All, I felt this required a separate discussion. The incubator maintains something referred to as the 2013 alternate voting policy. You can find the full details starting here: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases
This policy as far as I can tell has never been used by any podling. In addition, it doesn't align to the ASF's policies of releases. I believe the problem it was trying to solve was getting binding votes on releases which has mostly been fixed (release votes would go on for 20+ days back then). So I was wondering, is this a policy we want to keep around? John
