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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] abolish narrow margins
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:11 PM Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Things which don't effect the language, but are more of a question of
> > preference - e.g., the decision to name phpng as PHP 6 vs PHP 7 - or for
> > that matter, deciding about a different release cadence.  It's one thing to
>
> That's one of the places where 50% or plurality vote would be
> appropriate - when we have binary (or n-ary) choice for some decision
> that has to be taken. We don't want to end up in an absurd situation of
> not choosing any name or any release date because none of the options
> has 2/3. So in this situation, I think we go with the majority or
> plurality (in case of multiple options) vote.
>
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I think for n-ary votes we need a different system. Only being able to
cast one vote with winner takes all has a lot of downsides.

I'm not sure what distinguishes binary votes that only need >50%. I
don't think as simple as whether or not there is code involved; for
example changing our RFC processes and such should require more
agreement than that.