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To: Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi Joe

2016-11-17 18:18 GMT+01:00 Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>:
> Afternoon internals,
>
> This has been discussed before in various RFC threads, there does seem to
> be some consensus that 50%+1 votes could be harmful.

I still stand by that we should only let active contributors to PHP
vote, while I understand that not everyone votes and there are many
projects within the PHP.net umbrella. I do understand that many from
outside projects wants to contribute and not everyone is great at C or
internals or similar, but it is us that maintain PHP and if everyone
who have a wiki account votes on something they may not understand the
implication of, then it us that sits with it for years to maintain.

By doing that I think we wouldn't need to have a X%+1 for accepting an
RFC, if there are a tie, then there is obviously a dispute among us
core developers and it can be discussed. Kinda what we used to do with
voting on the ML, just by tracking them on the wiki interface.


-- 
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net