Ross Gardler wrote:
Since we have a number of new developers arriving perhaps those new to the Apache Way would like to read:
Consensus Gauging through Voting: http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html
Which states in the introduction:
There are essentially three types of vote:
1. Code modifications, 2. Package releases 3. Procedural
(note there is nothing there about decision making)
You may also be interested in this blog post and those linked from it:
http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/page/bayard/20050319#apache_meritocracy_consensus_and_despotism
http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000172.html
and
http://www.jroller.com/page/rgardler/20050324#effective_decision_making_in_community
(which all say much the same thing but all come from slightly different angles)
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I wounder if we should put some/all of these links into one of our mail templates for inviting/accepting a new committer?
It would be better to distill those comments into the top-level documents at www.apache.org/dev/ But yeah, linking to them is next best.
I like yours the most. Someone should press-gang you into writing documents for Forrest.
:-))
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Ross
