> Wow. From a participation standpoint that seems pretty pathetic. If 30 is the > average that means most people never vote. > > I would have assumed that having a vote would mean that people would be > expected to vote periodically or if not then loose the privilege.
How many of the 1900 are aware that they're eligible to vote? (a few hundred? could probably count the unique voters) Discussions mentioning details of the RFC voting eligibility itself (e.g. this thread) are probably rare, and limited to subscribers that actively read mailing lists (or see links from external posts). I wasn't aware that I was able to use many of the internal tools until a few months ago, or that I was an eligible voter until I read up on the RFC process. (I assumed there was a small core group of voters) When my php.net account was created, I don't remember seeing notifications/emails about what you're eligible to do, just the fact it was created. (It's been a while, I can't find the first email) There are probably ways to increase awareness - I have no idea what the current state of this is. - One-time notifications about this and other information on contributing when logging into pecl, bugs.php.net, the wiki, or other subdomains (e.g. "Did you know?" dialog boxes) - Links to the same thing included in emails when creating new accounts -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
