Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-30 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The context for this is the discussion here - http://markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=overhead+list:org.apache.incubator.general This was a long discussion with no clear answers. We would like to know

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-30 Thread Leo Simons
Yupyup. I thought I'd add a little background rant here, that I wrote for the jena podling a bit ago. Purely optional reading but maybe illuminating for some. cheerio, - Leo On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Benson Margulies

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-30 Thread sebb
On 30 November 2011 14:11, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: Yupyup. I thought I'd add a little background rant here, that I wrote for the jena podling a bit ago. Purely optional reading but maybe illuminating for some. cheerio, - Leo On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Leo Simons

Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Neha Narkhede
Hi, The context for this is the discussion here - http://markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=overhead+list:org.apache.incubator.general This was a long discussion with no clear answers. We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The context for this is the discussion here - http://markmail.org/message/rsxjgrrufc6khlqy?q=overhead+list:org.apache.incubator.general This was a long discussion with no clear answers. We would like to know

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen a point to 2) to running serial votes. You need only 3

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:27 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 11/29/2011 4:00 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: We would like to know if it is OK to either - 1. shorten the release VOTE for change to one non-code file 2. run 72 hour vote in parallel on the dev list as well as on general@ I've never seen a

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread Neha Narkhede
So, you are saying option 2 is a reasonable choice, given that only the NOTICE/LICENSE files have changed one line here and there ? Thanks, Neha On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: On 11/29/2011 7:27 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 11/29/2011

Re: Voting time period can be shortened ? (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

2011-11-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 11/29/2011 7:50 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: So, you are saying option 2 is a reasonable choice, given that only the NOTICE/LICENSE files have changed one line here and there ? Yes, if you let the 72 hour vote run through with a clear message that it will be rerolled with a short vote. If