Craig L Russell wrote:
I think it's confusing people to use the term "binding" in different
contexts. I'd like to propose that the term is only used to refer to
decisions/votes that are binding on The Apache Software Foundation,
which means decisions/votes made by a duly authorized PMC.
In particular, the following text implies that a PPMC has a "binding"
voice:
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases
"Therefore, should a Podling decide it wishes to perform a release,
the Podling SHALL hold a vote on the Podling's public -dev list. At
least three +1 votes are required (see the Apache Voting Process
page), and only the PPMC member votes are binding. If the majority of
all votes is positive, then the Podling SHALL send a summary of that
vote to the Incubator's general list and formally request the
Incubator PMC approve such a release. Three +1 Incubator PMC votes are
required. Below is an example showing how an incubating project
managed this process:"
I'd prefer if the text "only the PPMC member votes are binding" were
changed to "only the PPMC member votes are counted".
Better still, simply remove the entire text ", and only the PPMC
member votes are binding".
Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
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P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
Agree with Craig, the text above took me a while to work out what was
going and because PPMC votes are 'not' binding only IPMC votes are in
the incubator.
Carl.
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