Afternoon Lester, > Is this simply ... Every element of a vote has to achieve 2/3rds?
Yes, it is. But before you rubbish that idea as ridiculous, think about what it really means. It doesn't mean that people will continue to open a 2/3 vote and then pin a list of subsidiary decisions onto the voting stage. It does mean that the author of the RFC is forced to open a vote with clear, simple options, that must be acceptable to a real majority for the motion to pass. The aim here is only to raise standards by changing our criteria for acceptance, it's one simple move. It has side effects for RFC authors, obviously, which they may first view as negative, but unarguably has a net positive effect for everyone else. Cheers Joe On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/11/16 12:10, Joe Watkins wrote: > > For such a simple question, 3 weeks in total should be long enough. > > Is this simply ... Every element of a vote has to achieve 2/3rds? > While there are many cases where a simple yes/no question can eventually > be agreed on, and I would prefer that some of the 50/50 decisions had a > much greater consensus, areas where there is no clean consensus will not > be solved 'simply' by moving the goal posts? > > The main problem is simply that there is not a common consensus on just > how PHP should develop, and things like 'who can vote' and getting a > sensible number of people to agree on something is just as important. > The recent RFC on 'Debugging PDO Prepared Statement' is a good example > of where people who may be affected have no vote, but people who could > properly assess the now approved patch don't have the time or incentive > to do so. > > A number of current RFC's have overlapping elements where a consensus on > the base approach may be of more use than patching individual parts in > isolation. A vote on the 'roadmap' element with sub sections on elements > which may well not be appropriate for a full 3/2rds in light of the main > question. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
