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Posted to dev@geronimo.apache.org by Greg Stein <gs...@apache.org> on 2003/09/12 02:16:00 UTC

voting duration

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:55:55PM -0000, geronimo-dev-digest-help@incubator.apache.org wrote:
>...
> From: "Jeremy Boynes" <je...@coredevelopers.net>
> Subject: RE: [vote] Process for adding committers
> To: <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:28:50 -0700
> 
> No-one objected and no-one new voted overnight so I'm going to declare we
> decided on Option #2.

No... it isn't right to say "no new voters". It is entirely possible that
people haven't even *seen* the request for a vote yet. We're talking a
world-wide organization here, across every time zone available.

The general rule of thumb is 72 hours, rather than simply waiting for a
steady state.

Cheers,
-g

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