Craig, If you have a case to site, it may make it easier to follow how it would be different.
One area where I do see consistent confusion on are the votes that count. I personally want to see a more fluid vote policy, but it should be clearer which votes were cast and which votes are binding. At one point, I updated [1] to reflect the binding part, but the struggle remains. John [1]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#PPMC+binding+votes On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:00 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
