Decrease min voting period for electing new Gerrit maintainers
14 calendar days feel like a long time, especially when most
maintainers have already voted immediately. We chose 14 calendar days so
that maintainers that are out for a week still have enough time to see
the proposal and vote. 10 calendar days should be also sufficient for
this.
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
Change-Id: I96c6e02ba494af6e562abc3516ff69b575338bf5
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-roles.txt b/Documentation/dev-roles.txt
index 2ca7f22..cecaedc 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-roles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dev-roles.txt
@@ -213,10 +213,10 @@
[[maintainer-election]]
Maintainers can nominate new maintainers by posting a nomination on the
non-public maintainers mailing list. Nominations should stay open for
-at least 14 calendar days so that all maintainers have a chance to
+at least 10 calendar days so that all maintainers have a chance to
vote. To be approved as maintainer a minimum of 5 positive votes and no
negative votes is required. This means if 5 positive votes without
-negative votes have been reached and 14 calendar days have passed, any
+negative votes have been reached and 10 calendar days have passed, any
maintainer can close the vote and welcome the new maintainer. Extending
the voting period during holiday season or if there are not enough
votes is possible, but the voting period should not exceed 1 month. If
