On 03/18/2015 12:17 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> people vote to appear/be active I don't see any way to avoid it - people >> with a strong opinion might still try to win over, others might just go >> this route if they think something really, really bad is happening - >> we'll never know unless they publicly post this call to action. > > So, essentially you say that people that participate have better chance > of getting their way than people that are too busy to care. And that's > supposed to be a bad thing?
No, essentially I'm saying that the number speak for themselves and I think it's unrealistic to assume that the *majority* of people eligible to vote vote on most RFCs. Of course I know that sometimes people are undecided or deliberately don't want to take part in voting once or ever - but compare https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5#vote - 156 votes with https://wiki.php.net/rfc/context_sensitive_lexer#vote - 48 votes > >> TL;DR: I'd prefer no one actively trying to lobby anyone else to vote in >> their favor, but prodding people with a neutral "hey, check out this > > I'd prefer people to express their opinions and try to convince others > freely, without any allegation that doing so is somehow bad and should > be prohibited. If somebody feels that he/she can not objectively vote > and is easily swayed by lobbying, they could recuse themselves from > voting, there's no problem with that and it is easy to do. OTOH, if they > think their friends do not have informed opinions and are easily swayed > by lobbying, they can refrain from calling such friends to vote. But I > don't see why they should prohibit normal discussion behavior for others. I thought I said that, so yes, agreed :) Of course I don't want to limit proper discussions. ~Florian -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
