Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: ...This is a bit of a mess Yeah - I wish projects would just refer to http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html and http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html and avoid duplicating that information. -Bertrand

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-23 Thread sebb
On 19 November 2013 08:29, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: ... My guess is that Lazy Majority is used because Majority implies more than 50%

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: ... My guess is that Lazy Majority is used because Majority implies more than 50% of possible voters need to vote. My guess is that it is a misprint for Lazy

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-19 Thread David Crossley
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: ... My guess is that Lazy Majority is used because Majority implies more than 50% of possible voters need to vote. My guess

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi David, On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Crossley cross...@apache.org wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...lazy majority is mentioned at http://ant.apache.org/bylaws.html but I didn't know there was such a concept in our projects. Many projects use it. See this Google search:

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-19 Thread Stephen Connolly
well that type of lazy majority is really a majority of binding votes cast with a quorum which differs from majority of binding votes cast, majority of votes cast and quorum (i.e. the needs 3x+1 to release... because remember you cannot veto releases ;-) though only a fool of a release manager

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-15 Thread sebb
On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: Hi, Is there such a concept as Lazy Majority ? Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and others ) as does Apache HTTP. [1] Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan. The phrase

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Every American that has voted for a public office knows that winning the majority has nothing to do with the total population of potential voters. Where I'm from voting is compulsory so it has a different meaning. Thanks, Justin

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-11 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Well I can assure you it’s NOT compulsory at Apache ;-). On Nov 10, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: Hi, Every American that has voted for a public office knows that winning the majority has nothing to do with the total population of potential voters. Where

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Is there such a concept as Lazy Majority ? Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and others ) as does Apache HTTP. [1] Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan. Different projects however use different terms, as far as I can see Lazy Majority

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-10 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Every American that has voted for a public office knows that winning the majority has nothing to do with the total population of potential voters. Let’s not try to rationalize geekdom’s love affair with special purpose terminology- my own pet peeve is what the java world did to the word

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-09 Thread Upayavira
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013, at 07:06 AM, Alex Harui wrote: Hi, Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference between Majority

Re: Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-09 Thread sebb
On 9 November 2013 07:06, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: Hi, Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference between Majority

Majority vs Lazy Majority

2013-11-08 Thread Alex Harui
Hi, Someday I will get back to improving the Voting and Glossary pages, but meanwhile, the Apache Flex PMC is still trying to construct a set of bylaws and we are currently discussing whether there is a difference between Majority Approval which is in the Glossary and Lazy Majority which isn't,