On 18/10/17 21:59, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi - > > Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html?
Wrong list. Mark > > A member of the Apache OpenOffice community pointed out that the > following phrase discourages participation: > > Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. > However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have binding votes, and > all others are either discouraged from voting (to keep the noise down) > or else have their votes considered of an indicative or advisory nature > only. > > I think that this should be rewritten as: > > Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. > However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have binding votes, and > all other votes are advisory. > > It has been reported that people are discouraged from participating with > the “to keep the noise down” commentary and I agree. > > Here is a current situation in Apache OpenOffice where we have been > regrowing the community and we just had an important -1 from a community > member that prevented a bad release. We must be careful that the English > on our pages is not tortured and overly pedantic. > > Regards, > Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
