Maybe we need to ask for review of http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval at the same time as looking at the voting process documentation. If taken literally, a PMC member who cannot do builds from source can't cast a +1 vote, because their vote is binding and a binding +1 requires a build from source.
Probably the ASF wants to guarantee that at least 3 PMC members are developers (or development inclined)?
What I would like is to change it to require at least three PMC members to declare they have done a build from source and tested the result. Other PMC members could vote based on binary testing and signature checking without building.
Actually for a multi-platform software such as AOO it should be required that building from source and testing the result was carried out by at least one voter (PMC member or not) for each of the platforms/bit depths. If all three PMC members have success in building on e.g. Linux x64 it does not provide any guarantee for the other platforms (as proven by 4.1.4 RC4)
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