Sure, makes sense, thanks for the correction. Gj
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm sorry for the correction, but: > > The only time when a PPMC member’s vote is binding is for the addition of > new PPMC members and committers. Release votes are only binding to IPMC > members. > > The binding status of a person’s vote is not related to the mailing list > that the vote is occurring on. > > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#ppmc_and_binding_votes > > On 12/19/18 12:55 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > >> 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 >> >>
