I've seen a few (recent) incubator votes that imply that there are two separate, distinct votes: one in the podling and one in the incubator general. And lots of questions about binding votes and carried-over votes and whose votes are counted.
I'd like to suggest: There is one vote for a podling release candidate. The first phase of the vote takes place on the podling dev list. Anyone can vote. An affirmative vote by three PPMC members (including mentors) is sufficient to start the second phase, which takes place on the incubator general list. An individual's vote can be changed any time during either phase until the final vote is tallied. All votes are counted. Only IPMC member votes are binding. The final tally counts affirmative, neutral, and negative votes from both phases combined and affirmative, neutral and negative binding votes from both phases combined. This terminology answers questions about: Whether PPMC votes are binding. They are not. Whether IPMC member votes on the first phase of voting carry over to the second phase. They do. Whether public votes in either phase count. They do. Whether public votes in either phase are binding. They are not. If we agree on the terminology, I'll see what documents need to be updated. Craig L Russell c...@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
