On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, sebb wrote:
> ...This is a bit of a mess
Yeah - I wish projects would just refer to
http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html and
http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html and avoid duplicating
that information.
-Bertrand
On 19 November 2013 08:29, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb wrote:
>> On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean wrote:
> ...
>>> My guess is that "Lazy Majority" is used because Majority implies more than
>>> 50% of possible voters need to vote.
>>
>> My guess is
well that type of "lazy majority" is really a "majority of binding votes
cast with a quorum" which differs from "majority of binding votes cast",
"majority of votes cast" and "quorum" (i.e. the needs 3x+1 to release...
because remember you cannot veto releases ;-) though only a fool of a
release ma
Hi David,
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Crossley wrote:
> Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> ..."lazy majority" is mentioned at
>> http://ant.apache.org/bylaws.html but I didn't know there was such a
>> concept in our projects.
>
> Many projects use it. See this Google search:
> site:apache.
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb wrote:
> > On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean wrote:
> ...
> >> My guess is that "Lazy Majority" is used because Majority implies more
> >> than 50% of possible voters need to vote.
> >
> > My guess is that it is a misprint
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb wrote:
> On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean wrote:
...
>> My guess is that "Lazy Majority" is used because Majority implies more than
>> 50% of possible voters need to vote.
>
> My guess is that it is a misprint for Lazy Consensus
I'd say so - "laz
On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Is there such a concept as "Lazy Majority" ?
> Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and
> others ) as does Apache HTTP. [1]
> "Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan."
The phrase is used, but
Well I can assure you it’s NOT compulsory at Apache ;-).
On Nov 10, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Every American that has voted for a public office
>> knows that winning the majority has nothing to do
>> with the total population of potential voters.
> Where I'm from voting
Hi,
> Every American that has voted for a public office
> knows that winning the majority has nothing to do
> with the total population of potential voters.
Where I'm from voting is compulsory so it has a different meaning.
Thanks,
Justin
-
Every American that has voted for a public office
knows that winning the majority has nothing to do
with the total population of potential voters. Let’s
not try to rationalize geekdom’s love affair with
special purpose terminology- my own pet peeve is
what the java world did to the word distributi
Hi,
> Is there such a concept as "Lazy Majority" ?
Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and others
) as does Apache HTTP. [1]
"Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan."
Different projects however use different terms, as far as I can see "Lazy
Major
On 9 November 2013 07:06, Alex Harui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but
> meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of
> bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference
> between "Majority Approval"
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013, at 07:06 AM, Alex Harui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but
> meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of
> bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference
> between "Majority
Hi,
Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but
meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of
bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference
between "Majority Approval" which is in the Glossary and "Lazy Majority"
which isn'
14 matches
Mail list logo
