actually, there's a good thread on legal-discuss regarding this topic starting at:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and for anyone's email client that wraps the previous line: http://tinyurl.com/nunu8 -jean Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Michelle Caisse wrote: > >>Jean T. Anderson wrote: >> >> >>>One clarifying procedural note ... voting guidelines for releases are >>>here: >>> >>>http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes >>> >>>A release requires three binding +1 votes -- db pmc votes are binding >>>for derby. A -1 expresses an opinion, but can't actually veto a release. >>>That much said, the community should consider any -1 votes. >>> >> >>Can you point me to where it says that pmc votes are binding for Derby? >>I see that http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html says "the basic >>rule is that only PMC members have binding votes", but according to >>http://db.apache.org/decisions.html, only committers have binding >>votes. By my reading, Apache gives precedence to the community rules. > > > PMCs fall under ASF guidelines. If you've noticed recent derby vote > threads, committers and db pmc members are always identified in the > final result post. We haven't have a situation yet where a derby vote > had fewer than 3 db pmc votes, so it hasn't been an issue. > > -jean > >
