On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Sara Golemon wrote: > Derick was trying to be good and meet my beta3 deadline.
And I even got that date wrong by a week. Oops. > Fortunately, I gave him that deadline (while thinking RC1) knowing > some kind of bullshit like this would come up and LO AND BEHOLD here > we are. So the good news is that we actually have a spare two weeks. > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:22 AM Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > 2. Include a ranked voting option for @: and mention its pros and > > cons (it is equally concise as @@ with no BC break, but is somewhat > > harder to type). Patch link: > > https://github.com/theodorejb/php-src/pull/1 > > Glancing at beberlei's reply, I do agree that @: is coming slightly > out of left field. However, we're using a STV system, so might as > well go wild with the options (within reason). HOWEVER, any option > included is going to need the same care applied as you outline in #3 > and #4 below. I would like to point out that as the main premise of the RFC was that the chosen syntax had no ending delimiter, I would say that any new suggested syntax should have one before I would be willing to consider adding it. > > Derick and Benjamin (and Sara), are these requests reasonable? If > > the RFC follows the discussion period rule and contains all the > > relevant information, I will be much more confident that it is > > resulting in the best long term outcome (and I think this would > > speak for many others on list as well). > > Honestly, the current end date is fine, because the intent of the rule > is met. However, I do like that you're seeking a solution which helps > to put concerns to rest. > > The only part which irks me is that we have 50-some votes already cast > that would be thrown out and have to be redone, and that's on what is > already the 3rd vote on this syntax. > > I'm vote fatigued, personally. However, we're going to have to live > with this syntax forever once it's out, so we should believe that we > believe in it. As I've said, I have no problems with *extending* the time by the week and a bit that I missed. I disagree about having to stop, wipe, and revote. As you said, vote fatigue. cheers, Derick -- PHP 7.4 Release Manager Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io twitter: @derickr and @xdebug -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
