I will echo Thejas's concern w.r.t RC voting. Usually it takes 2-3 rounds of RC and folks generally tend to vote towards end of cycle. So, if we increase it to 7 days, we are looking at 21 days (in worst case) to get a release out, which may not be what we want. So, for RC vote my suggestion will be to stick with current 3-days voting period.
For other votes (like committers, branch merges etc.) I don't have much preference, but there also 7-days looks excessive. Thanks, Ashutosh On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Thejas Nair <the...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > The changes look good to me. > Only concern I have is with the 7 days for release candidate voting. > Based on my experience with releases, it often takes few cycles to get > the candidate out, and people tend to vote closer to the end of the > voting period. This can mean that it takes several weeks to get a > release out. But this will not be so much of a problem as long as > people don't wait for end of the voting period to vote, or if they > look at the candidate branch even before the release candidate is out. > > Should we also include a provision for branch merges ? I think we > should have a longer voting period for branch merges (3 days instead > of 1?) and require 3 +1s (this part is also in the hadoop by-law ) . > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Carl Steinbach <c...@apache.org> wrote: > > I think we should make several changes to the Apache Hive Project Bylaws. > > The proposed changes are available for review here: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=38568856 > > > > Most of the changes were directly inspired by provisions found in the > Apache > > Hadoop Project Bylaws. > > > > Summary of proposed changes: > > > > * Add provisions for branch committers and speculative branches. > > > > * Define the responsibilities of a release manager. > > > > * PMC Chairs serve for one year and are elected by the PMC using Single > > Transferable Vote (STV) voting. > > > > * With the exception of code change votes, the minimum length of all > voting > > periods is extended to seven days. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Carl > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You. >
