On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for following up Chip. Though I do just want to clarify one > misconception. > > On 29 October 2012 13:21, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > >> >> I actually have more than enough votes right now to close the thread >> out on the project's dev list, and open up a vote for the IPMC. > > > No you don't. > > To me, this sounds like you're saying "to be honest, I could just close the > vote and ship this right now if I wanted to." I'm not sure if that was the > intended message.
Nope, that's not what I was saying. That's taking a single comment out of the context of the larger email. > But regardless, you couldn't. A single -1 vote would be > enough to block the release. Binding or not binding. It doesn't matter. If > somebody expresses a real, and justified, concern about the artefact, then > you don't release until you've addressed that concern. If that's true, then should the release policy [1] be updated? [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#approving-a-release > I have not given a -1, because I do not personally vote until I am > confident enough that I am not going to change my mind. (Ironic given that > I gave the release a +1 and then later changed my mind and retracted it.) > But I have signalled a clear concern, and that is enough to halt the vote. > > AS IT HAPPENS, I am hoping that someone more experienced than me can assure > us both that this is a minor issue and that we can proceed with the > release, and get this fixed afterwards. I just don't > feel comfortable making that judgement call myself. > > But I did want to make it clear that the technicalities of not having a -1 > are unimportant. > > -- > NS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
