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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:13:02 +0000
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

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Afternoon Nikita,

My mistake, changing that ...

Cheers
Joe

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>
> 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.
>>
>> Please read the (brief) RFC and raise objections here.
>>
>> There will be a one week discussion period for this RFC.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Joe
>>
>
> A technical note: The existing supermajority requirement is >= 2/3, not >=
> 2/3+1. I think that should stay the same.
>
> Apart from that, I totally agree that everything should take a 2/3
> majority. It simplifies the rules and avoids the common and very pointless
> discussion about what exactly constitutes a "language change". I have the
> vague impression that this issue has come up on pretty much every major
> RFC (like phpng -- Is it really a language change if it's just internals?
> Similar for int size changes. Similar for PHP 6 vs 7, etc.)
>
> Nikita
>
>

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