Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Deleu
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:15 PM Tobias Nyholm wrote: > Hey Marco. > > The fact that you unprompted (as far as I can tell) decided to in detail > specify how RMs should make their decision about an RFC is giving me a > strong signal that you don’t trust the role of the Release Manager. The > timi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Tobias Nyholm
Hey Marco. I know you are not a bad person and Im sure your intention is to bring more clarity and to add something that is helpful. And to state something I hope is obvious: I am not accusing you for trying to reduce the role of Release Manager or anything else. > I'm interested in understa

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Deleu
Derick, On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM Derick Rethans wrote: > That's where I disagree already. The nullable intersections RFC isn't a > refinement, it's a new feature. > And if I had voting powers, that would be exactly my reasoning for voting no: "Not a Refinement RFC". However, whether a Re

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Sara Golemon
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 5:57 PM Tobias Nyholm wrote: > > Situations like this often requires a judgement call rather than something > that could be defined as a policy. > I suggest the release managers always should be in agreement before a RFC > is created during a “feature freeze”. If the relea

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Derick Rethans
On 24 August 2021 19:53:57 BST, Deleu wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 19:28 Derick Rethans wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Deleu wrote: >> >> > We recently had the Nullable Intersection Types RFC process in an >> > unconventional way starting a new RFC post feature freeze. If memory >> > serves me

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Pierre Joye
good evening Dan, First of all, could you please not merge many different mails in one single reply? Thanks. On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 1:43 AM Dan Ackroyd wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > > Many additions went through while being incomplete. > > > For almost all recent RFCS > > related to syntax, a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Tobias Nyholm
> Tobias Nyholm wrote: >> then the discussion and the vote should not consider “if it is too late” >> or “this is rushed”. > > This is a really bad idea. Previously (but not recently), some of the > more heated RFC discussions moved from being about the RFC to being > about what are "right" and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Deleu
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 19:28 Derick Rethans wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Deleu wrote: > > > We recently had the Nullable Intersection Types RFC process in an > > unconventional way starting a new RFC post feature freeze. If memory > > serves me right, another similar incident happened with the At

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Dan Ackroyd
Pierre Joye wrote: > Many additions went through while being incomplete. > ... > For almost all recent RFCS > related to syntax, arguments/return types or properties, I don't think > it justifies being added while being incomplete. I think you are remembering how changes were made to PHP through r

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Deleu wrote: > In order to not be empty-handed, I started a gist that can be seen as > the starting point for this discussion, available at > https://gist.github.com/deleugpn/9d0e285f13f0b4fdcfc1d650b20c3105. 4. A Refinement RFC MAY be proposed with a schedule for ending it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Deleu wrote: > We recently had the Nullable Intersection Types RFC process in an > unconventional way starting a new RFC post feature freeze. If memory > serves me right, another similar incident happened with the Attributes > RFC which had a syntax that could not be implem

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Deleu
> > Situations like this often requires a judgement call rather than something > that could be defined as a policy. > I suggest the release managers always should be in agreement before a RFC > is created during a “feature freeze”. If the release managers agree that a > change can be added, then th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Pierre Joye
Hi Jordan, On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 4:55 PM Jordan LeDoux wrote: > 1. Are too large or complex for voters to make an informed decision about. This is the real problem. Also you are correct on the cause (complexity of a topic), I don't think we are not able to understand complex RFCs. > 2. Inclu

Re: [PHP-DEV] Guidelines for RFC post feature-freeze

2021-08-24 Thread Jordan LeDoux
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:09 PM Pierre Joye wrote: > > Many additions went through while being incomplete. It was documented > so in the RFC but it does not make it a good thing. Many of them are > indeed much needed and related to features (some) PHP users have been > waiting for. Are they crit