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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:26:51 -0700
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To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Community vote on RFCs
From: paul.crovella@gmail.com (Paul Crovella)

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:28 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi internals,
>
> The heated debate about attribute syntax made me think once again that it
> would be valuable to get feedback in the form of votes from the community,
> not just from core developers, on RFCs under discussion.
>
> Understandably, the RFC voting process needs to be restricted to carefully
> selected people, mostly core developers. But the fact is, this process is a
> bit elitist, and fails to represent the community as a whole. A recent
> thread <https://externals.io/message/111552> showed that even very active
> contributors to OSS are unlikely to ever get a vote.
>
> A project being nothing without its users, it would be nice to know whether
> an important change will make them happy or not.
>
> Therefore, I have in mind to develop (time permitting) an experimental
> tool, external to the PHP wiki, that would replicate the voting options of
> each RFC, but would allow everyone with a GitHub account to vote on the
> same options as the original RFC. While the vote results would not directly
> affect the wiki's vote results, I guess that this community feedback could
> be taken into consideration by wiki voters and help them make an informed
> decision.
>
> To be useful, a link to the community voting site would need to be present
> in each RFC, ideally some time before the actual voting starts on the wiki.
>
> If popular enough, this tool could offer some analysis capabilities, such
> as "what's the vote results from people having at least 100 commits to the
> top 1000 packagist projects in the last year?" to help filter out the noise.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kind regards,
> Benjamin