On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:58 +0100, Matthias Wessendorf wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 8:48 PM, Volker Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > copied from http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes : > > > > ... Releases may not be vetoed. ... > > > > To my understanding of this text the release manager just needs three > > +1 votes to release, even if there are -1 votes also. And as i wrote, > > this was not meant as a veto. > > yep. even 10 -1 votes. No veto. > It is up to the release mgr.
That's quite insane IMO, and I have no idea why it was written that way. The role of a PMC is to supervise the development and release of source code by a project. If it (ie a majority of PMC members) cannot block a release, then it cannot fulfil the purpose for which it was created. For the sake of project harmony, no decision should be pushed through even against the wishes of a significant minority of PMC members. Even the opposition of a significant number of non-pmc members should be of serious concern; open-source is fuelled mostly by goodwill. Of course all this is well understood already; I'm sure no ASF committer would even consider pushing through a release against opposition. But it sure is odd that the referenced page would say it is possible. I wonder why... BTW, all this is not relevant in this particular case, as this -1 is clearly marked as "dislike but not veto". Regards, Simon
