rbowen commented on PR #189: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/pull/189#issuecomment-2449779385
I think possibly one of the points of confusion here is the use of the word "consensus", which has been a point of confusion for *years*, since that word has several substantially different uses. Re-reading the discussion here, it appears that I have completely misunderstood the point being made. The notion "consensus" means "universal agreement" is weird to me, and inconsistent with what I have understood for a long time. https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html pretty clearly says that for procedural matters, you need more +1's than -1's. Consensus, as I understand it, means "an opinion reached by the group as a whole", rather than "can be derailed by one disgruntled person who disagrees with everyone else." The notion that on a PMC of 30 or 40 people you need complete agreement by every single person seems like a recipe for a tyranny of one person, which is completely antithetical to what community governance means to me. I can point to three example ASF projects *today*, where a single voice is overriding that of everyone else, and that is *completely broken.* So, yeah, perhaps this needs to go to a larger audience for discussion. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: notifications-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
