On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Rowan Collins wrote:

> On 30/10/2017 03:14, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> > The vote for this should have ended......3 days ago.
> > 
> > At which point I believe the vote was actually passing.
> 
> 
> Hm, that's awkward!
> 
> For the record:
> 
> - voting was announced on the evening of the 9th "for two weeks" which would
> imply the evening of the 23rd
> - however, the e-mail also said "Vote will end on Wednesday the 25th of
> October. "
> - the wiki page states "Vote closing on Oct 27, 2017."
> - https://php-rfc-watch.beberlei.de/ lists "daverandom" voting No at
> 2017-10-28T07:28:00+0000 (*mutters something about relative date display being
> uselessly vague*)
> 
> It's possible that daverandom was several hours west of Greenwich at the time
> (e.g. in North America), where it was still late on October 27th. So taking
> the latest of the three published closing dates, and applying the most
> generous time zone, it's possible that all the votes were valid.
> 
> It's certainly clear that no *new* votes should be counted.
> 
> The last vote before that according to the rfc-watch tool was "salathe" on the
> 21st, so if daverandom's vote is *not* valid, the RFC passes 7:6; however, if
> daverandom's vote *is* valid, we have 7:7, and the RFC is declined.

7:6 is technically not "50%"+1. 50% of 13 is 6½, and 7 is not higher 
than 6½ + 1. :-)

cheers,
Derick

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