On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> And this is how democracy works, Stas. If voters don't bother to turn >> up, too bad. > > Putting aside the fact that democracy has very little to do with what > we're trying to do here (we're not government, we're opensource > project), that's how democracy *doesn't work*. As you noticed, it is > "too bad", and it is exactly the problem we're having - without > participation, votes are decided by a random sample of whoever bothered > to appear, often on a single vote. > This is not a way to build consensus. It is a very unhealthy state of > things, and it only contributes to the image of PHP as a project having > no direction, no governance and basically existing in a state of > brownian motion. I thought we were trying to shed this image.
I couldn't agree more. Which is why I have been trying to preach http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html -Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
