Marvin pointed out that there is another way to do podling releases that the IPMC is experimenting with. Under this process we as PPMC members would have binding votes on releases, provided we also fill out a "Release Manifest", approve that as part of the vote, and get one mentor to approve the manifest:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/release.html http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases The net result is we would need to do a little more paperwork to document our release reviews and in return we only need a single mentor vote, rather than trying to get 3 IPMC votes. A +1 from be for doing this. I'll wait 72 hours and if there are no objections I'll bring this proposal to the incubator general list. Regards, -Rob
