On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. > However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have binding votes, and > all others are either discouraged from voting (to keep the noise down) or > else have their votes considered of an indicative or advisory nature only.
I'd suggest dropping the bit about 'discouraged from voting' and replace 'advisory only' with simply 'advisory'. A non-PMC vote may be taken quite seriously or it might not be. The only points you need to make here is that non-PMC votes are not binding but are generally welcome. > Unless otherwise specified by a project's bylaws, only [active > members)(glossary.html#ActiveMembers) who have been active in the last 6 > months may cast binding votes. A different definition of active member > may also be set in a project's bylaws. I think that policy is less universal and I'd suggest not implying it was a default rule for all projects without bylaws. Some projects have periods of low activity and I'd expect votes of PMC members to still be considered valid even if they've not contributed for six months. For example, we want a low-activity project to be able to apply a few patches and make a release even if fewer than three PMC members were active in applying those patches over the last six months. Doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
