Good point about knowing which list to vote on. As for the voting new committers, it would be very hard for me to imagine a nominee being rejected. I would not call it a formality, but essentially the only criteria is having x patches. (Its not dancing with the stars :)
Ed On Friday, October 22, 2010, Carl Steinbach <c...@cloudera.com> wrote: > "Decisions regarding the project are made by votes on the primary project > development mailing list (u...@hive.apache.org <u...@pig.apache.org>). Where > necessary, PMC voting may take place on the private Hive PMC mailing list." > > It would be good if the "Actions" table included a column specifying which > mailing list each type of vote should occur on. Also, at the first > contributors meeting there was a discussion about the process for becoming a > committer and whether or not people would be notified that they have been > nominated, and hence know if they're nomination was later rejected. If these > votes are going to take place on the PMC list I think it's important for this > provision to appear in the bylaws. > > Thanks. > > Carl > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ning Zhang <nzh...@facebook.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > +1 > > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Ashish Thusoo wrote: > > > > > Hi Folks, > > > I propose that we adopt the following bylaws for the Apache Hive Project > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/HIVE/bylaws.html > > > These are basically a cut-and-paste job of the Apache Pig bylaws that were > recently proposed by Alan Gates. > > > We will keep the vote open for 6 business days. In order for these bylaws to > pass we require +1 votes from 2/3 of PMC members. All Pig users, > contributors, committers are encouraged to vote, though only PMC votes will > be binding. > > > > +1 from me.. > > > Ashish > > > > > > > > > > >
