On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:34 , Pierre wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008 2:58 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Voting to achieve what?
Fair decisions in a simpler, effective and right manner (and not
discutable, ideally).
I do not consider "fairness", whatever that could mean, having
anything
to do with technical decisions regarding PHP, neither I think
counting
votes is the process that allows to arrive to a decision best for
PHP.
There is many decisions that directly affect what users can do or not.
What I have to use daily or not. I do not need to know perfectly the
portion of the PHP sources to take a wise decision or choise.
It is also a process to use when we fail to find a compromise. I still
strongly believe in our self discipline and control.
We have some decisions that are mostly questions of taste that do not
require specific expertise beyond being a trusted member of the
community. The array syntax question imho is a good example of this.
There are other decisions that should be approached differently. But
the voting has traditionally been used in the project, only figuring
out reliable results was needlessly hard. Because people did not
participate (either because they did not know about the vote, because
they thought that they have expressed their opinion before the person
that tallied up the vote started the tally, because its impossible to
figure out the background of the person voting etc.).
regards,
Lukas
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