Jacek Laskowski wrote:
1/ Be more active and describe the change so that not only are developers encouraged to test it out or even PMCers. Why is it that only committers and PMCers vote? Is the description of the change not easy to understand enough? I wonder what makes them unattractive for lurkers?
This is an interesting question that I've been mulling over for some time. I think that it's due, in no small part, to the tradition of tallying what votes are binding and what votes are not. Some projects don't even bother to tally non-binding votes.
I, myself, use to vote on a few projects and got discouraged when my vote was publicly tallied as "not mattering"; I now don't bother.
During my short tenor of a few years here at ASF as a committer and PMC member of many projects, I have never seen a vote tallied where it was necessary to point out the votes that "mattered". This was due to the fact that a consensus was usually formed by discussion before the vote took place. I think that as a rule, we shouldn't bother to delineate voting classes unless it was necessary to break an impasse.
Regards, Alan
