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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] [PRE-VOTE] Release candidate 0.1
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 01:25:23 +0700
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> On 15 Aug 2015, at 1:11 am, Dennis E. Hamilton =
<dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:
>=20
> With regard to what release votes are supposed to reflect, pre-voting =
makes absolutely no sense to me.  The ballots cast should follow a =
critical review of the *specific* release candidate.=20
>=20
> I have said all I need to say about this.

Maybe voting is not the best term to use for this period. The way I =
understood it was a chance to hammer out last minute issues (like the =
line ending problem I just mentioned) and once the all the issues I=E2=80=99=
ve found have been sorted out, I give my +1.

Keep in mind that release candidates differ slightly from other things =
we normally vote on, because there=E2=80=99s sometimes obvious technical =
problems (code not compiling, tests failing) that are not controversial, =
and are a matter of fixing and issuing a new release candidate.

If you have a suggestion for a less ambiguous term we could use so that =
individuals can express the notion that all the problems they have =
found/care about have now been fixed, I would be happy for us to change =
to using that term instead. What is the typical practice on other ASF =
projects?

=E2=80=94
Dr Peter M. Kelly
pmkelly@apache.org

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