On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:48 PM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> IMO, you don't need to cancel this RC if there is agreement to extend > the timeframe and there isn't anything found that needs to be fixed > (avoiding referencing -1's because release votes are majority -- > Accumulo is different in that we often treat release votes as consensus). > > Making the vote longer is fine without re-casting it, making it shorter > (but not shorter than 72hrs) would be bad thing to do. > Extending the vote duration during the vote is usually bad form, as it can appear questionable, like you're only extending in order to achieve a desired result. In general, it would be better to explicitly cancel it, and issue a new one with a new duration. Or, just let it play out, and issue a new one if it fails (more -1s than +1s, or insufficient +1s). Personally, I'm in favor of the latter... let it play out. If people get a chance to test and vote, then great, there's nothing to worry about. If people don't get a chance to test to their satisfaction, and not enough people vote, then it won't pass. But others could test and +1 without them, and it could still pass, and that's fine. Since nobody has voted yet, you *could* extend it without the appearance of impropriety, but personally I think it's better to just let it play out rather than prematurely conclude not enough people will be able to test to their satisfaction and vote. As for the concern about making it standard for some releases being longer, to account for more testing time.... I'm not a fan of that... it would be better if folks got involved and did testing *prior* to voting. Extending the voting period to account for last-minute testing from otherwise inactive (or, at least, not-routinely-testing) developers does not seem to me to be a good idea, because it seems to encourage an overall lack of participation, except to weigh in and hold up things at the last minute. I'm not implying that we have developers doing this... but I just wouldn't want to encourage that sort of thing.
