On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Justin Erenkrantz <jus...@erenkrantz.com> wrote: > IMO, we should follow most other (all?) ASF projects - you need 3 +1s for > release regardless of platform. The fact that we require 3 +1s just for > Windows is very odd - we don't require 3 +1s for Mac and 3 +1s for RHEL and > 3 +1s for Ubuntu, etc. -- justin
The ASF rule is just at least 3 +1s. There's nothing wrong with having more. I think it'd be a mistake to drop the requirement for some Windows testing. stefan2 was making the argument to me on Monday that 3 votes for Unix and Windows over represents Windows since as you also point out we're not requiring votes for all the various Unix platforms. I think the counter to this is that Windows has a completely different build system and a vastly different tool chain. While there is some variation in tool chains on Unix there is a large amount of commonality. Windows is just an entirely different beast. We've also got a rather significant user base using at least the client on Windows. Even if many of them are using a client like TSVN instead of the command line client directly. Given stefan2's argument I don't think it's unreasonable to lower the Windows votes, but I think removing them entirely is probably going too far.
