On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Joe Watkins <pthre...@pthreads.org> wrote:

> Afternoon internals,
>
> This has been discussed before in various RFC threads, there does seem to
> be some consensus that 50%+1 votes could be harmful.
>
> To what degree, I am not sure.
>
> I raise for discussion the topic of abolishing 50%+1 votes, and requiring
> all changes regardless of their nature to pass by  a super majority of
> 2/3+1.
>
> Please read the (brief) RFC and raise objections here.
>
> There will be a one week discussion period for this RFC.
>
> Cheers
> Joe
>

A technical note: The existing supermajority requirement is >= 2/3, not >=
2/3+1. I think that should stay the same.

Apart from that, I totally agree that everything should take a 2/3
majority. It simplifies the rules and avoids the common and very pointless
discussion about what exactly constitutes a "language change". I have the
vague impression that this issue has come up on pretty much every major
RFC (like phpng -- Is it really a language change if it's just internals?
Similar for int size changes. Similar for PHP 6 vs 7, etc.)

Nikita

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