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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:23:58 +0100 (BST)
To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE]Call for voting: support use list in
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Stas Malyshev wrote:

> > And this is how democracy works, Stas. If voters don't bother to 
> > turn up, too bad.
> 
> Putting aside the fact that democracy has very little to do with what 
> we're trying to do here (we're not government, we're opensource 
> project), that's how democracy *doesn't work*. As you noticed, it is 
> "too bad", and it is exactly the problem we're having - without 
> participation, votes are decided by a random sample of whoever 
> bothered to appear, often on a single vote.
>
> This is not a way to build consensus.  It is a very unhealthy state of 
> things, and it only contributes to the image of PHP as a project 
> having no direction, no governance and basically existing in a state 
> of brownian motion. I thought we were trying to shed this image.

I very much agree with this. 

cheers,
Derick