[WHIRR-451] Add a bylaws page

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 15/Dec/11 08:16
• Updated: 05/Feb/12 21:05

Description

Here is the conversation on the email list that lead to this issue:

Andrei:

Can we move forward and make the release public as soon as we get 3
+1's from PMC?

Patrick:

We've always gone by the 72 hr rule (in whirr and other projects I'm on):
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#glossary-release-manager

However I notice that there's no such mention in the release faq:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#approving-a-release

Although it does talk about it here:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html

I'd suggest we go with the 72 hr rule. Might be a good idea to codify
the rules with explicit bylaws like pig/zk and others have done:
http://zookeeper.apache.org/bylaws.html
(see the bottom of that page)