Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 31.08.2005 11:59:13 Christian Geisert wrote: > Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > > That's one way to do it. We could simply ask the non-PMCers to contact > > the PMC if they object. > > Ok, just to be clear: the non-PMC committers will be asked before the > vote starts on fop-dev? We can decide ours

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-31 Thread Christian Geisert
Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > That's one way to do it. We could simply ask the non-PMCers to contact > the PMC if they object. Ok, just to be clear: the non-PMC committers will be asked before the vote starts on fop-dev? Christian

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
That's one way to do it. We could simply ask the non-PMCers to contact the PMC if they object. On 31.08.2005 10:48:01 Christian Geisert wrote: > Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > > On 29.08.2005 18:08:59 Christian Geisert wrote: > > [..] > > >>But it would still cause a public veto (or would the vote b

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-31 Thread Christian Geisert
Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > On 29.08.2005 18:08:59 Christian Geisert wrote: [..] >>But it would still cause a public veto (or would the vote be cancelled?) > > I can happen if the whole of the PMC overlooked something. Otherwise, > this really shouldn't happen if a committer who is not on the PMC

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-29 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 29.08.2005 18:08:59 Christian Geisert wrote: > Jeremias Maerki schrieb: > > [..] > > > I was approached off-line and made aware of a mistake I made with this > > statement. I'd like to correct myself: > > > > I fully agree that prior to a committer vote a discussion should be held > > inside

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-29 Thread Christian Geisert
Jeremias Maerki schrieb: [..] > I was approached off-line and made aware of a mistake I made with this > statement. I'd like to correct myself: > > I fully agree that prior to a committer vote a discussion should be held > inside the PMC to avoid any very negative effects of a premature vote. >

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 26 août 05, à 09:28, Jeremias Maerki a écrit : ...So what does this mean for the topic at hand? I think it means that we should still consider holding the committer votes on the public dev list but only after the PMC has decided that it's good idea to hold the vote... FWIW this is exactly

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 24.08.2005 08:22:09 Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > A discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] some weeks ago concerning the voting > > procedure for new committers [1],[2] led me to the conclusion that we > > should discuss and vote new committers on the pmc list. > > > > What do you think? > > I fully

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-24 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 24.08.2005 09:49:39 Chris Bowditch wrote: > > BTW, this leads me to another little detail I caught during ApacheCon > > when someone (I think it was Noel Bergman) said that only PMC members > > get binding votes on project decisions. That's because the PMC is > > responsible for the project and

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 24.08.2005 02:35:46 Christian Geisert wrote: Hi, In the past votes for new FOP committers happened on fop-dev and for Batik (I think) they were held in private. I think you meant "in public", right?. They were actually held in public with all the negative consequ

Re: Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 24.08.2005 02:35:46 Christian Geisert wrote: > Hi, > > In the past votes for new FOP committers happened on fop-dev and for > Batik (I think) they were held in private. I think you meant "in public", right?. They were actually held in public with all the negative consequences like -1s being

Mailing list for voting new committers

2005-08-23 Thread Christian Geisert
Hi, In the past votes for new FOP committers happened on fop-dev and for Batik (I think) they were held in private. A discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] some weeks ago concerning the voting procedure for new committers [1],[2] led me to the conclusion that we should discuss and vote new committ