Hi! > I didn’t close it because the time suited me most. I made an honest > mistake and closed it 22 or so hours early because I forgot I’d > opened the vote at ~23:00 and not ~02:00. Unfortunately, I realised > my mistake after merging the patch. This was definitely not > intentional.
That's why we should not rush to merge changes on a vote when there are significant objections. There's nothing that mandated this change to be merged immediately after the voting closing, as far as I can see. Yes, we do not want to make the process endless, but it's better to wait just a bit and ensure everybody is satisfied or at least reasonably listened to. Begging people off-list to retract the votes and then close it earlier on a very marginal result definitely looks like gaming the system, even if the intent was not to do that. But the intent is only known to one person, and the actions can be seen by all, so I think it's better to take extra care here. We want the voting to be means of enhancing the consensus, not something that would leave people losing the confidence in the whole process. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
