> I presume that's every PMC vote that was on a public list? Rather than > every PMC vote? Seems that it would largely be a history of release > discussions.
It's even more important to log the *outcome* of the occaisonal PMC-list votes because they are not public. The discussions are sensitive, but the tally of the vote should not be. We want our process to be as transparent as possible (since this is how we teach developers to become committers). > What are advantages are you finding of recording that? Again, > nitpicking rather than being against the idea, seems better just to > put in a link to the RESULT email in mail-archives. Only one I can > think of is that it helps to maintain the dynamic charter of a project > - as with all docs, the real charter gets set in stone and becomes > untouchable. Posting the tally in the STATUS file can serve as the RESULT email. The change to the STATUS goes out over the list, so everyone sees it. Now two goals are accomplished with one action. We have closure on the vote, and we have a summary of the votes for future reference. -Ted.
