On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > >> I’d rather see discussion on the subject than an immediate revert; not that >> I’m against reverting in any way. Let’s make the changes, if we do decide >> to make any, be beneficial. > > I don't think this is how it should work. This is a pretty big change in > voting process, it should be discussed *first*, and only then merged, if > it's agreeable. Going back to the old "first merge, then maybe discuss > if enough people protest" is not a good development. It's not the PHP > source code but the community environment now but it doesn't differ - we > should still do it the right way. I don't see this change as anything > urgent or necessary to be put in immediately, and there are obvious > objections from many people - myself included, btw. So let's please > first back off the controversial change and then discuss it. > >> It had been around for such a long time that I figure any complaints would >> have been raised and addressed between the initial PR [1] and now. Funny > > Nobody looked at this PR or knew it is going to be merged. That's why we > have a process of announcing things and initiating discussion - because > most people don't regularly review all pulls that are pending in all repos.
There also seems to be confusion here as to what exactly the change was, and people arguing one way or the other without actually understanding it. This also seems very true for people that vote in general, which made the patch look like a really good idea: - The author of the RFC can no longer bribe and "convince" individual person to change his/hers vote - Your vote is more meaningful now, as it could actually be the winning vote - First 5 votes one way? No point in voting the other way (or at all) - Last minute twitter "lets all vote yes/no to change the vote around" doesn't work - The "I just wanna be in the winning/loosing team" is difficult Note that all votes become public after the voting has been closed. There is no secret here - except when the votes are being counted, the results are "pending". I personally think this could fix some of the flaws we have in the voting RFC, and maybe even get more people to participate in the voting. The voting RFC says nothing about the individual vote needing to actually be public even after the results are in. It is also very unclear on who actually can vote, but thats a separate ting. -Hannes -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
