On 20 Jul 2014, at 22:28, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> After the vote has been started the RFC was edited by Zeev in order to > strengthen the case for PHP 7. There is nothing wrong with that, adding > additional arguments to an RFC is perfectly fine by me. > > However at the same time a number of paragraphs were removed that were > arguing for PHP 6, at least in part. The only thing that was left in "The > case for PHP 6" was a single paragraph, of which half was really just an > explanation of the general situation. > > Effectively the edits made the RFC text heavily biased. It's okay to edit an > RFC to add arguments for your side, but I find it discourteous and > disingenuous to remove arguments from the opposing side at the same time. > > As such I can understand Andrea's decision to close this vote until tempers > had time to cool down and both sides had a chance to be fairly represented. It also wasn’t really fair of me to start a vote when there wasn’t really a case for 7, now that I think about it. I suppose that makes my later decision hypocritical, but it does mean we’re in a better place now when we have a second vote, as we have two cases. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
