It was pointed out to us that Apache projects should formalize their bylaws--basically how votes are done, who votes on what, and what the criteria are for voting. We have been acting informally so far and haven't really taken the time to do this.
Here is a set of bylaws which I propose we adopt: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Bylaws In true open source fashion this is cut-and-pasted and improved from the Hive bylaws. I am a binding +1. :-) -Jay
