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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:12:38 +0200
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To: Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Levi Morrison [mailto:morrison.levi@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:04 PM
> To: Zeev Suraski
> Cc: Anthony Ferrara; internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> >> What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC
> >> proposed feature, or on the patch itself?
> >
> > I think it should be exclusively on the concept.  We never vote about
> > code changes anywhere - including when we refactor existing parts.
> > Why would we vote about the implementation here?
> >
> > The concept is the important part, not the implementation.
>
> Implementation can be a HUGE factor in whether I vote yes or no.

Fair enough, it has next to zero effect on mine - unless we're dealing
with something extremely fundamental.  Otherwise, why not put each and
every commit up for a vote?

Zeev