping > through approved without such an indication. > > Unless the case mail file is empty (save for the project proposal) > you don't need a +1 to close the case.
A +1 from an ARC member indicates explicitly that the member reviewed the case. It's not clear from the mailing list discussion that this actually happened (a non-empty mail file isn't necessarily an indication that a member reviewed the case.) That said, +1. -Seb