On 19/03/07, Vadim Gritsenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sebb wrote:
> Surely voting on creating a tag (if this is necessary)
Absolutely. Any release tag must be a community decision == vote is required.
> is completely different from voting on a release?
Not to me.
Voting on a release (on a tag) signifies that software is in a state where it
can be released to general public.
Voting on a files (produced from release tag) is a mechanical vote on
correctness of files produced by ant.
AFAIK, the ASF rules are that files must not be released to the
general public without a formal vote by the PMC on the release, which
I take to mean voting on the files which are proposed to be released.
Requiring consensus on tagging seems sensible, but I'm not sure it is required.
The problem here seems to be that it is not possible to use one vote
to do both; therefore it seems to me that the sensible thing to do is
to have two votes.
The first vote (on tagging) seems to me to be something that relates
mainly to committers working on the project.
The second vote has to involve PMC members; others can vote, but their
votes generally do not count (though I guess a -1 would need to be
investigated).
Seems to me that there needs to be formal documentation of the
required and recommended release processes.
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