- Voting process
Generally casting a vote can be done with +1/ -1 (http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html), pressing the vote button Voting this issue in jira page is preferred as it can be tracked and monitored.
- Svn trunk is frozen before a new version is released
Procedure in releasing a new version usually takes time before it passes the voting. And before passing the voting process, rollback is possible; therefore, it is important to keep svn trunk clean.