The language goes back to at least July 3, 2004. Regards, Dave
> On Oct 18, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Joseph Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com.INVALID> > wrote: > > 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 >
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