Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34773 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49307 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jan 2008 01:59:05 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49292 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2008 01:59:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jan 2008 01:59:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:21532] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2B/AA-05112-8E1CA874 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:59:05 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:59:02 +0200 Received: from [192.168.17.33] ([192.168.17.33]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:58:58 -0800 Message-ID: <478AC1E2.7040106@zend.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:58:58 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre CC: Lukas Kahwe Smith , PHP Developers Mailing List References: <478AB57E.9020902@zend.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jan 2008 01:58:58.0892 (UTC) FILETIME=[06F1F8C0:01C85651] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] voting From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) >> Voting to achieve what? > > Fair decisions in a simpler, effective and right manner (and not > discutable, ideally). I do not consider "fairness", whatever that could mean, having anything to do with technical decisions regarding PHP, neither I think counting votes is the process that allows to arrive to a decision best for PHP. I personally know very little about some areas of PHP code, and it make little sense that my vote would carry the same weight as opinion of the person that wrote and maintains the code. There's nothing in arithmetic majority of people that makes any decision better, more effective, more right and not disputable. Thousands of people can be wrong as easy as one person can be, and one person can be as right as a thousand. Also, vast majority of PHP users never read this list and would know nothing of any votes held or announced here, so representing that as a poll reflecting opinion of a millions-wide PHP community makes no sense whatsoever. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com