Dear Apache Maven Community, Recently, in a discussion within the PMC, we discovered a complete misconception about release votes: a lot of people feel that voting on releases is not useful if you are not in the PMC. That's wrong!
After digging into the issue, we found that a few years ago, when we improved our legal requirements on releases (by ensuring vote on source distribution and not only convenience binary and that we had a minimum of 3 PMC votes), we introduced a misleading wording in our voting template about this "3 PMC minimum votes" requirement: we called them "binding", then counted "binding vs non-binding" votes. Yes, these "non-binding" votes are not binding regarding legal requirements, but they are the most useful feedback we are looking for when we vote on a release = does it work in real users environment? In conclusion, we decided: 1. to change our wording and remove this "binding vs non-binding" count: we still need to find a new wording 2. to explain the issue to the whole community to get feedback You already saw some experiments around this in recent votes. We need your feedback on this change, we need your feedback on release votes: in short we need your involvement. Don't hesitate to tell us if we missed something, or to share ideas. We hope this will improve future evolutions of our beloved Apache Maven project with the help of the whole community. Regards, Hervé Apache Maven PMC Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
