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From: Pierre Smits <pierre.smits@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:38:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: Vetoes for New Committers??
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In 2015 I asked a similar quiestion in this same forum. See [1]. I may shed
some light.

[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a4095177b9630643c8957e91b1e1b977b521db170767eb17eccec9f7@1426899898@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Joseph Schaefer <
joe_schaefer@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

> The downside to majority rule when it comes to personnel voting is that it
> can lead to a situation where a company having a majority on the pmc can
> increase their majority by voting in additional employees without the
> minority having any way to provide a check on that exercise of power.  Yes
> this has come up in the past.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > on https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html#new-committer-process
> it
> > describes the process of bringing in a new committer for a "typical
> > project".
> >
> > But in the "Discussion" it speaks of "3 +1 and no vetoes"... Is it really
> > "typical" that projects use vetoes for new committers? I can't recall
> > seeing that anywhere, not saying it is incorrect, but asking whether it
> > really is "typical".
> >
> > Perhaps we should provide links to a handful of well-known project's
> > processes, to both give a template for projects to work with as well as
> > different approaches.
> >
> > Anyone has any opinion on this matter?
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
> > http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
>
>
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