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On Jan 30, 2012, at 5:34 PM, "William A. Rowe Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 1/30/2012 6:06 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> It is clear that with all the turmoil of late and people >> lightly tossing around -1's that the notion of having veto >> authority over personnel matters makes little sense on this >> PMC. Therefore I propose we adopt the policy that personnel >> votes are by straight majority consensus, iow no vetoes allowed. > > -1 > > The argument is very simple, you don't allow a simple majority to > tyrannize the minority. So the ASF has long held a simple standard > of consensus on all committee additions and subtractions. Some > majority might be irked at [insert name here]'s [actions|inaction| > comments|silence] but that was never grounds to remove a committee > member. If you want to propose some supermajority metric other than > "unanimous", that could work (e.g. 2/3 or 3/4 in agreement In your plan then a -1 is really a -2 or -3? Sounds like a filibuster... Regards, Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
