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Consensus

Consensus requires 3 binding +1 votes and no binding vetoes.

Lazy Majority

A lazy majority vote requires 3 binding +1 votes and more binding +1 votes than -1 votes.

Lazy Approval

An action with lazy approval is implicitly allowed unless a -1 vote is received, at which time, depending on the type of action, either lazy majority or consensus approval must be obtained.

2/3 Majority

Some actions require a 2/3 majority of active committers or PMC members to pass. Such actions typically affect the foundation of the project (e.g. adopting a new codebase). The higher threshold is designed to ensure such changes are strongly supported. To pass this vote requires at least 2/3 of binding vote holders to vote +1.

In order to address the case of insufficient active binding voters to reach 2/3 majority, one can follow the process below to exclude a binding vote from the counting of this particular voting thread. 

1. Wait until the minimum length of the voting passes.
2. Publicly reach out via personal email to the remaining binding voters in the voting mail thread for at least 2 attempts with at least 7 days between two attempts.
3. If the binding voter being contacted still failed to respond after all the attempts, the binding voter will be considered as inactive for the purpose of this particular voting.