At 02:49 AM 7/6/2005, David Crossley wrote: >Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> >> [snip]... What the vote does is three things: >> >> 1) it provides a legally binding, public decision of the project; > >I am confused by that statement. We conduct our committer votes on >the project's private mailing list, following a procedure that >our PMC has agreed upon. Our PMC is the group that makes our decisions, >and everyone in the group is on that mailing list. Is that not legal?
As all PMC traffic is also archived, of course it's legal. It isn't (as Roy points out) public, but private archives are equally binding. In fact, most actions by the PMC Chairman (a VP of the ASF) are binding. Ideally the PMC Chairman executes the will of the project. This is why people-requests to our infrastructure or root should always come from the Chair him-or-herself. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
