On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > The RC7 vote is a little confusing. Since there are a number of other > projects that are interested in the ODF Toolkit, we cc'ed them all in > the vote thread, along with this list and the Incubator general list. > That, coupled with this being our first release, has lead to a "messy" > voting thread. For example: > > 1) We have a +1 from Yegor, but that made it only to the Tika dev list > > http://markmail.org/message/4syron6anolleqlk > > 2) We have several +1's from PPMC members here on odf-dev > > 3) We have one +1 from a PPMC member to odf-private > > 4) We have no +1's from IPMC members on this list or on the Incubator > general list :-(
Yegor is on the IPMC. Mentors must be on the IPMC. He did not state that his vote was "binding" - but I *think* that is implicit. BTW - I've just been elected to the IPMC to be a Mentor for Apache Flex. > > My guess is the cc'ing to multiple lists may have caused some confusion. It certainly did. > > What is the best practice here? Send to only to general@incubator and > cc odf-dev? Should we be posting our (non-binding) votes and test > summaries to general@incubator rather than odf-dev? What I've seen is that the vote occurs on the project's dev list first. Then a vote - results email on odf-dev. Then an IPMC vote on [email protected]. In the future if we want to tell other projects about our votes let's make that a separate email. IMO a subject like "[FYI] Voting on a release candidate for ODFToolkit" would be helpful and clearly not the [VOTE] thread. Everyone has different filter rules on their mail and are on more than one project. Mine came into poi-dev, I guess Yegor has Tika before Poi and ODF on his filter list. Let this be a lesson learned about cross posting.a VOTE thread. > Any ideas on how to get this vote back on track? Put the results together in a [VOTE][RESULTS] email for odf-dev. Then send a [VOTE] thread for the IPMC votes to [email protected]. Here's an example from ManifoldCF: > Hello Incubator IPMC, > > Please vote on whether or not to release ManifoldCF 0.4-incubating, > RC2. This RC has passed our podling vote and awaits your inspection. > You can find the artifact at > http://people.apache.org/~kwright/apache-manifoldcf-0.4-incubating, or > in svn at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/tags/release-0.4-incubating-RC2. > Thanks in advance! > > Karl Wait for the IPMC to vote - theirs are the binding votes. If they don't like how the vote was run then they'll certainly let us know. If you are not subscribed now to [email protected] you ought to be during the vote. Does this make sense? Let's turn in our homework even if it is not perfect ;-) Regards, Dave, who has a execstackoverflow in a postscript file to debug plus a work release to do in the next couple of days or I would have done more research on this question. > > -Rob
