Thanks Adam Well run vote.
Yes, tallying on larger project votes is a known pain point. Hence STeVe was proposed but hasn't seen much uptake yet. I appreciate you making this clear and providing traceability. James On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM Adam Monsen <[email protected]> wrote: > The vote on FSIP-9 > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/FSIP-9%3A+Standardize+on+PostgreSQL> > passed. The vote thread is archived here > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/f2kqjbw5rcopzcnfr0w461wxq8do727j>. > > The binding votes were cast as follows: > > +1 Adam Monsen > +1 Ed Cable > +1 James Dailey > +1 Arnold Galovics > +1 Bharath Gowda > +1 Terence Monteiro > +1 Victor Manuel Romero Rodriguez > +1 Ádám Sághy > +1 Aleksandar Vidakovic > +1 Awasum Yannick > > There were 10 binding votes. > > Of these binding votes, 10 were +1, 0 were -1, and 0 were 0. > > The non-binding and contributor votes were cast as follows: > > +1 Paul > +1 Aman Mittal > +1 Ashhar Ahmad Khan > +1 Kengne Yvana > +1 Aira Jena > +1 Krishna Mewara > +1 Sandro Martínez > +1 Deepak Kumar > +1 Edward Kang > +1 Anu Omotayo > +1 Ambika > +1 Nidhi Bhawari > +1 Naphlin Peter > +1 Ippez Robert > +1 John Ruhiu > +1 Vignesh E > +1 Dick Dickson > -1 Sifiso Mtetwa > +1 Fred Amaral > +1 Tofunmi Oguntibeju > +1 Sifiso Mtetwa > +1 Melvin Otieno > > Thank you for your participation. > > Sincerely, > Adam Monsen > > -- > > This was a painful to tally. The attached CSV is every email in the voting > thread in the order it was received. I distilled those data into the final > report above. > > I asked for help tallying in #tooling-discuss > <https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/C086X8CKEMB> on the ASF's Slack server > <https://the-asf.slack.com>. First, @akm offered an AI summary from Claude > <https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/C086X8CKEMB/p1774373143324099>. It > got the binding vote count right, but made other mistakes. Next, @sbp (in > the same channel) quickly set up > <https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/C086X8CKEMB/p1774373813284159> a tally > page in the ATR <https://release-test.apache.org/user/tally>. This had > mistakes as well. So I went back to the original email thread, first in my > email client, then in the ASF's mailing list archives (via Pony Mail). > > I counted 34 individual emails (messages, not votes) in my Mifos gmail > account in the [VOTE] FSIP-9: Standardize on PostgreSQL thread, including the > one from me initiating the vote > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/f2kqjbw5rcopzcnfr0w461wxq8do727j>. > > Pony Mail browse/search > <https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]:lte=1M:FSIP-9> > shows 34 emails (from 32 people) ✅ > > Pony Mail direct link to the voting thread > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/f2kqjbw5rcopzcnfr0w461wxq8do727j> shows > 28 emails (from 26 people) ⚠️ > > Hopefully we can come up with ways to ease future votes & tallies. Maybe > it's just a matter of everyone writing more careful emails, but it sure > seems like an app (or even a spreadsheet) would help a lot. > > Note: STeVe <https://github.com/apache/steve/> exists, but but that's not > ready for projects to use on their own yet (and I ran into a bug > <https://github.com/apache/steve/issues/97> while trying). >
