On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 06:42:09PM -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: > We should not be releasing without following the Apache release guidelines. > > In particular, 3 votes from the PMC are absolutely required to make a > release. This is a universal requirement for all Apache projects and > really isn't open for debate.
+1 > If we are consistently having problems getting 3 PM votes, then we need to > address that by adding active committers to the PMC, not by releasing > software without the necessary process. +1 Just to be clear - this means first putting up the release candidate, than getting the three votes, than actually doing the release - in that very order. Unless this process is followed our releases are no longer official Apache releases potentially calling very loudly for legal trouble. There is a discussion going on over at com-dev on faster release cadence for Apache releases - if you want to change the policy I would strongly urge you to participate there. However my personal take is that in case getting 3 PM votes is a problem, then we as a community have a problem with too few people having time to actually respond. Isabel
