Jeremias Maerki schrieb: [..]
> I was approached off-line and made aware of a mistake I made with this > statement. I'd like to correct myself: > > I fully agree that prior to a committer vote a discussion should be held > inside the PMC to avoid any very negative effects of a premature vote. > However, the person who wrote to me quite correctly pointed out that the > committers of a subproject who are not on the PMC would effectively > lose their voting rights in this area, were the committer vote to be > held in the PMC. And I thought committers are voted by the PMC. Oh well ... [..] > So what does this mean for the topic at hand? I think it means that we > should still consider holding the committer votes on the public dev list > but only after the PMC has decided that it's good idea to hold the vote. > Any justified -1 on such a vote by a non-PMC-member will not be > overruled as they probably have valid concerns. But in the favor of the > project and especially of the person who is voted on such vetoes should > be confided to the private PMC list before bringing them to the public. But it would still cause a public veto (or would the vote be cancelled?) -- Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
