----- Original Message ----- > From: William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:11 PM > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] eliminate vetoes on personnel votes > > 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. >> >> I intend to offer a policy vote on this issue over the coming >> days and that vote, as with all procedural votes, is NOT subject >> to veto. > > Just FTR; as a proposal to modify a policy/process which requires > consensus today, your eventual [VOTE] does require consensus to be > adopted. You can't do an end run around the current policy with > a simple majority.
Plainly wrong: It has been repeatedly established (even by the Chair) that policy decisions here are not subject to veto. This is one of those times. Furthermore the documentation [1] clearly points out that procedural issues are to be decided by majority consensus, and nothing could be more procedural than a vote about how to count votes. [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
