Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-30 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 20:22, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 20:10, Rowan Tommins > wrote: > > > > > > I would be interested to hear your thoughts on these suggestions. > > > > I encourage you to work on them. Or anyone else who cares to. And the > sooner there is concrete alternati

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-29 Thread Paul M. Jones
> On Sep 29, 2019, at 14:34, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > What this RFC provides framework > for is for initiating contentious and harmful personal attacks on people > because they "send too many emails" or question the RFC process or tell > somebody their idea for the RFC may not be the best

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Although I agree with the action of removing those people, there were > no clear rules, or people who could 'officially' tell those people > "your behaviour is being disruptive". This RFC at least provides a > framework for that. We don't need any people that need to "officially" tell anyth

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-29 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 20:10, Rowan Tommins wrote: > > > I would be interested to hear your thoughts on these suggestions. > I encourage you to work on them. Or anyone else who cares to. And the sooner there is concrete alternative proposal the better. But in the meantime, I think this RFC is an

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-28 Thread Rowan Tommins
On 19 September 2019 18:18:40 BST, Dan Ackroyd wrote: >Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations" >https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prevent_disruptions_of_conversations Looking at this RFC purely from the stated motivation, I think that there are two key things that need improving before

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I strongly disagree. > > Theoretically, if someone wants to send 'adversarial' communications > to other internals contributors, they should either do it where > everyone can see those messages, or not send them. I appreciate that this may be your personal preference, but it's just that -

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-27 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 09:27, Brent wrote: > Zeev, while I agree with many of your points, you also don't offer a > concrete solution. > To be fair to Zeev, he did in fact try to kick off a discussion about Workflows and Voting back in January: https://externals.io/message/103917 | https://wiki

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-27 Thread Pierre Joye
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 1:00 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:52 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > Speaking of 'disruptive behavior' that the antithesis of promoting 'good > > will' - this pseudo RFC is a textbook example. > > > > I wrote an analysis of this outlandish proposal t

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-27 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 07:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > the RFC process, which was never designed to regulate > the most fundamental communications channel Systems grow, and sometimes are used for things outside those that they were initially designed for. An example of this is PHP, which is used

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-27 Thread Brent
Hello all While my conclusions differ from Zeev's on this topic, this document addresses many valid point as to why this RFC in its current form shouldn't be voted in. I believe it should be added in the original RFC as a counterargument — I think internals@ recently agreed that adding counter

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-26 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:52 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Speaking of 'disruptive behavior' that the antithesis of promoting 'good > will' - this pseudo RFC is a textbook example. > I wrote an analysis of this outlandish proposal that I hope some may find useful: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/analysi

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > You're right that 7.4 will probably come out, I remain concerned that > fixing any bugs that are found during the release process, or > inevitably those found after the 7.4.0 release occurs, would be more > difficult if people are hesitant to discuss issues on internals. What is the base o

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Paul M. Jones
> On Sep 23, 2019, at 09:16, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > > On 23.09.2019 at 15:55, Paul M. Jones wrote: > >> Ah, if only that were true. No, moderators have the power to act >> immediately, whereas any oversight regarding them can act only slowly, with >> deliberation, after long latency -

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Dan Ackroyd
Hi Stas, On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 19:36, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > This has absolutely nothing to do with successful 7.4 > release. If from now on internals became so bad we could > literally agree on nothing, pass no RFCs, make no > decisions, etc. - we still could very well release 7.4 > with

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 23.09.2019 at 15:55, Paul M. Jones wrote: > Ah, if only that were true. No, moderators have the power to act immediately, > whereas any oversight regarding them can act only slowly, with deliberation, > after long latency -- and even *then* only after long discussion, which the > moderators

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Paul M. Jones
Hey there -- >>> On Sep 20, 2019, at 01:25, Brent wrote: >>> >>> Moderators are no dictators >> >> Maybe, maybe not. >> >> But moderators can and do play favorites, banning or silencing one voice (of >> whom they disapprove) for the same things that they ignore from another >> voice (of whom

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-23 Thread Brent
Hi Paul On 20 Sep 2019, 16:04 +0200, Paul M. Jones , wrote: > > > > On Sep 20, 2019, at 01:25, Brent wrote: > > > > Moderators are no dictators > > Maybe, maybe not. > > But moderators can and do play favorites, banning or silencing one voice (of > whom they disapprove) for the same things that t

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Another thing I feel I have to emphasize here. This has absolutely > nothing to do with successful 7.4 release. If from now on internals Unless I am missing something and we do have still unresolved issues that block the release? Then we probably should go back to figuring them out and not

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > This is a stop-gap measure to allow us to use the internals newsgroup > to be able to ship PHP 7.4 successfully. Another thing I feel I have to emphasize here. This has absolutely nothing to do with successful 7.4 release. If from now on internals became so bad we could literally agree on n

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Please can you look at the past 3 months of discussions on this list > and ask yourself have those conversations been productive and/or > pleasant? Do you think other people think those conversations have > been productive and/or pleasant? I've seen a lot of conversations here, both product

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:24 PM Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:53 AM Zeev Suraski wrote: > This style of conversation has regularly lead to contributors that don't > want the intensity quit contributing silently. It is not healthy for this > community. > > Just because

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Paul M. Jones
> On Sep 20, 2019, at 01:25, Brent wrote: > > Moderators are no dictators Maybe, maybe not. But moderators can and do play favorites, banning or silencing one voice (of whom they disapprove) for the same things that they ignore from another voice (of whom they do approve). Moderators, wit

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:53 AM Zeev Suraski wrote: > Andreas, all, > > Speaking of 'disruptive behavior' that the antithesis of promoting 'good > will' - this pseudo RFC is a textbook example. > But some of the responses on the thread are actually more interesting and > nicely written and do wa

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Zeev Suraski
Andreas, all, Speaking of 'disruptive behavior' that the antithesis of promoting 'good will' - this pseudo RFC is a textbook example. But some of the responses on the thread are actually more interesting and nicely written and do warrant a response. On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:14 AM Andreas Heigl

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 06:50, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > I am not sure what is the purpose of this. Please can you look at the past 3 months of discussions on this list and ask yourself have those conversations been productive and/or pleasant? Do you think other people think those conversation

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 08:30, Midori Koçak wrote: > > A RFC that it's motivation is to prevent beginners from asking questions. Asking questions by itself is not a problem. It only becomes a problem when those questions are taking up a lot of other people's time and making it difficult to even f

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Andreas Heigl
Hey Midory, Hey all. Am 20.09.19 um 09:30 schrieb Midori Koçak: > Wow. > > A RFC that it's motivation is to prevent beginners from asking questions. Is it? I'm citing from the RFC: > This explicitly wouldn't apply to 'positive' conversations. e.g. if someone > asks for help, and you want to c

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Midori Koçak
Wow. A RFC that it's motivation is to prevent beginners from asking questions. That's horrible. I rather prefer a CoC. What about this? https://confcodeofconduct.com/ On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 19:19, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > Hi internals, > > Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-20 Thread Andreas Heigl
Hey Stas, Hey All. Am 20.09.19 um 08:00 schrieb Stanislav Malyshev: > Hi! > >> taken part of). So given that track record, along with how the project >> philosophy generally is, I do not see abuse being a problem, even the >> sligtest. > > There are a lot of things that I thought our project ph

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Brent
internals@ needs what every community needs: proper moderation. Moderators are no dictators who will force their opinion on how the language is shaped, nor will they silence people with fear. This is no alien concept on the internet, and nothing ground breaking or disruptive is being proposed.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > taken part of). So given that track record, along with how the project > philosophy generally is, I do not see abuse being a problem, even the > sligtest. There are a lot of things that I thought our project philosophy does not admit, but turns out I have been wrong. I don't see why if we

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations" > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prevent_disruptions_of_conversations?do=edit I am not sure what is the purpose of this. Teaching other adults how to behave? Its usually a futile task. The RFC is expressed in extremely vague terms, like: t

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Paul M. Jones
> On Sep 19, 2019, at 12:18, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > > Hi internals, > > Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations" > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prevent_disruptions_of_conversations?do=edit Quoting the RFC: > The RFC process is currently the way that the PHP internals team make >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Chase Peeler
I've copy/pasted Kalle's email at the bottom so that I can address points made in both emails without risking someone getting distracted from the myriad of emails relating to coordination of work on PHP. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM Mark Randall wrote: > On 19/09/2019 18:38, Chase Peeler wrot

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Mark Randall
On 19/09/2019 18:38, Chase Peeler wrote: So, in other words, if the majority of core members decide they want to force strict typing in PHP 9, and non-core PHP developers voice their opposition to such a change, there would be nothing to prevent those core members from voting to suspend the non-c

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tor. 19. sep. 2019 kl. 20.38 skrev Chase Peeler : > So, in other words, if the majority of core members decide they want to > force strict typing in PHP 9, and non-core PHP developers voice their > opposition to such a change, there would be nothing to prevent those core > members from voting t

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Chase Peeler
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:36 PM Dan Ackroyd wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 18:33, Chase Peeler wrote: > > > > Would the removal votes be limited to the same people able to vote on > RFCs, > > Yes, that's correct. > > cheers > Dan > So, in other words, if the majority of core members decide the

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 18:33, Chase Peeler wrote: > > Would the removal votes be limited to the same people able to vote on RFCs, Yes, that's correct. cheers Dan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Chase Peeler
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:18 PM Dan Ackroyd wrote: > Hi internals, > > Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations" > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prevent_disruptions_of_conversations?do=edit > > A couple of notes: > > * although the RFC would only be applicable to messages sent once it >

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations

2019-09-19 Thread Dan Ackroyd
Hi internals, Here is an RFC to "Prevent disruptions of conversations" https://wiki.php.net/rfc/prevent_disruptions_of_conversations?do=edit A couple of notes: * although the RFC would only be applicable to messages sent once it might be approved, it would still be nice if people consider how th