Hi. This proposal is identical to the 2 earlier proposals, which failed to get enough votes.
This change in the bylaws [2] requires 2/3 vote +1 of the PMC members. VOTE runs until 15 march 2014, and can be extended if deemed necessary. Vote +1 if you agree to to following - 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 tol...@labs.apache.org within the lazy consensus period (72hours), the lab request is accepted. from/replacing - 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). Reasoning: 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>. Due a lazy consensus decision among PMC, earlier +1 votes are considered valid (of course a change in vote is fully acceptable): Danny Angus +1 Geir Magnusson Jr +1 J Aaron Farr +1 Niall Pemberton +1 Santiago Gala +1 Simone Gianny +1 Simone Tripodi +1 Tim Williams +1 We need binding votes from: Erik Abele Gregor Rothfuss Jan Iversen Noel J. Bergman Graham Leggett Reinhard Poetz Garrett Rooney Scott Sanders Sander Temme How we manage to succeed this time. rgds jan I
