Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Dave, On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > ...Would you remove “also” and “only” as “encouraged” and “advisory” are > perfect without those modifiers... Good points, http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html now says *** Binding Votes Who is permitted to vote is, to som

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-19 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Bertrand, Sure. > On Oct 19, 2017, at 3:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> ...Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html?... > > I'd say ASF members own it, and common sense changes are always welcome IMO

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Dave, On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > ...Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html?... I'd say ASF members own it, and common sense changes are always welcome IMO. > ...the following phrase discourages participation... Indeed. I have updated and simplified

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-18 Thread Dave Fisher
The language goes back to at least July 3, 2004. Regards, Dave > On Oct 18, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Joseph Schaefer > wrote: > > Would be more interesting to find out the genesis of that dreck and why it > persisted til now. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Chris Johnson

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-18 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Joe, Sure we should look into svn history. Regards, Dave > On Oct 18, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Joseph Schaefer > wrote: > > Would be more interesting to find out the genesis of that dreck and why it > persisted til now. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Chris Johnson w

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-18 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Would be more interesting to find out the genesis of that dreck and why it persisted til now. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > > Dave - this was constructive, and well thought. I agree. > > CJ >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >>

Re: Foundation Voting

2017-10-18 Thread Chris Johnson
Dave - this was constructive, and well thought. I agree. CJ > On Oct 18, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > Hi - > > Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html? > > A member of the Apache OpenOffice community pointed out that the following > phrase discourages participation:

Foundation Voting

2017-10-18 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - Does Comdev control the page /foundation/voting.html? A member of the Apache OpenOffice community pointed out that the following phrase discourages participation: Who is permitted to vote is, to some extent, a community-specific thing. However, the basic rule is that only PMC members have