Hi We (Corinthia) is currently having an interesting discussion about voting, one of the questions are about consensus instead of vote.
In a TLP the rules for sending a NOTICE mail to board are simple: - The Chair can do it based on consensus or a vote, without mail reference - Any PMC members can do it based on a vote, WITH a mail reference. Now a PPMC does not have a chair, so I assumed a Vote is mandatory (see also http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html that talks about voting in a new PPMC. But doubt has been raised, whether the IPMC would also acknowledge consensus ? In my opinion, the IPMC "simulates" board, and should allow the podlings as much freedom as possible, hence allow consensus even though a podling has no chair. Thoughts ? rgds jan i
