Hi, > To me the ultimate reference is > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html - decisions are made by > consensus (*) which can be expressed by a majority vote with a least > three +1s, and vetoes are only valid for code changes.
That page has a few issues IMO, for starters it not clear what "procedural issue” actually are or if it includes voting in PMC/committers or not. This has been discussed many times and changes suggested to be made to that page but none made. I was going to suggest some after discussion on the default guidelines thread on the board list. Other pages [1] list consensus approval, as do a lot of project guidelines, including probably the HTTP one which states "approved by consensus of the active Apache PMC members”. I think some of this is confusion between what consensus means and consensus voting mean (or more correctly consensus approval) [2] (i.e. 3+1s and no -1’s.) But perhaps this old (and perhaps familiar?) thread will help [3], particular this email [4] and the solution from the email [5] :-) There are other threads (newer and older) that come to the same conclusion. Thanks, Justin 1. https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html#discussion 2. https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#ConsensusApproval 3. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c1a4887cc1b31bb85fcdbd0481d9f70895738740610aace15a7c9a3@1380595285@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E 4. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8a2136812c31e7d05a4b1b8d07481e25438fbda5c30138770a072705@1380737476@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E 5. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e7e1a40246df6e40188d06818ee296c8cd7a29002f5af9164b6a64d6@1380815332@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
