Hi all, In the VOTE threads, you might wonder what ‘binding’ and ‘non binding’ means.
Binding means the voter has status in that part of the vote. In the PPMC vote thread for Apache NetBeans 10, which is currently running, everyone who is a PPMC member / committer (i.e., you were on the initial list or voted in explicitly after that) has a binding vote (whether you label it binding or not) So far, everyone who voted in the vc5 vote thread is a PPMC member / committer and hence all current votes are binding for the PPMC vote thread. When Laszlo puts the result thread together he’ll note all current votes as binding (more may still be added until the voting period is over, at which point there could be non binding votes too, i.e., anyone at all is able to vote) for the PPMC vote. If one of our mentors or another Apache member or IPMC member votes in the vc5 PPMC thread, then Laszlo will list those in the IPMC vote thread as already having voted and their vote being binding in the IPMC vote thread. IPMC governs the Incubator which we are part of and which we’ll work on graduating from once we finally release Apache NetBeans 10. Thanks, Gj
