Hi Yves, See the section 'Binding Votes' on http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html for some clear text on that.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Yves S. Garret <[email protected]> wrote: > What does binding mean? > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Giridharan Kesavan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> -Giri >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Robert Evans <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > As per Aaron's request I am starting a new voting thread to make it >> > obvious that there is a vote happening. >> > >> > I propose that we change the term "lazy consensus" to "consensus >> approval" >> > (aka s/lazy\s+consensus/consensus approval/gi) in the bylaws so that it >> > matches the terms used in the apache foundation glossary. No actual >> change >> > to our voting would take place, just the term we use to describe that >> > voting. >> > >> > As per the by-laws this would take a "lazy majority" of active PMC >> members >> > (although others are encouraged to speak up). >> > >> > Lazy Majority - A lazy majority vote requires 3 binding +1 votes and more >> > binding +1 votes than -1 votes. >> > >> > Voting lasts 7 days, so it closes Monday April 1st (But this is not a >> > joke). >> > >> > I am +1 (binding) >> > >> > --Bobby >> > >> -- Harsh J
