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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:27:03 +0100
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To: Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>
Cc: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote:

> Afternoon Lester,
>
> >  Is this simply ... Every element of a vote has to achieve 2/3rds?
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> But before you rubbish that idea as ridiculous, think about what it really
> means.
>
> It doesn't mean that people will continue to open a 2/3 vote and then pin a
> list of subsidiary decisions onto the voting stage.
>
> It does mean that the author of the RFC is forced to open a vote with
> clear, simple options, that must be acceptable to a real majority for the
> motion to pass.
>
> The aim here is only to raise standards by changing our criteria for
> acceptance, it's one simple move.
>
> It has side effects for RFC authors, obviously, which they may first view
> as negative, but unarguably has a net positive effect for everyone else.
>
> Cheers
> Joe
>

Wait ... what?

I assumed that this proposal only pertained to primary RFC acceptance
votes, not to secondary votes. I don't see how 2/3 majorities make sense
there. You'd either skew in favor of one option, or you'd end up in a
situation where an RFC is accepted, but one sub-question has not been
resolved (with supermajority) towards either option.

Nikita

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