Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:90736 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7788 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2016 20:34:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 2016 20:34:49 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 90.212.141.145 unknown Received: from [90.212.141.145] ([90.212.141.145:10599] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F8/F2-22511-86FEF965 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:34:48 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <0F597D10-C2D6-4603-A73A-8EE1806B95E1@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:34:45 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0F597D10-C2D6-4603-A73A-8EE1806B95E1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 90.212.141.145 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Re-proposed] Adopt Code of Conduct From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi Paul, Paul M. Jones wrote: > >> On Jan 20, 2016, at 13:04, Derick Rethans wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've decided to re-propose the CoC RFC. > > Is it a violation of the RFC rules to skip step 1 ("Email internals@lists.php.net to measure reaction to your intended proposal") and go straight to step 3 ("Create the RFC") ? > > > > At the very least, it seems like an initial email needs to be sent before putting the RFC on the wiki. The howto isn't really a set of rules, more guidelines on how to do an RFC. The actual hard rules as such are contained in the voting and release process RFCs, among others. It's not uncommon for people to propose RFCs without a prior mailing list dicussion. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/