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 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 proceedure.

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.