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From: "John D. Ament" <johndament@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 03:22:27 +0000
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Drop the 2013 Alternate Voting Policy
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I've taken a stab at incorporating this sentiment into a new guide I'm
working on, rather than updating the existing release guides.  Explained in
the other email.

Take a look and let me know if you feel I've misstated anything.

John

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:04 PM Stian Soiland-Reyes <stain@apache.org>
wrote:

> On 27 December 2016 at 20:44, Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>
> wrote:
> > I'd rather not sanctify exceptions with a precise list, but rather stop
> at:
> >
> > "During incubation, a podling's release package may not be perfect. It
>
> ...  package may not be fully in compliance with [ASF release
> policy](https://www.apache.org/dev/release.html).
>
> > will be up to mentors and IPMC members
> > to define the appropriate leeway".
>
> ... as long as it is [legal](https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html).
>
>
> +1 to a more abstract text - as long as the podling release is legally
> sound (e.g. does not include material we can't distribute under ASF
> license) we can still permit it, even if it's not according to policy.
>
> However it would be a judgement per podling - if a podling has been
> told for two releases for instance to fix their NOTICE, then a third
> release might be downvoted (not blocked) for that reason. It could
> also happen that an issue is not identified until later - so it's not
> easy to write it down as strict rules - and I think we've the current
> practice is about right. Some "just enough" formalizing of that
> practice, as Roman proposes, will help keep it along those lines also
> for the future.
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
>
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