Arguing about the vote procedure isn't likely to get you very far. At this point, I would recommend that you hold a vote on the appropriate Trac mailing list regarding approving or disapproving a fork and then forwarding that here. If the existing community doesn't want a fork I would suspect the incubator PMC would require the bloodhound project not to start from one.
Ralph On Dec 31, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Ethan Jucovy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > >> I find this post disturbing. Had it been posted before the vote closed I >> most certainly would have voted -1 as we don't encourage hostile forks at >> the ASF. > > > I hadn't realized the vote was closed until after sending the message -- my > apologies. I don't wish to stir things up unnecessarily but is there any > possibility of redoing the vote? > > * Per [1,2,3] it's not clear to me that the vote followed the Incubator's > documented procedures. Who was the Sponsor who called the vote? > Presumably Hyrum Wright is acting as Champion, but he seems to have > initiated and closed the vote as well as making the proposal. > > * The announcement that the vote was closed, and the tally of votes, was > not made in a separate thread. (I was not subscribed to this list until > this week; until then I was only watching the discussion through the web > archive, and I didn't notice that the vote was closed.) > > * Having a 72 hour voting period does not seem to be required[4] and it > seems very short for a proposal of this nature. (Finding the time to write > my message, and collecting the references, took me five days.) > > * In particular a 72 hour voting period in the middle of December seems > especially short, as many people travel or are otherwise occupied for > holidays. > > [1] "The decision to accept a project is taken on a vote by the > Sponsor." from > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Process_Description.html#Acceptance > > [2] "The decision to approve the candidate proposal MUST be taken on a vote > by the Sponsor" from > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Approval+of+Proposal+by+Sponsor > > [3] > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html#Sponsor > > [4] "The Sponsor will typically take about 7-10 days before announcing a > vote result." > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Process_Description.html#Acceptance -- > though glancing through the list's recent archives a 72-hour period doesn't > seem atypical. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
