On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Mark Phippard wrote: > Anyway, my feeling has been that one of the blockers to being RM is > motivation. My feeling has been that it is a fair amount of work that > might not go anywhere because we do not have enough interest in > reviewing and signing the release. So why put in the effort to do this > when the votes are not going to happen?
It is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. We have never had a problem getting the release out the door once an RM did step up. Enough people always joined in to help once the ball got rolling. > We have also always had what I > thought was a peculiar policy that the RM's votes did not "count". So > often the most motivated member of our community steps forward to do > the RM work, and now we have lost the one sure thing vote we would > have had for the release. We have already made the RM's vote count during our most recent releases, as far as I remember. At least I did it that way to expedite the process. The ASF requires release signatures by at least 3 PMC members. Any further restrictions are self-imposed and can be avoided if needed.
