Superceded (in part) by Committer's Zone policy of lazy consenus.
FINERACT Is Currently A Top-Level Project In The Apache Software Foundation.
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- For small changes, the contributor who wishes to propose a change to the process writes a comment on the confluence page describing the desired diff.
- For large changes, the contributor who wishes to propose a change to the process creates a child of the existing page with the new content and marks it at the top as a draft or change proposal.
- The proposer then submits the proposed change to the dev mailing list for consideration.
- Once the proposer believes the discussion has concluded, the proposer adjusts the documentation (if necessary) to reflect the consensus as he or she understands it.
later addition: we have adopted lazy consensus see details on Committer's Zone - The proposer removes drafts and comments the documentation with any major findings still missing there.
- The proposer notifies the rest of the community of any significant changes via the dev mailing list. Insignificant changes require no notification – the proposer should apply his or her own discretion.