Hi Mark, Community members testing the releases and voting is helpful information and possibly could influence a binding vote, but whether a release passes or not depends votes from Project Management Committee (PMC) members.
>From http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html: Binding Votes Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. > However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have binding votes, and > all others are either discouraged from voting (to keep the noise down) or > else have their votes considered of an indicative or advisory nature only. > That's the general rule. In actual fact, things tend to be a little > looser, and procedural votes from developers and committers are sometimes > considered binding if the voter has acquired enough merit and respect in > the community. Only votes by PMC members are considered binding on > code-modification issues, however. I hope that helps. Thank you for asking! Brent On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Mark Gerard <kata.map...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Brent - > > Am I right to assume that this vote applies to committers only? :) > > Mark > > > On Feb 3, 2015, at 22:08, Brent Atkinson <brent.atkin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > After chasing down the final pieces that I needed I started to prepare a > > 1.4.3 release for a vote. However, I realized that when following the > > release instructions, I misinterpreted the order of operations for the > > release notes. > > > > I have performed the release process steps up to, but not including, > step 6 > > from http://continuum.apache.org/development/release.html: > > > > 6. Call for a vote in the dev list and wait for 72 hours for the vote > >> results. 3 binding votes from PMC members are necessary for the release > to > >> be finalized > > > > > > The release notes that were tagged were not updated. However, since the > doc > > module does not appear to be versioned with the main project (it is > > 1.4.3-SNAPSHOT and not 1.4.3), can I just > > update continuum-docs/src/site/xdoc/release-notes.xml and restage the > docs > > or do I have to go about rolling everything back? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Brent > >
