On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>
wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>> would suggest given this
>> clarification on what a "binding" vote means, those cast by PMC members,
>> we need to definitely allow for a longer timeframe for release voting --
>> at
>> least a week for a final RC candidate I would think.
>>
>
> Release voting is not the moment for PMC members to learn how to build. I
> would not encourage arbitrary extensions of the standard 72 hours for
> voting (I would still be open to extend the period if someone requests an
> extension during the vote and has a valid reason for it of course).
>
I realize this. It's just that not all of our PMC members can immediately
do a build as soon as a release candidate is announced for testing. A week
for voting would at least include a weekend for folks to catch up. Given
the number of platforms we should be building and testing for a final
release, I think a longer vote timeframe is desirable.
>
> Between the moment a Release Candidate is tagged and the moment the vote
> finishes we already have a week or so, since building the release and
> uploading it takes days.
OK, but this is after the fact. After the RC has been approved.
> So people who want to vote based on the sources can and should start
> building when we tag a release, and they will have more time this way.
>
I understand what you're saying here. Still, I think we should have more
time for voting on the final release candidate. When we first started out
at Apache, we had some requests for a longer voting time on a release
candidate. Sometimes this happened, and sometimes it didn't.
>
> So a process that could work is: we tag sources (say, RC3 sources), we
> inform the dev list and we make the source package available. People can
> start building straight away. When binary builds are ready and uploaded
> (which takes days), we start the vote on that same source package plus the
> corresponding binary builds.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
>
Thank you for considering this suggestion.
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