Hi Bjorn,
I think the goal of the discussion was to initiate and
allow some discussion among the PMC before the vote was carved in
stone.
I could imagine that a PMC voting period of e.g. 3 days
might suffice.
My personal opinion is that I'm ok with any single PMC
member approving on behalf of the whole PMC, but any other PMC should be able to
veto that later on. This might be facilitated by the Portal sending out a note
when PMC vote is requested, another note when a single PMC member has voted,
such that Vetos can also be conducted on the Portal after the
fact.
Cheers, -- Martin Oberhuber Wind River Systems,
Inc. Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
DSDP PMC Members, I noticed the discussion about the portal and
the PMC approving elections. I would like the portal to support the behavior
you'd like, so I/we are willing to change the portal to require full PMC votes
for DSDP _however_ please be careful of what you ask for:
- What if a PMC member is on vacation? Does this delay the approval until
they return to vote?
- Is there a time limit for PMC votes? You'll find that most committer
elections run to the full time limit of a week because at least one
committer doesn't bother to vote, so if you do the same for PMC votes,
you'll be adding another week to each election.
- Etc.
Perhaps what you'd like is "any single PMC member can
approve an election *except* the PMC member who is on the sub-project of the
election?"
And, as to the confusion of titles, we're open to ideas. We
chose the same title for the interface panels because we felt that each of the
panels was about the same thing: the committer election of person X. But if
there's a better idea, let us know (best to submit a
bug against the portal). Note: you can see the whole committer
election workflow here: https://dev.eclipse.org/portal/myfoundation/tests/swim.php?file=finished/committer_election.txt
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Bjorn
Yeah, for some
reason, it only takes one PMC member to approve committer votes on the
portal. Although with the Tools PMC, it’s likely we’d only get one vote
anyway ;).
We should probably
ask the EMO to fix this and allow for real PMC
votes.
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