Documented voting rules

[John D. Ament]

All,

I was wondering if there was any documentation for how our votes work?

If you look at the 1.1 release thread ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microprofile/7HjTw2jKJS0 ), I see two issues:

1. Heiko Rupp isn't sure if he can vote or not.  Do we have a list of valid voters somewhere?  Or a meaning for a vote from a non-developer?

2. If we vote -1 we're supposed to link to a discussion thread explaining why we voted -1.  The reasoning makes sense considering what's happened in the thread, but I can't find it documented anywhere.

John

[Kevin Sutter]

John,
Fair points.  The voting has been discussed on a recent Google hangout.  It's been documented in our minutes, but it hasn't made it to our wiki yet.  We need to do that.

1)  Only committers' votes count, but we will accept "vote" from anybody.  Very similar to the Apache process.  The list of committers is available via the Eclipse portal:
https://dev.eclipse.org/portal/myfoundation/portal/portal.php

In case you don't have your credentials handy, here's the current list of committers:
Committers
John Ament
Heiko Braun
John Clingan
Mike Croft
Ken Finnigan
Andy Gumbrecht
Emily Jiang
Mark Little
Ondrej Mihalyi
Steve Millidge
Alasdair Nottingham
Ian Robinson
Otavio Santana
Mark Struberg
Kevin Sutter
Martijn Verburg

2)  Again, this needs to be documented.  We wanted a clear separation of [DISCUSS] and [VOTE], since I was getting voting in my Discussion thread (and vice versa).  Thanks for your patience.  We're still growing...

--  Kevin

[Heiko Rupp]

Is "committer" the right term here - as opposed to "person with write/push access to the repos" (I have committed something to MP, which then got pushed by someone to the MP repos), but I get what you mean.

[Ondrej Mihályi]

The word "committer" comes is the Eclipse term and it's equal to the person who has direct access rights to the source repos ;-)

Don't confuse it with git committer. What you understand by a "committer" is probably a "contributor" (again, Eclipse term - contributors have to sign CLA, but don't have to become committers)

--Ondro