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Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:24:40PM -0500, Michael Parker wrote: > > There actually have been 3 +1s, quinlan's just hasn't made it to the > > list yet. I've already moved the files over to dist. > > So yeah, this is what happened with 3.0.2 and it's annoying. For 3.0.2, > everything was decided on IRC, people posted to dev@ to "make it official" > within a 5 minute span, and a release happened within an hour. > > Votes need to occur on the list to be considered official, votes on > IRC or whatever don't count. Votes are also supposed to run for at > least 24 hours to give everyone a chance to see it and make comments. > Releases can't be vetoed, but the procedures we have documented explain > why this is still useful. > > If we don't want to put the patch in, that's fine, but I'd like to > have release votes go as they're supposed to before the release is > actually done. OK, that sounds very logical to me. I think we are too late for 3.0.3 (nor is it a massive bug, fwiw), but future releases, we should adopt the 24-hours policy, as a guideline at least, to catch last-minute stuff. And strongly +1 on "votes on the list *only*". The IRC channel is nice, but we're not all there ;) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCcDG5MJF5cimLx9ARAg9uAKCXp0EUPKjfU7MzeQjkpQcwyhSf6QCdHZry 9smHOueY67g7wSLxPxAsGkE= =I5Fe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
