otc-policies: Add 'Voting Procedure' section

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/web/pull/198)

diff --git a/policies/omc-bylaws.html b/policies/omc-bylaws.html
index 88704a83cf33332cc29c65097c0522ff3fd4945d..c351999c7976d244b7d1226b2d9d790bbc8f77bf 100644 (file)
--- a/policies/omc-bylaws.html
+++ b/policies/omc-bylaws.html
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
           to vote on and participate in discussions. They retain access to OMC
           internal resources.</p>
 
-          <h4><a name="voting">OMC Voting Procedures</a></h4>
+          <h4><a name="omc-voting">OMC Voting Procedures</a></h4>
 
           <p>A vote to change these bylaws will pass if it obtains an in favour
           vote by more than two thirds of the active OMC members and less than
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
           to vote on and participate in discussions. They retain access to OTC
           internal resources.</p>
 
-          <h4><a name="voting">OTC Voting Procedures</a></h4>
+          <h4><a name="otc-voting">OTC Voting Procedures</a></h4>
 
           <p>A vote will pass if it has had a vote registered from
           a majority of active OTC members and has had more votes registered in
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
           <p>All votes and their outcomes should be recorded and available to
           all OTC and OMC members.</p>
 
-          <h4><a name="transparency">OTC Transparency</a></h4>
+          <h4><a name="otc-transparency">OTC Transparency</a></h4>
           <p>
           The majority of the activity of the OTC will take place in public.
           Non-public discussions or votes shall only occur for issues such as:

diff --git a/policies/otc-policies.html b/policies/otc-policies.html
index e68727cdb3cfd3e877864e4b72f115dc47a05378..b773882fb9cc98e4cae9a138c755504793a95148 100644 (file)
--- a/policies/otc-policies.html
+++ b/policies/otc-policies.html
@@ -23,6 +23,24 @@
           by the OTC in accordance with the <a href="omc-bylaws.html">project bylaws</a>
           and the requirements specified by the OMC.</p>
 
+          <h3><a name="voting-procedure">Voting Procedure</a></h3>
+
+          The following regulations complement the
+          <a href="omc-bylaws.html#otc-voting">OTC Voting Procedures</a>
+          stated in the project bylaws:
+
+          <p>The proposer of a vote is ultimately responsible for updating the
+          <a href="https://git.openssl.org/?p=otc.git;f=votes.txt;hb=HEAD">votes.txt</a>
+          file in the <a href="https://git.openssl.org/?p=otc.git">OTC Git repository</a>.
+          Outside of a face to face meeting, voters MUST reply to the vote email indicating
+          their preference and optionally their reasoning.  Voters MAY update the votes.txt
+          file in addition.</p>
+
+          <p>The proposed vote text SHOULD be raised for discussion before calling the vote.</p>
+
+          <p>Public votes MUST be called on the project list, not the OTC list and the
+          subject MUST begin with “VOTE:”.  Private votes MUST be called on the
+          OTC list with “PRIVATE VOTE:” beginning subject.</p>
 
       <h2><a name="update">Update History</a></h2>
       <ul>