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Core's Voting Procedures
Committers
- All core members vote "yes", "no" or "no objection".
- Successful candidates must get at least one yes vote.
- Successful candidates must not get any 'no' votes.
- At least three people must vote.
- Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
result is certain.
- Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
etc.
Personnel
- All core members vote "yes" or "no".
- Successful candidates must get at least (2/3 * core-size)
yes vote.
- At least (2/3 * core-size) people must vote, or the measure
will fail.
- Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
result is certain.
- Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
etc.
Issues
- Discussion takes place.
- When a consensus resolution appears to have been reached,
a vote on that takes place.
- All core members vote "yes" or "no".
- Successful resolutions must get at least (2/3 * core-size)
yes vote.
- At least (2/3 * core-size) people must vote, or the measure
will fail.
- Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
result is certain.
- Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
etc.
Unanimous Consent
- - Any core member be get unanimous consent of core to do
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- Any core member may get Unanimous Consent of core to do
something.
- This person shall send mail to core asking for unanimous
consent.
- If no one objects within 48 hours, then core has approved it
(or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members say yes).
- If there are any objections, then it will be resolved via the
issue voting procedure.
Any committer may get unanimous consent of core to do something so
long as at least one core member says 'yes' and the previous paragraph
is otherwise followed.
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+ Unanimous Consent is a specific term used by the US Senate
+ to mean 'without objection' and is used instead of a formal vote
+ for routine matters.
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