On Feb 7, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Jim Gallacher wrote:
When the core group votes for a release candidate, is it a
consensus vote or a majority vote? To quote from the Apache voting
guidelines, "An action item requiring consensus approval must
receive at least 3 binding +1 votes and no vetos. An action item
requiring majority approval must receive at least 3 binding +1
votes and more +1 votes than -1 votes (i.e., a majority with a
minimum quorum of three positive votes)".
Release votes are majority votes. That prevents some forms of voting
abuse
and allows progress to be made even when it isn't perfect.
My interpretation of the rest of guideline is that a consensus vote
is only required for actual code changes. Perhaps we should set our
own policy for a vote on a release candidate?
See http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html.
If this is a majority vote, then the polls are closed and 3.2.7 is
the winner. :) (And I didn't even use a calulator this time. ;) )
We usually wait for 72 hours or until all the voters vote, since some
times it only takes one discovered failure to cause everyone else to
change their votes.
....Roy
