Afternoon Andrea, Intention was to just update the voting page, and any other related docs that might exist (maybe rfc template).
Cheers Joe On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > https://ajf.me/ > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
