Doug had a great question that had me digging through gdoc comments from 5 years ago to try and figure out the answer.
Our governance page here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+Project+Governance Felt kind of unclear on what committer votes were binding for or not, and what pmc votes were binding for or not. I tweaked heading sizes, added horizontal dividing lines, and then changed the following line: 1. Committer <https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?cassandra> votes are considered “binding <https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#binding-votes>” To: 1. Committer <https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?cassandra> votes are considered “binding <https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#binding-votes>” on code Which leads to a question for everyone. Currently, on that wiki doc we have: *How we vote as a community:* Which previously just had 'Committer votes are considered "binding"'. Then proceeded to talk about commit votes, CEP votes, and release votes. Committer votes are _not_ binding on releases as that's a legal thing with the ASF; have to be a PMC member for that to be binding which was sort of alluded to with the text: * Consensus: min 3 PMC +1, no PMC -1. These votes are neither Simple majority nor Super majority. Vetos are to be accompanied with (technical) rationale. For code commits we've considered committers binding. For CEP's.... ? Commit-bit binding? Or pmc binding? I *think* it's the former (committers) since that's the way the wiki reads, but I think we've been acting as PMC only binding for CEP's? I think clarifying this explicitly (i.e. in all 3 sections for code, CEP, and release, specify who's binding) would be good. What do we think? Is there a consensus and I'm the only one that's confused?
