Private discussion to bring up any negative concerns leading to a public vote assuming the private discussion is favourable seems like a pretty safe approach to me.
On 12-01-31 1:46 PM, "Jukka Zitting" <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: >> Please indicate your vote add Steve (stevengill97 at gmail.com) as a >>committer. > >A bit late, but still enthusiastic +1! > >PS. There's traditionally been two approaches to committer votes >within Apache: One says that a committer vote should be conducted in >public on the dev@ list, as that can be a great source of morale boost >(+1s just keep piling in!). The other prefers to hold the vote on the >private (P)PMC list, as that makes it easier bring up possible >concerns ("his patches are always broken", etc.) and other sensitive >issues without embarrassing anyone in public. The collective >experience so far tends to favor making such personnel decisions in >private, or at least asking for any concerns in private before >starting a public committer vote. What approach do you think will work >best for Cordova? > >BR, > >Jukka Zitting