-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sebor wrote: > > I thought every committer's vote counted as binding.
Grey-area time here.. In projects where committers == PMC, that's the case. The confusion probably has its origins in the HTTP server project back before there *was* an ASF or PMCs. There were just committers and non-committers. Over time, and I'm sure Roy can/will give history and point to a specific document, but the answer now is that because of the structure and formal/legal incorporated nature of the ASF, only PMCer votes are binding. Projects that treat non-PMCer's votes as binding are mistaken; Roy has the chapter and verse. > I also thought that not every committer was necessarily a PPMC member. Correct, and that's another area of confusion and contention. Some people think that for TLP, committers should == PMC, and for podlings committers should == PPMC. But not everyone feels that way. Personally, I think that if you trust someone to the extent of giving hir direct access to the repositories, you should also trust hir to be part of the PMC (such as having a binding vote, being able to vote on other potential committers, et cetera). To put it another way, s/he has earned merit sufficient to get repository karma. Why should s/he have to earn *more* merit to be on the PMC? And how would that merit be earned? - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQ+uYnZrNPMCpn3XdAQJbMgP+IuZdxKW0P4P4uH7unBIV+ZenJ4xOq8f9 PqcAfEGFmrRbyAHMGKr5XmjUJBs4zleJT3TNGPe1spa1R0liot+CML5wrg+Jw5P3 jchIeBFMMrUxSohblh0kG1ZeebcD7GXIFwn9wbIHk1YyJ5lba6eJ/9cW6h7RMcXY pRxYgMxHfZM= =yin8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
