Keith N. McKenna wrote:
In his second vote announcement Peter also specified that to cast a
non-binding vote one still had to download and compile the source on
ones own machine and then test that binary. This is far over and above
anything that has ever been required for a non-binding vote.
Whether a vote is binding or not depends entirely on the role: due to
legal issues, votes from PMC members are (always) "binding", meaning
that they are counted separately, even though everyone is welcome to vote.
We need to have on record at least three PMC members who built from
source and tested for the vote to be considered valid. The threshold of
three is a hard requirement.
While building would be required of other people too, we've historically
not been very rigid on this, provided that voters in general, so both
PMC members and people from the community at large, simply write (a
subset of) what they did.
Summarizing:
- If you, PMC member or not, feel that the release is good enough,
please do vote and say something "+1; I tested the Italian version on
MacOS, opened ODF and .docx files, everything was OK" and nobody will
ask you whether you built from source or not; this is very valuable
feedback as we would have very limited platform/language coverage otherwise.
- In order to close the vote successfully, at least 3 PMC members must
explicitly write in their statement that they built from source and
tested their own builds. This ensures we meet the minimum requirements.
Regards,
Andrea.
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