Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77460 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41780 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2014 12:10:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Sep 2014 12:10:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:33294] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 89/12-31799-6A110245 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:10:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DE7B00093; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:10:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id YalH8qstZ4g9; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:10:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oa-res-27-90.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-27-90.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.27.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 21436B0007B; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:10:10 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:10:09 +0100 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <8DEFB90E-0F7F-4876-890D-D4AD1C655D87@ajf.me> To: Derick Rethans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is it fair that people with no karma can vote on RFCs? From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 22 Sep 2014, at 12:32, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote: >=20 >> Perhaps I=92m being unfair and overthinking things, but I wonder if = it=20 >> is really fair for people who have no karma, i.e. not contributors to=20= >> the documentation, extensions, php-src or anything else, to have the=20= >> ability to vote on RFCs? >>=20 >> I=92d never suggest people without internals karma can=92t vote. I = think=20 >> doc and peck contributors are as valued as any other contributors.=20 >> However, people with no karma whatsoever (a blank people.php.net = page)=20 >> voting irks me. >=20 > I think people's votes should only count if they have karma to the=20 > section of the code that the RFC/feature/whatever relates to. Is that really fair? If we break BC, plenty of userland developers might = be affected and they should have a right to chime in. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/