After a couple of hick ups, I hope this mail comes through. even though its something PMC should discuss on private-labs@ I sent the mail to labs@ due to some mail problems, sorry for that.
rgds jan I. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jan i <j...@apache.org> Date: 16 December 2013 01:10 Subject: [request for Vote] change of bylaws To: priv...@labs.apache.org Hi. Not being PMC (not even labs committer) I can only request a vote, which I hereby do. The charter [1] and homepage [2] for labs says: - Every ASF committer can ask for one or more labs. The creation of the lab requires a PMC lazy consensus vote (at least three +1 and no -1, 72 hours). However the foundations glossary [3] defines lazy consensus today as: *Lazy consensus*(Also called 'lazy approval'.) A decision-making policy which assumes general consent if no responses are posted within a defined period. For example, "I'm going to commit this by lazy consensus if no-one objects within the next three days." Also see Consensus Approval<http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#ConsensusApproval>, Majority Approval <http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#MajorityApproval>, and the description of the voting process <http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html>. I propose the bylaws to be changed as follows: - Every ASF committer can ask for one or more labs. The lab creation requires PMC lazy concensus, if no PMC sends a mail with -1 to l...@apache.org within the lazy consensus period, the lab request is accepted. Change in the bylaws [2] requires 2/3 vote from the PMC members. Voting positively on this will also solve https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LABS-512 As mentioned in my other mail, I strongly believe in labs and would like to help to "rejuvenate" labs and put it back into the central place it belongs. thanks in advance for your time (and vote) rgds jan I. [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2006/board_minutes_2006_11_15.txt [2] http://labs.apache.org/bylaws.html [3] http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html
