Dave - this was constructive, and well thought. I agree.
CJ
> On Oct 18, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html?
>
> 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
