Hi Doug, The apache voting process contradicts the Hadoop bylaws: http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html says that only PMC members can make binding votes on code modification issues, but http://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws.html says that Committers can make binding votes on them. Does that mean the Hadoop bylaws have to change?
Thanks, --Matt On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Matt Foley <mfo...@hortonworks.com> > wrote: > > It is intended to be a "technical discussion", in the sense of the bylaws > > statement (in section "Roles and Responsibilities: Committers"), > "Committers > > may cast binding votes on any technical discussion regarding any > > subproject." I therefore intended it to be a majority vote of > Committers. > > I'm not sure how you conclude that technical discussions are resolved > with majority votes. > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > > Interestingly, this need to discuss tooling and other issues that go > beyond > > a simple "code change" is not addressed in the "Decision Making: Actions" > > section of the bylaws. That need seems to have been overlooked in the > > current rev of that section. But I do not agree that such issues are > "code > > changes"; it relates to the tools we depend on to make code changes, > which > > is clearly qualitatively different. > > I don't see a striking difference between this and a proposed code > change. How is a -1 here fundamentally different than a veto on a > patch submitted to HADOOP-9082? > > Doug >
