Normally this kind of things are written down in the bylaws, but I guess a charter is written when
the incubation was succesfull and a Jackrabbit PMC is formed.
A bit of guesswork here and maybe wrong assumptions, but even based on wrong assumptions, it could
be usefull to decide if a vote is usefull.
- One reason to formalise a move from contrib to jackrabbit, is that the code will now end up in the
jackrabbit release itself and when in contrib it wouldn't have.
- Another reason to start a is to point to/alert others that something important is happening and
therefore needs more serious attention, than would have been given to a normal thread (you are just
incubating, but I find vote threads very usefull to be able to track a lot of projects at Apache).
- I am inclinded to start a vote when I want to move or promote something.
- Promoting normally means to make something more important than it was before, so a major event is
happening here. In my opinion it is good practise to have votes on something major (eg like you do
with new committers)
OTOH maybe the jackrabbit project may decide a vote will not be necessary for these kind of events,
but the only way to establish that is to start a vote about that.. Then you already have some nice
content for the bylaws when leaving incubation...
Some more info on this can be found
http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html.
Mvgr,
Martin
Jukka Zitting wrote:
Hi,
On 1/26/06, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shouldn't this be a vote thread or is this just to poll everyones feelings
before the vote ?
Just a poll. Do we need a formal vote for this? In general I'd prefer
to avoid too much formalism as long as general consensus can be
reached through discussion, but I can also see reasons for formalizing
the "promote from contrib" transition. What's the general feeling?
BR,
Jukka Zitting
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