Hello PMC Members and developers, Subsequent to the confusion recently over the proposed change to an as-of-yet-unreleased API change, and follow-on concerns that existing HTTP API endpoints not be deprecated without sufficient warning, I am proposing a change to the CouchDB Bylaws.
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-www/pull/27 This change proposes a mandatory developer mailing list notification and at least a Lazy Consensus decision whenever a backwards-incompatible change is made to a release branch, or to master. It encourages the same for any non-breaking change, but stops short of requiring it. It also takes the step that changes to master constitute a technical decision of the project, since our intention is that master is always releasable, and quite often new minor releases of CouchDB are forked from master, not the previous major or minor release branch. As this is a "Create or amend any document marked as official" decision, it is being announced to the main development list. A lazy 2/3rds majority is required to pass the change, meaning to pass it must garner three or more binding +1 votes, and twice as many binding +1 votes as binding -1 votes. Only PMC Members may cast binding votes. No vetoes are allowed. CouchDB PMC, please vote now. -Joan
