Phil Steitz wrote on Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 22:32:24 -0500: > On 2/5/11 4:16 PM, Scott O'Bryan wrote: > > Bertrand, > > > > I agree. The good thing about a vibrant community is that they > > generally enforce this. All I'm saying is this shouldn't be a "must" > > requirement, rather it should be a shall and we can let the individual > > communities work out what exceptions they allow. > +1 - but so the whole community can follow what is going on, it is > best to be open about what the "exceptions" can be and also to > include end dates in posts that kick off VOTEs. > > Phil > > On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Scott O'Bryan <darkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> ...I think it's important to keep things flexible because, as much as we > >>> would like everything to fit the same rules, some communities need to > >>> be a bit more dynamic and we need to trust the project PMC's and > >>> members to do what's best for the project and community. > >>> > >>> 72 hours is a good suggestion, but it shouldn't be mandatory... > >> A PMC that consistently uses voting periods shorter than 72 hours > >> would disempower people who cannot check the project lists every day. > >> > >> So I think 72 hour must be the rule, though exceptions are ok as you > >> mention. > >>
The rule ought to be that the vote is long enough to let everyone interested vote before closing of polls. But at Subversion we never had long discussions about a holy Seventy Two Hours boundary... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
