There's merit to both sides of the argument, but I believe both have
their excesses too. For "emergency" security releases only, a middle
ground would be to release immediately after 3+1 votes, but not higher
than a BETA grade. This will allow (1) publishing to the Maven repo for
immediate consumption but (2) the opportunity to withdraw a non-GA
release if, for some reason, a surprising veto happens to the way the
patch was implemented. If after 72 hours, it's still +3 and more than
the -1 votes, then just re-brand as GA and be happy.
Paul
Don Brown wrote:
While I suppose consulting the PMC would have been appropriate, I disagree
all votes, no matter what, should be open for 72 hours. In this case, a
severe security fix release, we should allow a shorter time. Perhaps that
would be 12 or 18 hours, but certainly no more than 24. Just because the
fix took a few days to arrive doesn't mean we can afford to waste another 3
days just for process' sake.
Don
On 7/28/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/23/07, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
In the interest of time, I would like to declare a quality grade on
Struts 2.0.9 AS SOON AS we have received three binding votes toward
one of the grades, and NOT WAIT the usual 72 hours!
</snip>
I only just saw this - so basically this vote was effectively
concluded 52minutes after the test build was announced and vote called
(since thats when the 3rd +1 binding vote was received).
I am -1 to holding votes in this way (i.e. as soon as I get 3 +1s) and
I am -1 to one person arbiatrily changing the usual procedure on the
fly at the point a vote is called. IMO all votes should be for a fixed
period of time (usually 72 hours). In this case I don't see why the
PMC could not have been consulted about reducing the period of time on
this vote - since AFAIK this issue has been ongoing for more than a
couple of weeks.
Niall
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