Sid, Erm, the next line is (emphasis mine) :
PMC members have formally binding votes, but in general community members are encouraged to vote, even if their votes are *only advisory*. Again, that's not to say that the community at large cannot decide to host a Slack channel. I think you are more than welcome to if you want to. Best, Arthur On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:59 PM Sid Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > Why doesn't every vote matter for this topic? > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#binding-votes > > Am I misinterpreting the "Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a > community-specific thing."? > > For the established Apache processes around promoting a contributor to > committer/PMC, deciding on the number of +1s to allow a merge to master, or > voting on releases, I understand the need to follow the binding/non-binding > protocol. In all of those cases, the outcomes affect maintainers. > > My understanding is that this topic affects the entire community, where > some members of the community are helping others. This seems to chug along > without maintainers being present. Hence, why do maintainers' votes matter > more here? > > Question for the mentors.. Jakob? > > -s > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:27 PM Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Committers can only vote binding. Most of the time it is tagged by, > > indeed, adding "binding" to the vote. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On 9 Sep 2018, at 07:20, Scott Halgrim <[email protected] > .INVALID> > > wrote: > > > > > > What makes a vote binding? Just putting “(binding)” after your vote? > > >> On Sep 8, 2018, 10:19 PM -0700, Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]>, > > wrote: > > >> Sorry sid, only binding votes directly count to the vote. Please > update > > the > > >> result accordingly. > > >> > > >> Btw did you ask on gitter itself? > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Op zo 9 sep. 2018 03:47 schreef Sid Anand <[email protected]>: > > >> > > >>> +1: 12 votes > > >>> > > >>> - Sid Anand > > >>> - Steve Carpenter > > >>> - Beau Barker > > >>> - Marc Bollinger > > >>> - Pedro Machado > > >>> - Scott Halgrim > > >>> - Eamon Keane > > >>> - Adam Boscarino > > >>> - Daniel Cohen > > >>> - Chandu Kavar > > >>> - William Horton > > >>> - Ben Gregory > > >>> > > >>> 0: 2 votes > > >>> > > >>> - Bolke de Bruin > > >>> - Kaxil Naik > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> -0.5: 1 vote > > >>> > > >>> - Arthur Wiedmer > > >>> > > >>> -1: 4 votes > > >>> > > >>> - Shah Altaf > > >>> - James Meickle > > >>> - Ravi Kotecha > > >>> - airflowuser (??) > > >>> > > >>> The vote concludes with 12 votes for and 4.5 votes against. The > > community > > >>> has opted to move to Slack from Gitter. > > >>> > > >>> -s > > >>> > > >
