On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > While we're on the subject of changing the supported release > process, we could use this opportunity to lower the number of > signatures required for a release. > > While we never failed to meet the current requirements eventually, > our release process could be faster if less signatures were required. > > My suggestion would be: > > ASF guidelines require a minimum of signatures from 3 different people > in total (including the release manager). To this, we could add our > requirement of cross-platform signatures, where at least one signature > must count for a Windows system, and at least one must count for a > Unix-like system. Of course, more than 3 signatures are always welcome. > > We could also reserve an option for the RM to decide to publish a > release with 3 signatures for any platforms, based on the RM's > judgement of the situation (e.g. if a patch release only contained > code changes inside #ifdef WIN32, Unix signatures could be skipped). > > I believe this change would help us with meeting the new 6 months schedule. > > > I see *no* need to change our patch backport voting rules, by the way.
+1 -- Johan
