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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Should we rethink the 50%+1 requirement
 fornon-"language changes"?
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi Jakub,

Jakub Zelenka wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2016 17:35, "Andrea Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The vote on the OpenSSL AEAD RFC[1] has made me question our current RFC
> process again. Under the Voting RFC[2], "Language changes" (in practice,
> changes to syntax and semantics) require at least a 2/3 majority to pass
> when they come to a vote, whereas changes that don't fall under that
> category require a mere plurality of more Yes votes than No votes, aka
> "50%+1".
>>
>
> FYI the OpenSSL AEAD RFC passed 2/3 majority so not sure why it made you
> question our RFC process... :)
>

I went and checked again, and it didn't pass by 2/3. It got 7 votes in 
favour and 4 against. To have passed by 2/3, the number of Yes votes 
would need to be at least double the number of No votes, but the vote 
totals didn't meet that. 7:4 is 63.6%, less than 66.6%.

-- 
Andrea Faulds
https://ajf.me/