> > @Alexander, I don't believe that we can use the "DISCUSS" thread to have > made a decision that we are going to do something. >
We can and we should use DISCUSS threads to make decisions. The only things that actually need votes are releases and new committers/pmc members. Nothing else should need a vote unless we have a very contentious issue where the will of the community is unclear, which doesn't seem to be the case here. See https://community.apache.org/committers/ and https://community.apache.org/committers/decisionMaking.html
