Hi! > I honestly don't see what the problem is. If the sample is indeed random, > there's no bias as to what the voters as whole would do, tough for close > votes or for votes where very few people vote the result could differ.
The problem is that this is not consensus, this is apathy and disfunction. If out of 100 or 1000 or whatever we have project participants we can barely find a dozen that want to support a particular change - can we really say this change has the support of the developer community? > But most importantly, I would prefer that the people voting actually > thought hard about the proposal. And it's more likely (I think) that I'd prefer that too. That's another problem with votes which I did talk about in the past too. However, right now we do not have any guarantee that those 10 people that voted are those that thought hard about the proposal, and not just saw it first time yesterday and thought "neat, let's do it, I'll spend as much time on it as it takes to click 'yes' button". I want to emphasize here I don't mean anybody in particular that would do that (I hope nobody does), I am just saying we do not have any way of knowing that, so if you're concerned about that current situation is not ideal. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
