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Action | Who can vote | Approval | Where to vote | Board approval required |
Code change | Committer | Lazy Consensus | public dev or commit list | |
Release | PMC | Majority Approval | public dev list | |
New committer | PMC | Consensus Approval or other documented method4 | private list | |
New PMC member | PMC | Consensus Approval | private list | Yes1 |
Existing committer removal | PMC | Consensus Approval | private list | |
Existing PMC removal | PMC | Consensus Approval | private list | Yes2 |
Change chair | PMC | Consensus Approval | private list | Yes3 |
1 Notice must be given to the board, or if a podling the IPMC.
2 Except for the PMC member in question. Only the board can remove PMC members.
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4 While most projects vote on new committers, it's up to the PPMC to decide how to do it.