On Feb 14, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
This is a lazy-consensus approval vote.
Huh? These types of things should require activing
voting, not lazy-consensus. Otherwise the Incubator
is worthless.
I am just quoting from the IP Clearance docs:
Fourth paragraph (if you count the text box as a paragraph), "Note
that only lazy concensus is required."
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
In the case of IP Clearance, another PMC has already voted to accept
the code, and it is supposed to be a crossing of t's and dotting of
i's which is actively managed by a member or officer (per the
template). Presumably we trust a member or officer to not cheat.
Considering the possible legal implications of getting IP wrong, it
may be a good thing to require the formal approval just to force more
eyes to look at things. That said, I hesitate to increase the
incubator workload when the work amounts to covering another PMC's
butt for them :-)
Yours in Waffles,
-Brian
