>From http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html;
"Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have binding votes, and all others are either discouraged from voting (to keep the noise down) or else have their votes considered of an indicative or advisory nature only. That's the general rule. In actual fact, things tend to be a little looser, and procedural votes from developers and committers are sometimes considered binding if the voter has acquired enough merit and respect in the community. Only votes by PMC members are considered binding on code-modification issues, however." Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Elsdörfer Sent: 13 April 2009 22:16 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: SDKs & comparison with the iPhone > it would be done on a discussion list, which would fit in with many > open source projects I've worked on where pre-release versions are > circulated and then developers say "Yay" or "Nay" to whether it's good > enough to call a production release, I'm not sure what Open Source projects work like that. All projects I've ever been involved with have some kind of circle of leadership that decides what is released, and when. Sometimes community input plays a larger role, sometimes it is smaller. I think we all agree that Android moving towards being more community driven is a good thing, and should happen rather sooner than later. But at the end of the day, there will always be a single instance calling the shots, and for Android, for the foreseeable future, that will be Google. You really can't expect a random private build that you made to be considered anything other than unofficial. In pretty much any Open Source project I've ever heard of. Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
