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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:10:08 +0300
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To: Chase Peeler <chasepeeler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Den tor. 19. sep. 2019 kl. 20.38 skrev Chase Peeler <chasepeeler@gmail.com>:
> So, in other words, if the majority of core members decide they want to
> force strict typing in PHP 9, and non-core PHP developers voice their
> opposition to such a change, there would be nothing to prevent those core
> members from voting to suspend the non-core members from the list, except
> to hope that such power wouldn't abused?

That is correct. What it seems to me like you are hinting here is that
no Core Developer is listening to the community at large feedback,
which is simply not true.

I do not see the latter part of your question as an issue if you got
nothing to hide. In the time the PHP project has been going, then I
think less than a handful of people have been banned from Internals,
one of them being Reindl who still keeps messaging people off list (as
you most likely remember from some of the previous debates you have
taken part of). So given that track record, along with how the project
philosophy generally is, I  do not see abuse being a problem, even the
sligtest.

If you think that not having a say by not having the right to vote,
then I advise you to contribute by code to earn it like all of us
have.


-- 
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net