7-day ballots starting tonight

[David Keaton <dmk@dmk.com>]

     Shortly, you will be notified of 15 ballots on design changes and 
change drafts, from March 29th, 6pm PDT, to April 5th, 6pm PDT.  Here is 
what you can expect.

*  Next Wednesday, we will have our scheduled meeting.  The ballot 
period will still be ongoing during the meeting.  That will be your 
chance for a higher bandwidth discussion on any issues you would like 
clarified before you submit your final vote.

*  One of the ballots is for a simple rename.  The rest are for change 
drafts (and the design changes implied by them).  The change drafts are 
provided as attachments to the ballots.

*  These ballots will not affect your voting privileges.  However, to 
get an accurate picture of where we stand, I would like to encourage 
everyone to vote on each ballot.  For each issue, you can vote Yes, No, 
or Abstain.

*  The official text of the simple rename is in the OASIS system, and 
the official text of the change draft ballots is the change drafts 
attached to those ballots.  Additional information for each ballot is 
available in the associated github issues whose links appear in the ballot.

*  In addition to voting on each issue, you can ask questions or submit 
comments on it.  If you do so, please do it in the github issues whose 
links appear in the ballot descriptions.

*  You can change your vote any time during the 7-day ballot period.

*  At any time during the ballot period, you can go look at the ballots 
on the OASIS site.  First, log in to www.oasis-open.org, and then go to 
Groups -> My Groups -> OASIS Static Analysis Results Interchange Format 
(SARIF) TC -> Ballots.

*  On the OASIS site, you can see who has voted so far and how they have 
voted, and can record or change your own vote.

					David