RE: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mar 18, 2015 4:01 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Florian Anderiasch [mailto:m...@anderiasch.de] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:48 AM To: Stanislav Malyshev; Stelian Mocanita Cc: PHP Internals List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process

RE: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-18 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Florian Anderiasch [mailto:m...@anderiasch.de] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:48 AM To: Stanislav Malyshev; Stelian Mocanita Cc: PHP Internals List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal TL;DR: I'd prefer no one actively trying to lobby

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mar 18, 2015 10:52 AM, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Private emails, pressure and what many, including myself, consider as harassment is a big issue in many OSS projects, and for PHP too. I am What exactly you are calling harassment? Repeatedly, explicitly,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! Private emails, pressure and what many, including myself, consider as harassment is a big issue in many OSS projects, and for PHP too. I am What exactly you are calling harassment? I have a feeling we are talking about different things, so it would be nice to explain what exactly is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Sebastian B.-Hagensen
Hi, 2015-03-17 21:35 GMT+01:00 Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com: Or, even worse, given current tendencies, somebody submits a proposal, couple of people say yeah good idea, then vote happens and somehow there's 30 no votes without any explanation - and without possibility to fix it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! While I agree with discussing an ongoing vote, I do not find it ok for people to be able to see the current status of an ongoing vote. This might lead to harassing people into voting just to change the outcome. Clear example: You frame trying to change people's mind as something negative

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stelian Mocanita
Why we want to block it? What's wrong in convincing people that your idea is OK (or that it's not OK, for that matter)? Isn't it kind of the whole point of discussing it? While I agree with discussing an ongoing vote, I do not find it ok for people to be able to see the current status of an

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think having clearer rules about what lobbying is permitted, and introducing some rules on who can vote on what would be a better way of limiting the effect of lobbying. And pretty soon we'll have 100-page

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Kris Craig
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think having clearer rules about what lobbying is permitted, and introducing some rules on who can vote on what would be a better way of limiting the effect of lobbying. And pretty soon we'll have

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 17.03.2015 22:37, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: While I agree with discussing an ongoing vote, I do not find it ok for people to be able to see the current status of an ongoing vote. This might lead to harassing people into voting just to change the outcome. Clear example: You frame trying

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! I think having clearer rules about what lobbying is permitted, and introducing some rules on who can vote on what would be a better way of limiting the effect of lobbying. And pretty soon we'll have 100-page law codex about rules of campaigning and campaign expenditures and what can be

RE: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Zeev Suraski
issues like that. Zeev -Original Message- From: Stelian Mocanita [mailto:stelian.mocan...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:02 PM To: PHP Internals List Subject: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal Hello internals, In the light of recent events, I would like to propose

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! people vote to appear/be active I don't see any way to avoid it - people with a strong opinion might still try to win over, others might just go this route if they think something really, really bad is happening - we'll never know unless they publicly post this call to action. So,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Ackroyd
I dislike the lobbying, and think some of the allgeged abusive back-channel communications are wildly out of order, but I would be against this change. There have been a couple of instances in the past few weeks where someone has voted in a particular way. When asked why they voted like that,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Stelian Mocanita stelian.mocan...@gmail.com wrote: Why we want to block it? What's wrong in convincing people that your idea is OK (or that it's not OK, for that matter)? Isn't it kind of the whole point of discussing it? While I agree with discussing

[PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stelian Mocanita
Hello internals, In the light of recent events, I would like to propose a change to the way we vote. The change would be switching from visible casted votes to private / hidden votes until the date/time the vote closes, at which time everything will be made visible once again. This would block

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! This would block voting lobbying in various social channels based on possible outcomes, and would allow voting to run its course unaltered. The people Why we want to block it? What's wrong in convincing people that your idea is OK (or that it's not OK, for that matter)? Isn't it kind of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread johncogg
I see absolutely no issues with the visibility of votes, or the act of “lobbying” for someone’s vote. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! This would block voting lobbying in various social channels based on possible outcomes, and would allow

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote process change proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! Repeatedly, explicitly, strongly asking to shut down a RFC or general proposal is what I consider as harassment. Even more if prominent figures do it. As I suspected, your definition of harassment is very different from mine. If someone would ask me to shutdown RFC without explanation,