Bill Barker wrote:
"William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Whoa :) I don't see a vote thread?
alpha, beta, gamma, gold, it doesn't matter... any "tarball release" from
the
Apache Software Foundation must be preceeded by a vote. <snip long
explanation>
Long established practice in Tomcat-land: The 5.5.17 release is currently
nothing but a tarball (and, so we call it Alpha). Yoav will probably call a
vote later in the week, or next. At that point it will get a GA/Beta/Still
Alpha rating.
Aye I understand that - I'm stating it's not valid at the ASF to push something
at Announce@ anylist until dev@ makes a (initial) decision, e.g. you could do
the first vote for alpha, second vote for beta, third vote for GA, or ballot all
three choices (choosing the 'best' rating with 3 +1 and more + than -, or what
have you). How you vote is up to the project. Not voting isn't a choice within
the foundation. Essentially, the RM personally hangs their ass out to dry by
posting such an announcement, because the ASF protection ("It's -our- code, not
a specific individuals - yell at -us-, we'll duke it out in court etc") only
kicks in once the voting process is followed.
Bill
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