Branko Čibej wrote: > Please note: strictly speaking, it is not really a change in policy, > because we haven't really been producing alpha and beta releases > until now. An alpha or beta release is still considered an Apache > release, and therefore falls under the 3+1/no-1 rule.
It's not no -1's, it's 3 +1's and a majority: see <https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes>. - Julian