Hi, On Dec 28, 2007 10:32 PM, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I may not have the time to thoroughly review the release candidates. > What level of confidence do you suggest as a criterion for voting? (In > other words, if I take a brief look, and it looks ok, would you like me to > vote +1, or only vote +1 if I review the release candidate thoroughly?)
There are no strict guidelines on how a (P)PMC member should vote (otherwise we could just automate the process :-). Instead each member is expected to apply whatever technical and procedural quality criteria they think should apply to a release. The release candidate should also be audited for compliance with Apache policies (see [1] and [2]), but the extent of such audit is left to each PMC member to decide. By voting +1 you basically state that you've looked at the candidate and don't see any obvious flaws in it. A -1 vote requires also an explanation of a valid issue in the release candidate. The requirement of three +1 votes for a release guarantees that at least three pairs of eyes have looked a the candidate and found no obvious issues, so on aggregate we can be reasonably sure that the release is OK. Notably a -1 vote on technical issues (like a bug not being fixed or a feature not included in a release) will not veto a release, but a qualified legal or policy issue should be treated as a veto. Some time ago I wrote a release auditing guide for Jackrabbit that you may also find useful, see [3]. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html [3] http://markmail.org/message/zsjhrvgpnd3ouhi5 On Dec 29, 2007 3:09 AM, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The +1 was for the quoted text, that we vote on something that has been > frozen, for the reasons given by others. Please avoid posting unrelated +1s or -1s on vote threads. This is another good reason to scrap and restart all vote threads that become discussions. Optimally, a vote thread only consists of the call to vote, a sequence of votes, and the tallied result. Related discussions are best branched off to separate threads by modifying the subject line (see this message). BR, Jukka Zitting
