On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Animesh Chaturvedi > <animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Folks >> >> Frank has posted CS - 774 code for IP Clearance review at >> http://people.apache.org/~frankzhang/ . Citrix would like to donate this >> code to Apache CloudStack. >> >> Dave, Chip can you outline the formal process for IP clearance? Do we call >> out for VOTE on its inclusion right away or wait for 72 hours? >> >> >> Thanks >> Animesh >> >> > > IMO, I believe that we should be OK to start a VOTE right away for any > of these features where there was a dev list discussion that reached > consensus (i.e.: no outstanding issues / questions). If there was not > consensus, then I think it's only fair to use DISCUSS threads to ask > for consensus before moving forward with a VOTE. > > After discussion, I suggest that we hold a VOTE as a community > (similar to the one I just did for the test suite), as a pre-cursor to > finding an officer or member to help get us through the IP clearance > process. For the record, the process from after we do our VOTE is > documented here: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html > and http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.html
I concur, this makes sense.