Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-22 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, May 20, 2012 5:44 pm, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Rafael Dohms > wrote: >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Anthony Ferrara >> wrote: >> >>> I had meant to reply to the list, but I had replied to Stas >>> directly. >>> I would be happy to change my vote from iss

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-20 Thread Rafael Dohms
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > See the previous mails, as long as other voters agree to change their > votes to empty only, we are done. If my math does not fail me, we needed one more vote to have the 2/3 mentioned. Anthony has changed his vote, i think we are good to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-20 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Rafael Dohms wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > >> I had meant to reply to the list, but I had replied to Stas directly. >> I would be happy to change my vote from isset() and empty() to empty() >> only if that's what it would

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-20 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > This would settle it, so in the realm of "action" what can we do now? > Is there a rule that allows to call for a re-vote? > Should start a new RFC? > Or can we just alter the vote and consider this the "end of voting"? I think we can just put empty() expression implementation into master a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-20 Thread Rafael Dohms
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > I had meant to reply to the list, but I had replied to Stas directly. > I would be happy to change my vote from isset() and empty() to empty() > only if that's what it would take... > > Anthony This would settle it, so in the realm of "ac

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Anthony Ferrara
Pierre, >> AFAIK 2 of the people voting "both" (myself included) already said they >> are OK with "empty only". > > If the other one can raise his voice, then we are good. I had meant to reply to the list, but I had replied to Stas directly. I would be happy to change my vote from isset() and emp

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Stas, On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> As Stas suggested earlier, it would help if you can convince one >> person having voted none or both to choose the empty only option, then >> you should be good. It is not that good in general, but for 1/3 of a >> voice for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Or simply don't have voting rights ... > Personally I would prefer to see 'empty()' remain limited to real variables. AFAIK all committers have voting rights on wiki. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PH

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
Stas Malyshev wrote: > The PHP group is totally irrelevant in this process, with all due > respect. It is about php.net developers. Which is what I meant - most of the developers (or committers) did not vote at all. Or simply don't have voting rights ... Personally I would prefer to see 'empt

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > The PHP group is totally irrelevant in this process, with all due > respect. It is about php.net developers. Which is what I meant - most of the developers (or committers) did not vote at all. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 2

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-14 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > As Stas suggested earlier, it would help if you can convince one > person having voted none or both to choose the empty only option, then > you should be good. It is not that good in general, but for 1/3 of a > voice for something like that ... :) AFAIK 2 of the people voting "both" (myself

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Pierre Joye
hi. On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > We had at least one precedent of a vote with three options, where the > option that was implemented in the end had only 59% of the votes. As far as I remember the final decision was more about what was actually used in the documentatio

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Sean, On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Sean Coates wrote: >> which raises the question, >> if most of the PHP group doesn't care enough to vote, does it mean it is >> a bad feature? > > > I think the disinterest is more generalized than this particular vote. As far > as I can tell, only 3½ m

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Kris Craig
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Sean Coates wrote: > > can I ask how did you come up with that number, and who is the half man? > :) > > Rasmus, Andi, and Ze'ev. Andrei works with something PHP-related, sort of, > still, and is only involved on occasion, so I counted him for half. > If he's hal

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Sean Coates
> can I ask how did you come up with that number, and who is the half man? :) Rasmus, Andi, and Ze'ev. Andrei works with something PHP-related, sort of, still, and is only involved on occasion, so I counted him for half. The others are all names from Internets past (pardon me if I'm wrong, but I

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Clint Priest
Ironically enough, he's probably the only "whole man" of the Lannisters really. > -Original Message- > From: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@sugarcrm.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 6:23 PM > To: Ferenc Kovacs > Cc: PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV]

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > can I ask how did you come up with that number, and who is the half man? :) Tyrion Lannister? (sorry, couldn't help it) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscri

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Sean Coates wrote: > > which raises the question, > > if most of the PHP group doesn't care enough to vote, does it mean it is > > a bad feature? > > > I think the disinterest is more generalized than this particular vote. As > far as I can tell, only 3½ members

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Sean Coates
> which raises the question, > if most of the PHP group doesn't care enough to vote, does it mean it is > a bad feature? I think the disinterest is more generalized than this particular vote. As far as I can tell, only 3½ members of the PHP Group actually still participate in the PHP community

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Also as I can understand the frustration for such tight votes, it is > however a good sign that there is no real consensus nor a huge > interest to change that. 16/4 is not exactly what I would call "close vote". But I think it's not the lack of consensus but lack of interest - which raises

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Kris Craig wrote: > This is exactly what I was afraid of.  The current voting process doesn't > account for multi-question votes like this It does. But one has to select multiple choices votes too, if he does not want to fail because some voted for one opti

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Kris Craig
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > I just closed the vote for this RFC. The result (see > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs#vote) is: > > > > * Both empty() and isset(): 3 > > * Only empty(): 13 > > * None: 4 > > Low turnout is kind of disappointing - eit

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > I just closed the vote for this RFC. The result (see > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs#vote) is: > > * Both empty() and isset(): 3 > * Only empty(): 13 > * None: 4 Low turnout is kind of disappointing - either people are not interested in this feature or don't care in general.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Sun, 13 May 2012 16:15:43 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote: I'm not sure I can follow. The vote has three options, of which two are quite similar. I don't see how the 2/3 rule for votes with two options can be applied here, in such a black&white fashion. The fact there are more than two options

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Nikita Popov
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > hi, > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > >> The rule is that "a feature affecting the language itself (new syntax for >> example) will be considered as 'accepted' if it wins a 2/3 of the votes". 13 >> votes in 20 is not

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > The rule is that "a feature affecting the language itself (new syntax for > example) will be considered as 'accepted' if it wins a 2/3 of the votes". 13 > votes in 20 is not 2/3 of the votes. So the question is whether any of the > pers

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:23 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote: I just closed the vote for this RFC. The result (see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs#vote) is: * Both empty() and isset(): 3 * Only empty(): 13 * None: 4 I'm not exactly sure what the policy for votes with three options is,

[PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Vote change for empty() RFC

2012-05-13 Thread Nikita Popov
I just closed the vote for this RFC. The result (see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs#vote) is: * Both empty() and isset(): 3 * Only empty(): 13 * None: 4 I'm not exactly sure what the policy for votes with three options is, but given that the large majority voted for "Only empty()", I