+1
- robert
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 06:12 PM, Jeffrey Dever wrote:
> The most recent dicsussion of having a commons-vote list had pretty good
> support but the thread died away.
>
> Not having a dedicated place to vote is a continuous problem for
> HttpClient, and would be for any other project that is looking towards
> its own list. When we vote, we have to decide:
>
> 1) to post on the commons-httpclient-dev list where people most
> interested in httpclient hang out (about 130 subscribers)
> 2) post to the commons-dev list where most of the commons committers
> are subscribed
> 3) cross post and risk getting flamed and fragmenting the results to
> make the result difficult to veryify
>
> A dedicated list would completely solve our voting problem.
>
> Recently we have seen a number of poorly formed votes on commons. That
> is just expected in the current framework. The dev list is so casual,
> that it is natural to expect casual votes. A dedicated vote list would
> give us well defined location to look to for examples, not 350 messages
> ago in the archives or somewhere on the website but right there, on the
> list.
>
> I'm not going to propose a vote on this issue myself: I'm just happy
> being the release prime for HttpClient. I'm certainly willing to help,
> but this is somthing that should be driven at a higher level. I would be
> very impressed if someone on the PMC would take up this cause and at
> least present a proposal here that we can vote on and bring this issue to
> a close one way or another.
>
> -jsd
>
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