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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Exceptions in the engine
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> There's nothing that prevents us from reneging on that by another
> vote. If it's a bad decision backed by logical arguments then we can

That's a pretty big if, given that your only argument - that it is a BC
break - is incorrect, as in fact the set of exceptions caught before and
after change is exactly the same, and the only difference is that in the
new code, you can *also* catch errors, the option that you didn't have
before. Absent that argument, there's no reason to renege.

> overturn it. Also note that *barely* passes at 67%. That is hardly a
> landslide conclusion.

We're going the dangerous road here. I agree that decision taken can be
overridden if we find out it was bad decision, and that can - and
eventually will - happen. However, re-opening decision immediately after
it was agreed, without any new facts or anything changes, leads to much
worse outcomes, as with this pattern we will never be able to decide
anything as long as there is at least some small set of people that
disagree. Voting is a means of establishing common goals while having
disagreements, and a means of moving the project forward without being
blocked by each disagreement. I say this as somebody who lost my share
of votes and still disagreeing with some decisions taken, but re-opening
them immediately after taking them is worse.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com