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From: David Nalley <david@gnsa.us>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:10:31 -0500
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Project Bylaws
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Chip Childers
<chip.childers@sungard.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've had some good discussions on the proposed bylaws over the last
> couple of weeks [1], so I'd like to move this forward to a VOTE now.
> Of course, if there are still concerns or discussion points that
> people want to see addressed, we can stop the vote to discuss and edit
> as necessary.
>
> I've made 2 changes from the last draft I sent out.  They are as follows:
>
> * Removed from section 3.4.1 (Technical decisions): "The CloudStack
> community will assume that silence represents consensus on a
> proposal."
> * Added to section 2.3.3 (Committers): "...after approval of the PMC."
>
> I'd like us to assume that committer votes are binding for the initial
> establishment of the bylaws.  If the proposed bylaws are adopted, the
> PMC will have the binding votes for bylaw changes going forward.
> Until that's established though, committer status seems like the right
> way to be inclusive about this process. Of course, any community
> member has the right to share their opinion via non-binding votes (and
> I'd encourage you to do so).
>
> And now, here's what we're voting on:
>
> I'd like to propose that the Apache CloudStack Project Bylaws
> (included at the bottom of this email message) be adopted by the
> community.
>
> Since this is a critical decision for the community, I'll leave this
> vote thread open for at least a week.
>
> [ ] +1  approve
> [ ] +0  no opinion
> [ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)
>
> For sanity in tallying the vote, can committers please be sure to
> indicate "(binding)" with their vote?
>

Sorry for lagging on this issue.

+1 (binding)