On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote:
Alan,
Thanks for the proposal. Looks good! I have a couple of comments/
questions:
(1) I think all votes need to have a time boundary. For releases and
committers, we used to use 3 business days. I am fine if we choose
different/longer times and different time periods for different
types of votes but I think we should state what they are in the
document.
Seems fine. For votes that require everyone to vote is two weeks long
enough? It seems like all lazy votes can be 3 days.
(2) Seems like consensus and even 2/3 votes is very hard to achieve.
I wonder if simple majority would do just as well for all the cases
we have.
Consensus votes are only prescribed for removing PMC members or
committers. Unanimity (minus the one being removed obviously) seems
good in this case. It prevents power blocks from developing and
ensures that this only happens when it is obvious to everyone that it
needs to happen.
2/3s votes are only required for new code bases (basically new
subprojects) and modifications of the bylaws. I'm ok with dropping
this to simple majority if others agree.
Alan.
Olga
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Gates [mailto:ga...@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:18 PM
To: pig-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: [DISCUSS] Apache Pig bylaws
As directed in our vote to become a TLP, we (Pig's PMC) need to set
out bylaws for the project. I have put up a first proposal for these
by laws at http://wiki.apache.org/pig/ProposedByLaws. Please take a
look and give feedback.
Alan.
