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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

Pierre Joye wrote:

> However, as of today, you are the blocking point when it comes to
> improve the wiki RFCs, registration and voting areas.And this is
> really becoming a problem. I am not talking about irregularities and
> the likes and I agree that it may not be fair to start bitching about
> one or another vote, especially for some 1st time voters but oldest
> contributors. While I do see an issue with inactive developers
> suddenly jumping in but not using or contributing to PHP in any form
> since quite long. But this is a totally different issues and I really
> have no idea how to solve that, I do not see it as a big issue either
> so...
> 
> However, the RFCs have been abused in many possible ways where I
> thought common sense will make people act fairly and correctly. I was
> wrong. Having simple technical measures to ensure fairness in
> discussions, voting and end of voting periods will prevent some of
> these abuses to happen again. It is possible to achieve that without
> going down a more drastic road (anonymous votes or other more deep
> changes) but will make things work the same way for everyone.
> 
> [...]
>
> Now, to be able to actually implement the little technical measure to
> ensure that everyone follows the same rules, I ask you one more time
> to provide the data of the current wiki so patches, changes etc can be
> implemented in a safer way. You know where to reach me to provide it.
> Thanks for your cooperation.

Whatever you want to improve, please consider that the PHP wiki is
driven by DokuWiki which needs to get updated from time to time (lately
there have been two updates every year[1]; this is not accounting any
necessary updates to DokuWiki plugins).  These updates seem to be
painful already, due to the required customizations.  It would be
helpful if further as well as existing customizations could be moved to
custom DokuWiki plugins as far as feasible.

Furthermore, please note that README.CONFIGURE[2] states:

| There is no data in cvs. The data is only available on the server and
| backup many times daily. If you need sample data using the production
| documents, please contact the php webmaster list.

To avoid potential misunderstandings: I'm rather new to php.net, and I
don't like to get involved into apparently long standing contentions.
Instead I'd prefer to help to maintain the technical base (i.e. the
software -- I'm no sys admin) of the wiki for the sake of PHP.

[1] <http://cmsimpleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8602>
[2] <https://github.com/php/web-wiki/tree/master/docs>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker