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/





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