Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 5972 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2002 00:59:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Jan 2002 00:59:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 22143 invoked by uid 97); 10 Jan 2002 00:59:23 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 22132 invoked by uid 97); 10 Jan 2002 00:59:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 17854 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 23:16:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3C3CCFEA.1050705@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:19:06 +0000 From: Paul Hammant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Update to Commons package approval guideline References: <10a001c1995c$a9da9500$c77ba8c0@frmt1.sfba.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N +1 (though I am unsure whether I as yet qualify as a commons committer) Martin Cooper wrote: >The current Commons guidelines require a positive super-majority vote of >active subproject committers before a new package is accepted into Commons. >Given the number of committers in Commons today, I believe that this is no >longer tenable. > >Therefore I propose that we update item #17 of the guidelines to require >majority approval, as defined in the Jakarta guidelines, before a package is >accepted into Commons. The replacement text for item #17 would be as >follows: > >----- >17. New packages may be proposed to the Jakarta Commons mailing list. To be >accepted, a package proposal must receive majority approval of the >subproject committers. Proposals are to identify the rationale for the >package, its scope, its interaction with other packages and products, the >Commons resources, if any, to be created, the initial source from which the >package is to be created, and the initial set of committers. > 1. As stated in the Jakarta guidelines, an action requiring majority >approval must receive at least 3 binding +1 votes and more +1 votes than -1 >votes. >----- > >+1 from me. :-) > >-- >Martin Cooper > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: >For additional commands, e-mail: > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: