--- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Matt Benson wrote: > > > Henri, out of sheer curiosity, where is it > documented > > that a commons committer doesn't have a binding > vote? > > The only thing I could find in the charter [1] was > a > > link to the Jakarta guidelines [2], which in turn > > links to a "Decision Making" page [3], which > states > > that "the only binding votes are those cast by a > > Committer" (the next sentence is pretty > interesting as > > well, though unrelated). > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles > > Our Decision Making page is dated in that respect, > probably worth deleting > and making sure that the foundation pages have > something with the > core important parts of it in them.
Since your link was Apache-specific, and my link was Jakarta-specific, my assumption would be that Jakarta trumps the ASF in its grant of a vote to committers rather than PMC only. Ant does this as well; actually some changes are a vote of committers and some are PMC only, the specifics being outlined in the project bylaws. The alternative interpretation is that no project has the right to grant a binding vote beyond the PMC, thereby overruling the ASF guidelines you linked. But this interpretation would indicate a large upheaval: a quick look shows that the ASF "flagship" (HTTP server) grants committers a vote. Gump takes an Ant-like approach (not surprising since Gump's originators had worked on Ant). The XML TLP also says committers have a vote. IMHO it still looks as though Jakarta committers do have a binding vote unless the privilege granted at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html is explicitly rescinded. FWIW, Matt > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
