Hi, On 15 March 2015 at 14:19, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not saying that all of these are bad votes. Nor that they > shouldn't be counted. I think it does raise a significant question > around the voting practices.
I think folk should be cautious about linking the proximity of a certain RFC to this topic. It appears to be leading to "conspiracy theory" cries despite Anthony's statement above. As I've already indicated, and being a Yes voter, I'm sort of dubious about even my own voting rights, and votes of my nature have previously been called out as a bad thing by people on both sides of the RFC. As such, there does appear to be a debate to be had. The timing may be unfortunate, given the sensitivity around the scalar type RFCs, but that doesn't remove the fact that the debate should be had if it's going to be dumped onto Twitter and other threads by other people who are not called Anthony ;). As to whether the quoted data suggests suspicious activities: no. The pool of voters is tiny and no trends or conclusions can be drawn, and the number of votes shows that the RFCs have attracted immense attention which would attract erstwhile non-voters which might easily warp the expected result of any vote simply by them exercising their vote unexpectedly. The concern around handing out votes too freely still exists, and I respect that. From the responses thus far, others have declined to exercise or restrict their votes so we do have "issues" to resolve in making it absolutely clear who may or may not vote without feeling some sense of guilt or inviting comment when the vote count reaches for the sky and those like me come out of the woodwork ;). Paddy -- Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
