Re: PPMC voting new committers

2017-11-06 Thread Hen
Scratching my head as I assumed it was a normal non-tech vote conducted on the PPMC private list, majority wins, must be at least 3 votes. The one 'additional' rule I assumed was that the same must be true of PMC members voting; effectively the PPMC vote needs to include 3 mentor +1s. If a vote con

Re: PPMC voting new committers

2017-11-04 Thread John D. Ament
I'm of the opinion that if there isn't something broken, we should try to change it. Likewise, if there's a process in place that works well for TLP's I'm extremely hesitant to make something incubator specific. At the same time, I've seen the process break the way Craig's described. Coaching on

Re: PPMC voting new committers

2017-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
I'm of two minds on this: on one hand, in the beginning of the incubation process something like this certainly makes sense. Yet, towards the graduation we should really encourage the PPMC to behave more like a TLP PMC. As such they should have an option NOT to follow these somewhat arbitrary rule

Re: PPMC voting new committers

2017-11-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi It sounds good to me. It's a good idea. Regards JB On Nov 3, 2017, 18:34, at 18:34, Craig Russell wrote: >I'd like to see a change in incubator policy w.r.t. voting new >committers. > >While there are no Foundation policies on how to vote new committers, >we do have best practices documented

PPMC voting new committers

2017-11-03 Thread Craig Russell
I'd like to see a change in incubator policy w.r.t. voting new committers. While there are no Foundation policies on how to vote new committers, we do have best practices documented in http://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html that explicitly calls for consensus approval of at least three po