Hi Am 2025-07-23 17:34, schrieb Andreas Heigl:
As you point out, the abstain alone solves a me "problem". Changing the process just for that, seems overkill to me.
Requiring an "Abstain" option in the voting widget is a simple change to the process. It does not require any additional effort from RFC authors, since I'll make sure to add it to the voting widget in the RFC template (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/template) should this RFC pass.
I believe the proposal has sufficient merit on its own and also allows us to collect "hard data" that can be used as part of a discussion for future scope changes, such as an RFC quorum.
I don't believe having an "Abstain" option needs to be tied to larger changes to the process and I am not interested in increasing the scope of this RFC, intentionally leaving those to “Future Scope”. If you don't see the value right now, but don't outright reject the proposal due to being interested in future scope changes building on the proposal, abstaining from the vote would probably be the right decision :-)
Best regards Tim Düsterhus
