On 10/29/02 2:42 PM, "Michael A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> On 10/29/02 12:15 AM, "Michael A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>>> On 10/28/02 8:23 AM, "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:08:02PM -0500, Michael A. Smith wrote: >>>>>> ... >>>>>> So, to clarify, committers on jakarta-commons voted for creating a >>>>>> management body of the code within the jakarta-commons cvs repository. >>>>>> Costin calls this the commons PMC, although the distinction should be >>>>>> made that this is not a board-recognized PMC. [SNIP] >>>> >>>> Sorry - I missed something. What did we vote on? >>>> >>>> I saw some discussion, but I didn't see a vote for anything... I must have >>>> missed it. >> >> And that was considered a *vote*?? > > It was discussion on a proposal in which many of the respondents replied > with a vote (i.e. +1). Thus, those respondants voted on the proposal. > Whether you call that a vote or not, I don't particularly care, as I > never said there was a vote. Just said that people voted. Sorry if the > terminology is a bit misleading. > Ok. It's really important that it isn't misleading. Voting is the primary way we decide things, and 'vote' has specific meaning to the wider Apache community. You could also say that "There was a discussion that some people were supportive of..." which is a bit more accurate than "committers on Jakarta-commons voted for..." geir -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-203-355-2219 (w) Adeptra Inc. +1-203-247-1713 (m) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
