[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Introduce Emeritus Committer status.

[Russell Bryant]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:25:57PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>> >     2. Do we need a vote of the committers to approve this change?  I
>> >        think that I would be more comfortable if we did have one.
>>
>> Yes, I think that would be best.
>>
>> Shall we record the vote as a set of acks on the patch?
>
> I think that would be harmless in this case, but I believe that it would
> set a bad precedent.  We do not use a secret voting system among the
> committers but we have never (as far as I know) released the details of
> a vote result to a wider community.  So I'd prefer, slightly, to do the
> vote on the committers list in the usual way.

OK, sure.  I didn't think about it enough since votes don't happen
often.  I didn't mean to stray from the norm.

-- 
Russell Bryant