Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-23 Thread Joe Watkins
> 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-22 Thread Chase Peeler
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:41 AM Joe Watkins 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 sho

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-22 Thread Joe Watkins
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-22 Thread Niklas Keller
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 s

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2019 um 19:20 schrieb Joe Watkins: 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: W

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] Abolish Short Votes

2019-03-21 Thread Joe Watkins
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