Rule 1

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

On 3/14/12 11:52 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
>
> On 3/14/2012 6:28 AM, Richard Bair wrote:
>>>> One question though : are the committers who are being added to 7u-dev
>>>> as a consequence of the mac port also committers on 8 ?
>>>
>>> We'll have to run separate votes for them on 8.
>>
>> What a pain!
>
> Completely agree here. What's even worse, voting cannot be initiated 
> until the person has 8+ significant contributions to JDK8. This rule 
> makes real sense for most OpenJDK projects, but not for JDK7/7u/8, 
> which are in fact the same project.
Technically, after changes from 7u are merged into 8 every active 
contributor should be eligible for vote as these are not contributions to 8.

But i certainly agree process seem unnecessary heavyweight for such 
scenarios.

-igor
>
> Thanks,
>
> Artem