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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com> on 1997/07/16 18:52:57 UTC

Re: Clarification for the "voting" description

This seems to be a rather difficult issue to document. I'm not sure 
that any of us would want to be committed to voting on it... :-)


>     It looks like we have at least three modes of voting:
> 
>      1) No voting; freewheeling commit of changes, rollback if problems
>         are encountered.
> 
>      2) "Eager voting," in which every change must garner the requisite
>         quorum of +1s.
> 
>      3) "Lazy voting," during which no objections within a threshold
>         number of days counts as a quorum of +1 votes.
> 
>     (Terms borrowed from RCS.)  During 1.2beta, we were in "eager
>     voting" mode; we're now apparently in "lazy voting" mode (from a
>     message from Roy a couple of weeks ago).
> 
>     Does this match everyone else's understanding?  If so, I'll update
>     the voting.html file appropriately..
> 
>     #ken    :-)}