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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:59:26 +0100
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To: Ronald Chmara <ronabop@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Handling of withdrawn RFCs
From: peter.e.lind@gmail.com (Peter Lind)

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On 21 January 2016 at 21:53, Ronald Chmara <ronabop@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Flyingmana <flyingmana@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > An RFC could still be valuable for the project, even if the original
> > author leaved, so taking it over should be possible. And it should not
> > be painful in any way.
> > Would we need some rules in case multiple people want to take it over,
> > or should we say the first one wins?
> > Is there any way to abuse the taking over of an withdrawn RFC?
>
> Hypothetically:
>
> An RFC being used primarily for ongoing debate/argument/trolling
> purposes could live indefinitely, generating hundreds, or thousands,
> of messages, and changesets/PR's, and list churn, in the name of
> "making sure an issue is adequately discussed and resolved".
>
> Even as individual trolls, marks, and sockpuppets were knocked down,
> new ones could pick up the mantle of "but we're discussing important
> things, here!", and continue the loop, only finally exhausting the
> suite of RFC mechanisms all of the trolls/marks/puppets finally gave
> up, or were someho0w being administratively prohibited from all future
> participation.
>
> Which, if the PHP email lists were an endless trolling/argument/debate
> forum like twitter or reddit, would be completely appropriate.
>
> This is all hypothetical, of course.
>
>
This thread being about withdrawn/re-proposed RFCs, how is that comment
relevant? Seeing as anyone wanting to debate/argument/troll indefinitely
can do so using their own RFC - or, for that matter, without an RFC.

Regards
Peter


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