On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:35 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Paul! > > I'm writing off list to avoid polluting the thread too much.
I'm writing on list because it's weird that you call this pollution. > Could you please care to explain your negative reaction to this proposal? > > Kind regards, > Benjamin You're asking for useless, no-effort feedback in the form of votes from people who have no actual involvement in the ongoing development or maintenance of the project, so that's what I gave you. That you felt compelled to ask me about it highlights this significant shortcoming of the proposal. > On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 00:27, Paul Crovella <paul.crove...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> -1 >> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:28 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi internals, >> > >> > The heated debate about attribute syntax made me think once again that it >> > would be valuable to get feedback in the form of votes from the community, >> > not just from core developers, on RFCs under discussion. >> > >> > Understandably, the RFC voting process needs to be restricted to carefully >> > selected people, mostly core developers. But the fact is, this process is a >> > bit elitist, and fails to represent the community as a whole. A recent >> > thread <https://externals.io/message/111552> showed that even very active >> > contributors to OSS are unlikely to ever get a vote. >> > >> > A project being nothing without its users, it would be nice to know whether >> > an important change will make them happy or not. >> > >> > Therefore, I have in mind to develop (time permitting) an experimental >> > tool, external to the PHP wiki, that would replicate the voting options of >> > each RFC, but would allow everyone with a GitHub account to vote on the >> > same options as the original RFC. While the vote results would not directly >> > affect the wiki's vote results, I guess that this community feedback could >> > be taken into consideration by wiki voters and help them make an informed >> > decision. >> > >> > To be useful, a link to the community voting site would need to be present >> > in each RFC, ideally some time before the actual voting starts on the wiki. >> > >> > If popular enough, this tool could offer some analysis capabilities, such >> > as "what's the vote results from people having at least 100 commits to the >> > top 1000 packagist projects in the last year?" to help filter out the >> > noise. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > Benjamin -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
