On 9 November 2013 12:17, Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Is there such a concept as "Lazy Majority" ?
> Yes many Apache projects define it (eg Ant, Kafka, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and others ) as
does Apache HTTP. [1]
> "Lazy majority decides each issue in the release plan."
The phrase is used, but it is not defined anywhere that I could find,
so it is either a typo for something else or it is meaningless.
In both cases the document needs to be tidied up and clarified.
> Different projects however use different terms, as far as I can see "Lazy Majority"
is used more than " "Majority Approval" but both have the same rules, ie 3 +1s and more +1's
than -1's.
>
> My guess is that "Lazy Majority" is used because Majority implies more than 50% of possible
voters need to vote.
My guess is that it is a misprint for Lazy Consensus.
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1. http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html
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