On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:41 AM Joe Watkins <krak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning Niklas, > > Allowing the extension of voting leaves us open to someone extending the > voting period simply because they don't feel like they have the result they > wanted. > > The problem we're trying to solve is votes that are too short, while > providing the flexibility to have longer votes, but we need to know at the > start of voting what the voting period is going to be. Take for example the > case where a third party to an RFC is planning some work based on the > results of the voting, it doesn't seem fair that their schedule could be > interfered with by the first party after voting starts. > > In the vast majority of cases where someone forgets or isn't aware of a > holiday period, they are going to be told on day one of voting (if not > before, during discussion), and can simply adjust the voting period, and > restart the vote (if there has been any votes at the first interjection) > without having lost any time. > > First, I don't even have a vote. Second, I'd be ambivalent about the ability to extend voting even if I did. A compromise between the two positions could be to allow voting to be extended ONCE, and only within the first X% of the voting period. So, if someone calls for a 14 day voting period, within the first 7 days they can extend it at most one time, and it can never be extended after the first 7 days. Also, if you are going to be updating the language anyway, why not specify that an exact date and time be given for when voting will end. I think most people already do this - but this would codify it and prevent the possibility of ambiguity in the future. > Cheers > Joe > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 08:19, Niklas Keller <m...@kelunik.com> wrote: > > > Resend, because sent from the wrong address previously. > > > > +1, but it should probably be possible to extend the voting period once > > started, but not shorten it. This allows for extension during holidays in > > case the author didn't think about that when starting the vote. > > > > Regards, Niklas > > > > Joe Watkins <krak...@php.net> schrieb am Do., 21. März 2019, 19:20: > > > > > Evening internals, > > > > > > I'd like to raise for discussion another minor, self contained change > to > > > the voting RFC: > > > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abolish-short-votes > > > > > > This seems like another no-brainer to improve and clarify the voting > > > process. As with abolishing narrow margins, I'm focused on this one > > detail > > > and wider discussion of how we may improve other parts of the voting > RFC > > is > > > not appropriate in this thread: We either have a consensus that this > > detail > > > should be changed or we don't, we do not need to discuss any other > > details > > > here. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Joe > > > > > > -- -- Chase chasepee...@gmail.com
