Hi,

> This is again a case of misleading characterization of the issue in hand.

Sorry I don't believe it is.

The board requires oversight on releases and that means Majority Approval (ie 3 
binding +1 votes) the release only had 2 +1 binding votes. In this case it 
could be called into question if there were 3 binding votes or not if I carried 
over votes, so as RM I erred on the side of caution, again not unreasonable 
when legal matters are concerned. IMO it certainly wan't worth the time delay 
in involving legal (as the release has already been going on for a month) when 
the solution (get an extra vote) was minimal effort.

> We have already in the past, voted to allow 'carry over' of votes for minor, 
> non-code related changes.

Yes but not changes like this to NOTICE files. 

>  I know that nothing in the code changed, so I did not want to retest the 
> entire
> package.

So why not just vote +1? If you were confident there were no code changes, I 
don't think anyone would of had any issues of you voting +1 without retesting 
as were only minor changes to the code (3rd party XML file). And no one raised 
any objection to the 3rd +1 (which given the lack of detail) probably didn't 
involve retesting.

>  All this current vote does is remove that loophole.

Well it depends how it's implemented it could be taken to mean that I only need 
to vote on one RC and then can request to carry over my vote for every other RC 
with going through the release vetting process and the RM has to accept it. I 
hope not but time will tell.

Thanks,
Justin

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