You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to commits@rave.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2011/04/22 22:38:25 UTC
svn commit: r788657 - in /websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs: ./
governance/ governance/lazyConsensus.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Fri Apr 22 20:38:25 2011
New Revision: 788657
Log:
Staging update by buildbot
Added:
websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/
websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/governance/
websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/governance/lazyConsensus.html
Added: websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/governance/lazyConsensus.html
==============================================================================
--- websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/governance/lazyConsensus.html (added)
+++ websites/staging/rave/trunk/content/rave/docs/governance/lazyConsensus.html Fri Apr 22 20:38:25 2011
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+<!--
+
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE- 2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+ <link href="/rave/css/rave.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
+ <title>Lazy Consensus</title>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+</head>
+
+<body>
+ <div id="banner">
+ <img alt="Apache Rave (Incubating)" src="/rave/images/logo.png"/>
+ <h1 class="title">Lazy Consensus</h1>
+ </div>
+
+ <div id="navigation">
+ <h1 id="general">General</h1>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="index.html">About</a></li>
+<li><a href="/projects/rave.html">Incubator page</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">License</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h1 id="documentation">Documentation</h1>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://cwiki.apache.org/">Wiki</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h1 id="community">Community</h1>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="get-involved.html">Get Involved</a></li>
+<li><a href="mailing-lists.html">Mailing Lists</a></li>
+<li><a href="people.html">People</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h1 id="development">Development</h1>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="source.html">Source Code</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/rave">Issue Tracker</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://builds.apache.org/hudson/view/M-R/view/Rave/">Continuous Integration</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h1 id="asf">ASF</h1>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html">Thanks</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html">Become a Sponsor</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/security/">Security</a></li>
+</ul>
+ </div>
+
+ <div id="content">
+ <p>The concept of "Lazy Consensus" is very important in our project. Lazy
+Consensus means that when you are convinced that you know what the community
+would like to see happen you can simply assume that you already have consensus
+and get on with the work. You don't have to insist people discuss and/or
+approve your plan, and you certainly don't need to call a vote to get approval.
+You just assume you have the communities support unless someone says otherwise.</p>
+<p>We have a time machine (Subversion), this means that as long as you commit
+(or submit patches) early and often the community has plenty of opportunity
+to indicate disapproval. If you believe the community will support your action
+you can operate on lazy consensus as long as you are prepared to roll back
+any work should a valid objection is raised.</p>
+<h2 id="avoiding_unnecessary_discussion">Avoiding Unnecessary Discussion</h2>
+<p>The key thing about lazy consensus is that it's easier for people to agree,
+by doing nothing, than it is to object, which requires an
+alternative to be proposed. This has two effects, firstly people are less
+likely to object for the sake of it and secondly it cuts down on the amount
+of unnecessary mail traffic and discussion.</p>
+<p>Lazy consensus means we can avoid waiting for a community based decision
+before proceeding. However, it does require everyone who cares for the health
+of the project to watch what is happening, as it is happening. Objecting too
+far down the road will cause upset, but objecting (or asking for clarification
+of intent) early is likely to be greeted with relief that someone is watching
+and cares.</p>
+<h2 id="silence_is_consent">Silence is consent</h2>
+<p>People may choose to indicate their support for the actions taken with a +1
+mail - quick and easy to read and reassuring for the implementer. However,
+remember, in a lazy consensus world silence is the equivalent to support. This
+can take some time to get used to.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div id="footer">
+ <div class="copyright">
+ <p>
+ Copyright © 2011 The Apache Software Foundation, Licensed under
+ the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.
+ <br />
+ Apache and the Apache feather logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+</body>
+</html>