1. Those are the criterion for approval. None of them contain timeframes. Apache has general rules around voting, from which the Kafka process is drawn. See https://httpd.apache.org/dev/voting.html. Kafka uses the 3 day minimum voting period, although some votes naturally go longer than that simply because the person running the vote doesn't tally the results until later :) 2. http://kafka.apache.org/committers.html 3. Project Management Committee. See http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html
-Ewen On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Jens Rantil <jens.ran...@tink.se> wrote: > Hi, > > I just read through the KIP process[1] and have three specific questions: > > 1. I notice that the voting is executed using "Lazy Majority"[2]. > However, I was surprised that "Lazy Majority" doesn't stipulate a time > for > how long a voting process will go on. I assume I can't vote "No" to > issues > that were voted on a month ago, right? > 2. Is there a list of the people who have binding votes somewhere? That > is, a list of the active committers. > 3. What does "PMC" stand for? > > [1] > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Bylaws#Bylaws-Approvals > > Thanks, > Jens > > -- > Jens Rantil > Backend engineer > Tink AB > > Email: jens.ran...@tink.se > Phone: +46 708 84 18 32 > Web: www.tink.se > > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/#!/tink.se> Linkedin > < > http://www.linkedin.com/company/2735919?trk=vsrp_companies_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A1057023381369207406670%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2735919%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary > > > Twitter <https://twitter.com/tink> > -- Thanks, Ewen
