I usually wait rhe business days. This time I thought it was fine given it was almost over, and I wanted to finish it before I was gone for a day tomorrow.
I will make sure I wait the businesss hours next time. Thanks Chris. Clebert Suconic On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM Christopher Shannon < christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Giving the date is fine, but I would still phrase it as something like > "Voting will continue until at least X date" just so everyone knows it > won't close before then, vs a hard deadline as it can still go longer > if something comes up. (outstanding issue, release manager is busy, > etc). > > The end time in UTC could be included as well but I'm not too worried > either way about it being exact as the spirit of the proposal is to > prevent stuff like starting a vote on friday afternoon and closing it > on monday afternoon when the majority of time people are probably not > even paying attention for the entire weekend so it is really just a 24 > hour vote. > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM Ken Liao <kenlia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Agree. And on a side note, to make it easier for the community, the email > > should include a date for the "deadline" of voting, instead of saying "it > > will be open for at least 72 hours". WDYT? > > > > Thanks, > > Ken > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM Jamie G. <jamie.goody...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I tend to agree here. > > > > > > Full builds with all unit tests on AMQ can take 4 to 5 hours , if one > is > > > testing many jvm vendors & platforms it can take a few days just to get > > > coverage. Weekend releases can make it challenging to complete them > all. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 19:23 Christopher Shannon < > > > christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > The Apache guideline for voting is that votes should run for at least > > > > 72 hours [1] but nothing prevents a vote from going longer. It also > > > > doesn't specify anything about votes on weekends or not but just > > > > generally 72 hours. > > > > > > > > Because there isn't a maximum time for votes, (I've seen votes go > > > > weeks on some projects), I think it would be a good idea if we > adopted > > > > a policy where we don't count weekend days or major holidays etc to > > > > allow for everyone 3 business days to be able to have a chance to > > > > review a release and vote. > > > > > > > > This doesn't have to be something super strict, we don't need to go > > > > crazy counting holidays as they can vary by country and region, but > > > > major holidays like New Years make sense. Urgent releases can also > > > > always go out quicker if needed, I just think it would be a nice goal > > > > for most releases though. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@activemq.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@activemq.apache.org > > > > For further information, visit: https://activemq.apache.org/contact > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@activemq.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@activemq.apache.org > For further information, visit: https://activemq.apache.org/contact > > >
