Yes, thank you, I really appreciate the additional clarification. Should I send such a vote to the RC4 vote thread, or is there going to be a later RC5 thread I should wait for?
—Zachary Yaro On 14 September 2013 04:26, Ali Lown <a...@lown.me.uk> wrote: > > > Also, don't assume you need to be a committer to vote. > > > > I thought I had to be. So can any member of the community vote? How > much > > do I need to know about the code to submit a vote? For instance, I do > not > > know much about how federation works behind-the-scenes, but I can give my > > opinion on the UX... > > > > It is slightly more subtle than that. Whilst the voting documentation > states that only committers/PMC can vote - it really means that they have > binding votes (so if we had lots of +1 from the community, but a PMC voted > -1, their vote would 'override' the community votes). > > However having lots of community votes is a good sign to the incubator - > since it shows that the project's community is active - and it is even > plausible that the community might find things that we don't (due to trying > the release in lots of different ways). > > If you can only review part, that is still fine. Place your vote and simply > state that you were only able to review the UX. > > Does this clarify it a bit? (I agree that perhaps I hadn't been clear in > the past) > > Ali >
