Hi! > the anonymous voting was reverted almost instantly, or about the recent CoC > discussion which was back and forth between having the voters/reporters > privacy, shielding them from potential backlash or having more transparency > for the voting results, so I'm curious about what Stas meant as well.
I refer to the time when we had a patch that introduced anonymous votes. My personal opinion is that *if* we were to get to the point when substantial number of people are being attacked personally merely for voting this way or that way, that makes them fearful, it would be horrible. And we'd have to think really hard how to fix that - starting maybe for them to find out a trusted individual in the community which would assemble this information and try to figure out where it is coming from and how to counter that. If however it is just some people not wishing to invest in supporting one side or another, out of concern that it takes too much time and effort to sustain discussion - this is completely normal. We do want more contributors, but when it comes to voting, I think we want the contributors to commit to being serious about their position. There's no obligation to vote if you prefer not to. But if you do, standing by your vote is part of it. This was the idea why we decided to have open vote, as I understand it. So far I don't think it changed - unless, of course, there would be new data that changes the picture. When voting on behavioral matters, however, it is different, since the pattern of bad conduct is at least alleged by the very nature of the matter in question. So there the benefits of anonymous vote outweigh the issues, I think. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
