You're right, of course. "Indemnification" is not the right term. And my point was not necessary, since you were not thinking of fewer votes, but relaxed requirements for the voters.
My apologies. ~Roger Whitcomb -----Original Message----- From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:48 AM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE][RRESULT][RC1] Release Commons Math 3.6.1 On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:51:21 +0000, Roger Whitcomb wrote: > I believe the necessity of having 3 PMC votes for a release is an > Apache-wide requirement, having to do with project oversight, and > legal indemnification. Indemnification??? With "8. Limitation of Liability"? > See http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html for the formal voting > rules for the ASF. > > I don't see anywhere in this page where there is any provision for > "relaxing" these requirements for any reason. I wrote "could", not "can". And I did not mean less than 3 votes; I meant less stringent requirements upon the voters (e.g. looking at the the "diff"). Gilles > ~Roger Whitcomb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 8:43 AM > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: Re: [VOTE][RRESULT][RC1] Release Commons Math 3.6.1 > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:29:48 -0400, Evan Ward wrote: >> On 03/21/2016 09:18 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >>> Le 21/03/2016 13:44, Evan Ward a écrit : >>>> The vote passes with three votes in favor and none against. >>> Well, in fact I am not sure it passes yet ... >>> >>> As far as I know, there are only 2 PMC members who voted: Oliver and >>> myself. >> >> Oh, I didn't realize there had to be 3 PMC members voting. I had >> already released the maven artifacts by the time I receive your >> message. I'll wait to publish the site until we have a vote from a >> third PMC member. >> Hopefully it is a +1 so I don't have to figure out how to un-release >> something. I'll update the release.howto.txt document to include a >> note that a vote must have 3 PMC +1's to pass. > > I'll vote > > +1 > > although I do not have the time to make all the "legal" steps. > It's a leap of faith because I trust that you (and Luc) take extreme > care in what you do. > > This kind of trust is sorely missing in other circumstances. > > Also, concretely, I think that the requirements could be relaxed for a > bug-fix release. > > Regards, > Gilles > >> Best Regards, >> Evan >> >>> >>> Could a third PMC member look at it? >>> >>> best regards, >>> Luc >>> >>>> Thanks for taking time to review. >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Evan >>>> >>>> On 03/19/2016 11:06 PM, Matt Sicker wrote: >>>>> If you add the -Xdoclint:none command line argument, that will >>>>> ignore the javadoc errors. I love how the JDK itself doesn't >>>>> compile without that option. >>>>> >>>>> On 19 March 2016 at 15:38, Oliver Heger >>>>> <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Build worked fine with Java 1.6 on Windows 10. Artifacts and site >>>>>> look good. I could not build the site with Java 8 because of >>>>>> Javadoc errors, but this is not blocking. >>>>>> >>>>>> So +1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Oliver >>>>>> >>>>>> Am 17.03.2016 um 20:06 schrieb Evan Ward: >>>>>>> This is a [VOTE] for releasing Apache Commons Math 3.6.1 from >>>>>>> release candidate 1. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tag name: >>>>>>> MATH_3_6_1_RC1 (signature can be checked from git using 'git >>>>>>> tag -v') >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tag URL: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-math.git;a=tag; >>>>>> h=e40b144832c0e138b185c92326588a087e00909c >>>>>>> Commit ID the tag points at: >>>>>>> 16abfe5de688cc52fb0396e0609cb33044b15653 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Site: >>>>>>> http://home.apache.org/~evanward/commons-math-3.6.1-RC1-site >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Distribution files: >>>>>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/math/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Distribution files hashes (SHA1): >>>>>>> 4d4bb6741f9b5d095bcab24f5232a871ba579df0 >>>>>> commons-math3-3.6.1-bin.tar.gz >>>>>>> e088b160c19af7ca2596d91430b8a71aaa5ea5da >>>>>>> commons-math3-3.6.1-bin.zip >>>>>>> 77ffe792e4bf0d4bcd7b4e2a8ce3b07df40a92b9 >>>>>> commons-math3-3.6.1-src.tar.gz >>>>>>> cadad1cbb7757b2616a96b20d357e3a6acb1b4c9 >>>>>>> commons-math3-3.6.1-src.zip >>>>>>> >>>>>>> KEYS file to check signatures: >>>>>>> http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/KEYS >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Maven artifacts: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommo >>>>>> ns-1142/org/apache/commons/commons-math3/3.6.1/ >>>>>>> [ ] +1 Release it. >>>>>>> [ ] +0 Go ahead; I don't care. >>>>>>> [ ] -0 There are a few minor glitches: ... >>>>>>> [ ] -1 No, do not release it because ... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This vote will close in 72 hours, at 2016-03-20T12:00:00Z (this >>>>>>> is UTC time). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Best Regards, >>>>>>> Evan >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
