At 04:52 13/3/01 +0100, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>Hi Pete,
>
>Voting is a serious matter. The results of a vote should be crystal clear as
>ultimately it is the vote that allow us to make clear cut choices. The
results
>of a vote should not be tainted with uncertainty.
They are not ;)
>I am being square about this but voting rules are important and +0 and -0
>flavors unnecessarily dilute/muddy the results of a vote.
I am not sure why you think that - I think that they actually clarify the
results ;)
>It seems to me that we (Apache) have a tradition of mixing a call for
>volunteers with a decision making (voting) process. A call for volunteers
for
>a release can be made with a [POLL] and a decision to make a release can be
>made with a [VOTE]. OK, I think I hammered my point for long enough...
More overhead may work for major decisions but for minor decisions it can
get unpalatable. I have seen some votes last for about 3 months - adding
any more overhead would be ludicrous ;) It would be nice perhaps if we had
some support tools to enable us to make decisions like this at Apache
(similar to what was discussed on library-dev with respect to JakartaForge)
but until then I don't want to see more talk - I want to see action ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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