From 5631229d44d7a7e4f331585e297253169e255223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 02:03:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note for Core's Voting Procedures.

Drafted by:	imp
Reviewed by:	core
---
 en/internal/Makefile       |  3 +-
 en/internal/core-vote.sgml | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 en/internal/developer.sgml |  4 +-
 3 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 en/internal/core-vote.sgml
diff --git a/en/internal/Makefile b/en/internal/Makefile
index 2749944bdc..4472b57db1 100644
--- a/en/internal/Makefile
+++ b/en/internal/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $FreeBSD: www/en/internal/Makefile,v 1.29 2002/03/06 21:22:10 jim Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: www/en/internal/Makefile,v 1.30 2002/04/06 15:35:30 rwatson Exp $
 
 .if exists(../Makefile.conf)
 .include "../Makefile.conf"
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DOCS+=	bylaws.sgml
 DOCS+=  releng.sgml
 DOCS+=  releng45.sgml
 DOCS+=	expire-bits.sgml
+DOCS+=	core-vote.sgml
 
 INDEXLINK=	internal.html
 
diff --git a/en/internal/core-vote.sgml b/en/internal/core-vote.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6bb4eb6b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en/internal/core-vote.sgml
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
+<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
+<!ENTITY title "Core's Voting Procedures">
+<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
+]>
+
+<html>
+  &header;
+
+  <h2>Core's Voting Procedures</h2>
+
+    <h3>Committers</h3>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>All core members vote "yes", "no" or "no objection".</li>
+      <li>Successful candidates must get at least one yes vote.</li>
+      <li>Successful candidates must not get any 'no' votes.</li>
+      <li>At least three people must vote.</li>
+      <li>Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
+	result is certain.</li>
+      <li>Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
+	etc.</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h3>Personnel</h3>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>All core members vote "yes" or "no".</li>
+      <li>Successful candidates must get at least (2/3 * core-size)
+	yes vote.</li>
+      <li>At least (2/3 * core-size) people must vote, or the measure
+	will fail.</li>
+      <li>Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
+	result is certain.</li>
+      <li>Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
+	etc.</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h3>Issues</h3>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>Discussion takes place.</li>
+      <li>When a consensus resolution appears to have been reached,
+	a vote on that takes place.</li>
+      <li>All core members vote "yes" or "no".</li>
+      <li>Successful resolutions must get at least (2/3 * core-size)
+	yes vote.</li>
+      <li>At least (2/3 * core-size) people must vote, or the measure
+	will fail.</li>
+      <li>Voting period is normally 1 week, or ending sooner when the
+	result is certain.</li>
+      <li>Core secretary to deal with the details of voting, notification,
+	etc.</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h3>Unanimous Consent</h3>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>Any core member be get unanimous consent of core to do
+	something.</li>
+      <li>This person shall send mail to core asking for unanimous
+	consent.</li>
+      <li>If no one objects within 48 hours, then core has approved it
+	(or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members say yes).</li>
+      <li>If there are any objections, then it will be resolved via the
+	issue voting proceedure.</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <p>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.
+    </p>
+
+  &footer;
+
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/en/internal/developer.sgml b/en/internal/developer.sgml
index 6950ce1340..b43bd62a8b 100644
--- a/en/internal/developer.sgml
+++ b/en/internal/developer.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
 <!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
-<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/developer.sgml,v 1.24 2002/04/06 15:41:23 rwatson Exp $">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/developer.sgml,v 1.25 2002/10/05 23:56:11 murray Exp $">
 <!ENTITY title "Resources for FreeBSD Committers">
 <!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
 ]>
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Almost everything a new committer to the FreeBSD Project needs to know
 
 <h2><a href="bylaws.html">Core Bylaws</a></h2>
 
+<h2><a href="core-vote.html">Core's Voting Procedures</a></h2>
+
 <h2><a href="http://wolfram.schneider.org/papers/webbuild.html">
 Build the FreeBSD Web Pages</a></h2>
 
