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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 :-)}