On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > But again, objections must be from committers, backed with > technical arguments and the willingness to implement alternatives.
The Apache voting policy page you linked agrees that binding votes are from committers, and that "all others are either discouraged from voting (to keep the noise down) or else have their votes considered of an indicative or advisory nature only." But some things may require noise. I for one am essentially lurking here as a user, watching the progress of the product on its way to becoming once again current and viable. I'm technical, but have never touched the guts of OOo. So if you bring up a change, presented as a lazy-concensus proposal, and I think it would adversely affect my experience as a user, I'd very much like to be able to object, even if my objection is non-binding. I can't stop you, but on the other hand I'd rather you not stop me. Don
