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On 15 December 2013 20:29, Tim Williams <william...@gmail.com> wrote: > Like most things around here, it's best to ask in the specific > community where you find the confusion. In the case of Labs, it's a > known issue[1]. If you want to help us (labs) improve the situation, > that'd be great. There's history in our mail archives. > > Thanks, > --tim > > [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LABS-512 > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:21 AM, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I am not sure if this is the right place for such a question/suggestion, but >> better here than nowhere :-) >> >> I have lately been meet with confusion in 2 situations, both at ASF >> community level (at least if you look from a distance). >> >> Lazy consensus defines "silence is consensus", but projects (like e.g. labs) >> tends to redefine this rule: >> >> "Every ASF committer can ask for one or more labs. The creation of the lab >> requires a PMC lazy consensus vote (at least three +1 and no -1, 72 hours)" >> >> In my mind this sentence is hard to understand, does it mean: >> a) PMC who dont send an explicit +1/-1 cast a +1 == "silence is concensus" >> or >> b) 3 +1 pmc votes is needed, so the rules of "lazy consensus" does not >> apply >> >> The people who wrote the lines I quote are all much more experienced in "the >> apache way" than I am, but I believe its important that newcomers (like >> myself) can read and understand what is written, without having to read >> "between the lines". >> >> I suggest, that we make an effort to at least at ASF community level, not to >> confuse, but to be precise. I believe it would be correct to append [1] >> with: >> >> "Lazy consensus cannot be used, if the project requires a minimum number of >> +1 for the proposal to be accepted" >> >> @labs, please dont feel targeted, I am not picking on your project (which I >> happen to believe is VERY important, and much too unknown"), but allowing >> myself to use your good website as documentation for my point. >> >> rgds >> jan I. >> >> >> [1] http://community.apache.org/committers/lazyConsensus.html >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org