I agree with Dave. Lazy consensus gives us exactly what we need: to
know if someone would like branch-2.6 to stay alive. If no one
responds that they need it within the time period, then no one needs
it.

PIP 47 briefly mentions our EOL policy, but the policy doesn't cover
our current case where we released fewer than 4 minor versions in a
year. I think we'd benefit from clarifying and improving our
documentation for our EOL policy.

> This project VOTEs on more things than any Apache project I’ve been involved 
> with during the last 14 years.

The new PIP process, with its increased purview, has increased the
number of votes. I have appreciated the increased development
discussion on the ML, but maybe the discussions (especially the ones
that look like votes) and then the subsequent votes are leading to the
high vote volume.

We could update the PIP process so that DISCUSSIONS without any
pushback during a certain time period do not need VOTES.

Thanks,
Michael


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 6:00 PM Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> This project VOTEs on more things than any Apache project I’ve been involved 
> with during the last 14 years.
>
> For most projects lazy consensus applies: 
> https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#LazyConsensus
>
> We also tend to “vote” during discussions which does not really advance a 
> conversation.
>
> If we want to have a VOTE then there are good reasons to start it NOW.
>
> All the Best,
> Dave
>
> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 3:48 PM, Sijie Guo <guosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Agree to have a vote to keep a record.
> >
> > - Sijie
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:40 PM 陳智弘 <thomasec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think having a vote and quickly announce the EOF of 2.6.x will be better
> >> to the community.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> 於 2022年1月4日 週二 06:06 寫道:
> >>
> >>> I don’t think we need a VOTE. Let’s do this by LAZY CONSENSUS.
> >>>
> >>>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> We are no more cutting releases out of branch-2.6
> >>>>
> >>>> We must declare 2.6 EOF.
> >>>>
> >>>> IIUC there is no process established for this at the moment in the
> >> Pulsar
> >>>> project.
> >>>>
> >>>> So for this time I will call out a VOTE next week, as we did not cut
> >>>> releases for a few important bugs.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> Enrico
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>

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