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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:00:37 +0000
To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>,PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Safe Casting Functions
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 26 November 2014 20:42:26 GMT, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Nov 2014, at 20:39, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>> 
>> I am putting the Safe Casting Functions RFC to a vote.
>> 
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/safe_cast#vote
>> 
>> Voting starts today (2014-11-19) and ends in 10 days’ time
>(2014-11-29).
>
>So far only 15 people have voted, that’s very low for this kind of RFC.
>
>I’m tempted to extend voting for another week. It’s not likely to
>change the outcome, but it would hopefully mean more people vote.

I don't know if it would make a difference here, but I wonder if it would be sensible to add an "abstain" option in votes? That way, someone who has considered an RFC but not formed a strong opinion either way could register that fact. This could even be paired with the notion of a "quorum", i.e. a minimum vote count demonstrating that the outcome of the vote is not the accidental result of "missing" votes, say because several people happened to be on holiday or busy.

Just a thought.
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]