Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> > > And I wonder why that should have more precise rules than the ones we > use to hand out accounts. Basically every candidate I imagine could get > a "proper" account easily, if they want. - we have a dedicated page for requesting vcs account - we also have an agreed upon, loosely defin

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:23 +0200, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > I think the issue is not who, in general terms, can vote, but how a > determination that someone is covered by those terms is made. > > What is a "known" OSS project? For instance, which of these would > qualify: > http://en.wikipedia.o

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:34:06 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: I have a problem that we don't have understanding of what is the goal of this whole vote setup. What is it for? What we will be doing with it? And please don't say "it says so in

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: I am ignoring the comment about FUDs because I have no idea what it is > about, so I guess you are answering somebody other's comment that I have > not read. It was not for you directly but the voting opponent (the very few we have) who cannot get over it. However you are ri

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Stas, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> The goal is to have community leader participating in our design >> discussions and decisions. It has happened already for a couple of >> RFCs (accepted and rejected) and went very well. The FUDs about core >> devs, legacy

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-18 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > The goal is to have community leader participating in our design > discussions and decisions. It has happened already for a couple of > RFCs (accepted and rejected) and went very well. The FUDs about core > devs, legacy developers and the like loosing control about the > direction PHP takes

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > hi, > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Philip Olson wrote: > >>  1. Those with SVN [sic] access (but how does karma come into play?) > > It does, or we begin to have 2nd, 3rd and totally irrelevant classes > of developers or doc writers. A

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Philip Olson wrote: >  1. Those with SVN [sic] access (but how does karma come into play?) It does, or we begin to have 2nd, 3rd and totally irrelevant classes of developers or doc writers. >  2. Those without (how do we provide such rights? to whom?) See

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Stas, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > I have a problem that we don't have understanding of what is the goal of > this whole vote setup. What is it for? What we will be doing with it? > And please don't say "it says so in RFC" - it is not a goal. Let me clarify that a

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Philip Olson
On Apr 17, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Christopher Jones wrote: > > > On 04/17/2012 03:50 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> sorry, I can't really follow you with that. >>> do you have a problem allowing the non-vcs users (defined by the voting >>> rfc) to vote, or do you have a problem providing a

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Christopher Jones
On 04/17/2012 03:50 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! sorry, I can't really follow you with that. do you have a problem allowing the non-vcs users (defined by the voting rfc) to vote, or do you have a problem providing a clear way for them to get their voting karma? I have a problem that we don'

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > sorry, I can't really follow you with that. > do you have a problem allowing the non-vcs users (defined by the voting > rfc) to vote, or do you have a problem providing a clear way for them to > get their voting karma? I have a problem that we don't have understanding of what is the goal of

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51948.html > > Pierre said that it was a bug(better to say lack of restriction), that > > everybody with wiki account was able to vote, so I changed the voting > > plugin to on

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51948.html > Pierre said that it was a bug(better to say lack of restriction), that > everybody with wiki account was able to vote, so I changed the voting > plugin to only allow the specific groups(vcs + voting) to be able to vote. Thi

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-17 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> > >>> Why would that be a separate thread? Isn't that what we're talking >>> about? I.e. determining who gets voting access and who doesn't? >> >> >> I just ask for clarification on how the community representatives (which >> is defined in the accepted voting RFC) can get their karma. >> You a

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Philip Olson
On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> >>> Just to play devil's advocate (Satan and I go way back), what about people who are established PHP develo

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Ryan McCue wrote: > Kris Craig wrote: > >> An argument could be made that, as the users of PHP, they should be able >> to have some say in its development. >> > > As a PHP developer (that is, a developer who writes in PHP), I'd agree, > *to an extent*. There are c

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ryan McCue
Kris Craig wrote: An argument could be made that, as the users of PHP, they should be able to have some say in its development. As a PHP developer (that is, a developer who writes in PHP), I'd agree, *to an extent*. There are certainly things that I'd like to be able to vote on (such as addit

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> >>> Just to play devil's advocate (Satan and I go way back), what about people who are established PHP dev

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > >> >>> Just to play devil's advocate (Satan and I go way back), what about >>> people who are established PHP developers but who generally don't >>> participate in the development/dis

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > >> Just to play devil's advocate (Satan and I go way back), what about >> people who are established PHP developers but who generally don't >> participate in the development/discussion of PHP core? An argument could >> be made that, as the

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> > > Just to play devil's advocate (Satan and I go way back), what about people > who are established PHP developers but who generally don't participate in > the development/discussion of PHP core? An argument could be made that, as > the users of PHP, they should be able to have some say in its

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > no, it only means that our internal processes aren't clear or easily > > accessible. > > people outside the circle can't do much, than asking people inside to > > let them in. > > If somebody is an outsider to PHP development, why d

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm not sure about it. AFAIK when I implemented my patch to restrict the > > voting to the vcs users + the voting wiki group, we lost that ability. > > (see http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51932.htmlfor > > th

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > I'm not sure about it. AFAIK when I implemented my patch to restrict the > voting to the vcs users + the voting wiki group, we lost that ability. > (see http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51932.html for > the history of that change) I don't see any indication there that

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > no, it only means that our internal processes aren't clear or easily > > accessible. > > people outside the circle can't do much, than asking people inside to > > let them in. > > If somebody is an outsider to PHP development, why d

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > no, it only means that our internal processes aren't clear or easily > accessible. > people outside the circle can't do much, than asking people inside to > let them in. If somebody is an outsider to PHP development, why do you think giving him a deciding vote on it would be a good thing? O

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > the voting RFC explicitly states that it is possible for (some) non-vcs > > users to vote, but there isn't any formal process on how can someone > > apply for voting karma, and what is the decision making process on this. > > And wh

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > the voting RFC explicitly states that it is possible for (some) non-vcs > users to vote, but there isn't any formal process on how can someone > apply for voting karma, and what is the decision making process on this. And what is the problem in not having the formal process? > which went u

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > So this time, I would like focusing only on the following: > > I think before going into these, it is important to answer this > question: what is the problem we're trying to solve? > > the voting RFC explicitly states that it is p

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Kris Craig wrote: > > I reject the premise of that question because it implies that nothing in > > PHP should ever be changed unless it's "fixing" something that's broken. > > By that standard, it would be vi

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Nikita Popov
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Kris Craig wrote: > I reject the premise of that question because it implies that nothing in > PHP should ever be changed unless it's "fixing" something that's broken. > By that standard, it would be virtually impossible to get any new features > added. > > With t

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > So this time, I would like focusing only on the following: > > I think before going into these, it is important to answer this > question: what is the problem we're trying to solve? > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect >

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > So this time, I would like focusing only on the following: I think before going into these, it is important to answer this question: what is the problem we're trying to solve? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Inte

Re: [PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Sherif Ramadan
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I sent an email last year about this issue, but it got sidetracked (partly > it was my fault): > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg54267.html > So this time, I would like focusing only on the following: > >   1. W

[PHP-DEV] voting without vcs accounts

2012-04-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
Hi, I sent an email last year about this issue, but it got sidetracked (partly it was my fault): http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg54267.html So this time, I would like focusing only on the following: 1. What are the requirements for getting voting rights in the wiki wi