----- Original Message ----
> From: Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:50:42 PM
> Subject: RE: Making up policy on the fly
>
> Ted Leung wrote:
>
> > Joe Schaefer wrote:
> > > If we tell you something is best-practice, why do *we* have to
> > > defend ourselves?
>
> Who is WE and YOU? WE the ASF? WE the Infra Team? YOU a podling? YOU a
> fellow ASF Member?
We being Sebb and I as members of the Infra team. You being the folks
on this mailing list. Infra is responsible for overseeing foundation-wide
policy for releases and more generally distributions.
> > > Shouldn't people *know* what the actual position of the foundation
> > > is before running around casting foundation votes?
>
> Feel free to bring that up on members@ the next time we vote for Members and
> Directors.
Members and Directors don't vote on releases, that is the responsibility
of a PMC member. It is particularly troubling to me that so few folks
in the IPMC are actually familiar with the foundation's position on
distributions and releases.
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