[RESULTS] (Was: Re: [VOTE] Amend CouchDB bylaws)

[Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org>]

Messed up the subject. Here are the results.

On 31 July 2014 17:52, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> wrote:
> Final tally is:
>
> Bob: +1 (confirmed)
> Jan: +1 (confirmed)
> Jason: +1 (confirmed)
> Joan: +1 (confirmed)
> Dave: +1 (confirmed)
> Paul: +1
> Benoit: -0.5
>
> I put (confirmed) if the voter confirmed their awareness of the minor
> edit made after voting began. We have five confirmed +1 votes and no
> -1 votes, so the proposal passes. I will bless the draft.
>
> Thanks to everyone who participated.
>
> On 28 July 2014 16:55, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> In a discussion between myself, Joan, and Bob on IRC today, it became
>> clear that there are some major errors that need fixing ASAP.
>>
>> Here's my candidate doc that we are voting on:
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44302814
>>
>> This vote uses majority approval model and expires in 72 hours.
>>
>> Please review and cast your vote.
>>
>> The page history is messy, but here is a list of the changes I made,
>> in order of importance. The last half are a wrap-up of all the
>> outstanding errata.
>>
>> - Dropped "majority approval" approval model, as this allowed blocking
>> -1 votes on non-technical decisions. Confirmed with other major
>> contributors to the bylaws that this did not match our intentions
>>
>> - Updated decision table to use "lazy majority" or "lazy 2/3 majority"
>> instead of "majority approval" as necessary
>>
>> - Clarified that "veto" only applies to -1 votes using RTC
>>
>> - Change our most preferred method of decision making to "Lazy
>> consensus or RTC" per Bob's feedback that we actually have two primary
>> decision making models, one for code and one for everything else
>>
>> - Dropped a redundant sentence about the Chair not being a leader
>>
>> - Changed "RTC Approval & Vetos" to "RTC and Vetos" so anchors work
>>
>> - Fixed internal anchors, and added a few additional ones
>>
>> - Added example about using email TAGS
>>
>> - Tightened up wording about the PMC delegating responsibility
>>
>> - Minor fixes for wording and case
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --
>> Noah Slater
>> https://twitter.com/nslater
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> Noah Slater
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