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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
> >
> > On 20 Jul 2014, at 00:26, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> >
> > > The poll is now open: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6#vote
> > >
> > > Voting shall end in a week=E2=80=99s time on 2014-07-27.
> >
> > I=E2=80=99ve cancelled the vote because I don=E2=80=99t think the case =
for 6 is
> > sufficiently fleshed out. The RFC is now massively imbalanced in
> > favour of 7, which isn=E2=80=99t really fair to the 6 side, and I don=
=E2=80=99t think
> > we can hold a vote while that=E2=80=99s still the case.
> >
> > Unfortunately I=E2=80=99m not terribly good at making such a case, so h=
elp in
> > developing the 6 side would be appreciated. I won=E2=80=99t reopen the =
vote
> > until the 6 side is sufficiently developed.
>
> Huh what? This is like you weren't happy with the way how the vote was
> going so you cancelled it? What nonsense.
>

After the vote has been started the RFC was edited by Zeev in order to
strengthen the case for PHP 7. There is nothing wrong with that, adding
additional arguments to an RFC is perfectly fine by me.

However at the same time a number of paragraphs were removed that were
arguing for PHP 6, at least in part. The only thing that was left in "The
case for PHP 6" was a single paragraph, of which half was really just an
explanation of the general situation.

Effectively the edits made the RFC text heavily biased. It's okay to edit
an RFC to add arguments for your side, but I find it discourteous and
disingenuous to remove arguments from the opposing side at the same time.

As such I can understand Andrea's decision to close this vote until tempers
had time to cool down and both sides had a chance to be fairly represented.

Nikita

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