On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Leszek Gawron wrote:
Reinhard Poetz wrote:
As the chair of this project I should probably know it better but I wonder whether we have a project policy that contains guidelines about vote resulting.Looks like you're right. Consensus means 100% agreed to the proposition.
Does the -1 of Jörg mean that the Java 5 proposal is rejected?
Traditionally, consensus is not synonymous w/ unanimity.
(Unless, of course, this terms has some kind of special meaning local to ASF history/culture... I presume that it does not).
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
...and in particular,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#If_consensus_is_not_unanimous.2C_who_must_agree.3F
Also, I would expect that if the ASF meant for a negative vote to have veto power, they would have said so explicitly.
Cheers,
—ml—
