Hi, > I basically agree with most of the things you say here, but in an Apache > project, you cannot set rules unilaterally. No one person has that authority > over the project. We all all equals. Decisions can only be made with > concurrence from other team members and we can only get concurrence through a > full vote.
Refining that a bit. It true no one has authority but it's best to try and to reach consensus by discussion. Voting too often or too early makes winners and losers and splits the community. Vote when done is usually made to confirm that consensus and when called teh outcome is already known. I would not suggest having a vote on this in such a short time frame. Thanks, Justin
