On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 02:27 PM, John Plevyak wrote: > >> I have a couple concerns. >> >> Primarily with Consensus definition. I think we need to say that if you >> don't >> respond within a particular time (1 week) then you obtain. I wouldn't >> want >> to have folks who have vanished hold up a "consensus". >> > > Actually, re-reading the page and your question, never mind my previous > answer (we already have the 72 hour time limit on all normal votes). > > Yes, there is no specific text dealing with required people not voting on a > consensus vote. We have two options: > > 1) add what you propose, that not voting on a Consensus vote becomes an > implicit "0" vote (I don't know of any better definition of abstain than > that). > > I think we should clarify this. I do hope it doesn't come up, but I'd rather have it written down if we need it. For consensus we could make it a week which I think is more than reasonable. > 2) leave it as is, and hope that if we ever get to a consensus vote > situation, we'll get everyone on the PMC to vote. > > Thoughts? > > -- Leif > >
