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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

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Afternoon internals,

    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abolish-narrow-margins

Cheers
Joe

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
wrote:

> On 11/17/2016 12:18 PM, Joe Watkins wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> To what degree, I am not sure.
>>
>> I raise for discussion the topic of abolishing 50%+1 votes, and requiring
>> all changes regardless of their nature to pass by  a super majority of
>> 2/3+1.
>>
>
> For a language tool as critical as PHP it would be better to consider
> a larger sample size such as 75%+1.  However the merit is the issue and
> not the mass vote. IMHO.
>
> Dennis Clarke
>
>
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