I wouldn't worry about voting on RC4 now. Christian still had some points to fix. On 14 Sep 2013 09:35, "Zachary Yaro" <zmy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > >