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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:26:52 +0200
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net>
Cc: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@gmail.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Abolish Narrow Margins
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:28 PM Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> wrote:
>
> Secondly - the threshold and voting eligibility are not, in any way,
> independent.  They're two fundamental aspects of the same topic - how votes
> take place.  A 2/3 majority out of a subset of ~200-300 people is very
> different from a 2/3 majority out of a potential group of several thousand
> people
>

Does that really matter though? Your own proposal includes the 2/3
rule and I don't think you're saying 50%+1 is OK now, so what
difference does it make?
I don't see a reason why this RFC, which looks almost like just a
formality, should be bundled with something way bigger and
controversial.

Cheers,
Andrey.