Would be more interesting to find out the genesis of that dreck and why it persisted til now.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Chris Johnson <ch...@meaningfulwerks.com> wrote: > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
