Hi Rowan,
Rowan Collins wrote:
On 17/11/2016 18:03, Joe Watkins wrote:
Afternoon Chrisoph,
The minimum number of votes is going to be the subject of another RFC,
let's leave that aside for now.
I'm not sure splitting this into lots of micro-decisions is wise: why
not discuss a general reform of the voting system, and have a single RFC
which can then document the agreed system, and supersede
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting?
This might be a good idea, even if we only change the threshold.
A potential problem with our current system of policy RFCs is I don't
think can we amend existing ones, only pass new ones. This would mean
you'd have to refer to the Voting RFC and the new RFC (as proposed by
Joe) to understand the current policy, rather than it all being in one
place. Worse, if you just read the Voting RFC on its own, you wouldn't
know the threshold it specifies is no longer correct.
To compare to legal systems for a moment, they don't have to have this
problem. In the UK, we have Acts of Parliament, which pass and become
part of the law. But those acts can amend existing Acts that are already
part of the law, to keep things neat. That makes things simpler, because
when you want to know what the current law is, you only have to refer to
the existing Act as amended, not the existing Act and a new Act which
supplements and possibly overrides it. You can also of course replace
existing Acts entirely, or create new supplementary Acts, but you want
to avoid this when making small changes like the one Joe proposes.
Creating an RFC which would completely replace the Voting RFC would
avoid people having to refer to two RFCs, one of which overrides the other.
Alternatively, we could decide to do what the law does, and update the
Voting RFC in place once a new RFC passes, so the wiki page for it would
reflect the amended rules, not the RFC as it originally passed. This is
a wiki, so we do have revision control and could mention on the page
that it had been amended, and link to the original version. (This is,
incidentally, what the UK's legislation website does.)
Regards.
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Andrea Faulds
https://ajf.me/
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