What Dennis said. There does exist a mechanism for conducting anonymous votes among a specified group of individuals, for the *exceptionally* rare situation where a straight email vote is inappropriate.
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:45:17 -0700: > My impression is that voting is done on the list with +1,0,-1 > tabulation. That is how ballots have happened on the PPMC and it is > how the ballots on the general@incubator are conducted. > > The only case I can foresee off hand that might lead to [VOTE], if > a [DISCUSS] does not demonstrate consensus, might be over the name of > the project, the deliverable, and the domains of web sites once > openoffice.org has transferred to Apache and we know the ASF policy, > legal, and trademark constraints that have to be honored. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexandro > Colorado > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:20 > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dennis E. Hamilton > Subject: Re: Committers and Contributors and PPMC > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:59:37 -0700: > > > It is my impression (based on no experience at all) that when issues > > > come to a vote on the ooo-dev list, PPMC member votes are binding and > > > the votes of other project contributors and observers are not, > > > although I am confident that non-binding votes are given careful > > > attention. > > > > That's correct. Furthermore, voting on technical issues is the very > > rare exception rather than the rule. (Read: almost never happens) > > > > We strongly prefer to operate by consensus. > > > > Is this done through a rudimentary process of +1 on mailing lists or is > there an app to perform quick polling campaings? > > -- > *Alexandro Colorado* > *OpenOffice.org* Español > http://es.openoffice.org >
