I would be in favor of removing "consensus" from our documentation.
It has a general meaning of "group agreement" which is not how we use it here. I would propose using "unanimous" instead of "consensus" as there seems to be no ambiguity about unanimity. And then "majority approval" which is "more +1 than -1 votes". So we would have these with the Apache three vote minimum: Procedural votes (new PMC members, new committers) require majority approval with at least three +1 votes. Code changes require unanimous approval with at least three +1 votes. While I really dislike changing history, "consensus" has been a bad term for so long... Craig > On Oct 31, 2024, at 07:04, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:57 PM Rich Bowen <notificati...@github.com> > wrote (on a GitHub page): >> >> I think possibly one of the points of confusion here is the use of the word >> "consensus", >> which has been a point of confusion for years, since that word has several >> substantially different uses.... > > We do have an ASF glossary at > https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary, which we might improve and > which we should IMHO point to more often. > > Or maybe create an additional glossary on the comdev website, and link > both pages for completeness. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > Craig L Russell c...@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
