Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-19 Thread Christoph Becker
Levi Morrison wrote: >> Whatever you want to improve, please consider that the PHP wiki is >> driven by DokuWiki which needs to get updated from time to time (lately >> there have been two updates every year[1]; this is not accounting any >> necessary updates to DokuWiki plugins). These updates s

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-18 Thread Levi Morrison
> Whatever you want to improve, please consider that the PHP wiki is > driven by DokuWiki which needs to get updated from time to time (lately > there have been two updates every year[1]; this is not accounting any > necessary updates to DokuWiki plugins). These updates seem to be > painful alread

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Christoph Becker wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >> However, as of today, you are the blocking point when it comes to >> improve the wiki RFCs, registration and voting areas.And this is >> really becoming a problem. I am not talking about irregularities and >> the l

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-18 Thread Christoph Becker
Pierre Joye wrote: > However, as of today, you are the blocking point when it comes to > improve the wiki RFCs, registration and voting areas.And this is > really becoming a problem. I am not talking about irregularities and > the likes and I agree that it may not be fair to start bitching about >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mar 19, 2015 5:20 AM, "Hannes Magnusson" wrote: > > I have asked you before to stop harassing me, and stop spreading these > lies and defamation before. > Furthermore I have asked you to stop emailing all together. > > I have asked you very politely several times before. > > Please refrain for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-18 Thread Hannes Magnusson
I have asked you before to stop harassing me, and stop spreading these lies and defamation before. Furthermore I have asked you to stop emailing all together. I have asked you very politely several times before. Please refrain for talking about me or to me ever again. I will take legal actions if

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Sebastian B.-Hagensen > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2015-03-17 20:55 GMT+01:00 Hannes Magnusson : >>> If you need to confirm the statistics, or gather more background data, >>> then feel free to contact me pr

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-17 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Sebastian B.-Hagensen wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-03-17 20:55 GMT+01:00 Hannes Magnusson : >> If you need to confirm the statistics, or gather more background data, >> then feel free to contact me privately, off the list, and I'll get you >> the account approval dates (k

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-17 Thread Sebastian B.-Hagensen
Hi, 2015-03-17 20:55 GMT+01:00 Hannes Magnusson : > If you need to confirm the statistics, or gather more background data, > then feel free to contact me privately, off the list, and I'll get you > the account approval dates (karma and/or wiki). While I agree that the issue at hand was not presen

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-17 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > All, > > I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right > now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I > decided to pull some stats. > > The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-16 Thread Andrey Hristov
On 16.03.2015 01:08, Jordi Boggiano wrote: On 15/03/2015 22:27, Derick Rethans wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Zeev Suraski wrote: I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing this: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB Do you know who Kris

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-16 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
> On 16.03.2015, at 15:03, Kristian Köhntopp wrote: > > That is me. And I voted no on a broken poposal. And because some people asked, the kk account is not new. I have been using PHP since about 1997/98, joining the community around the times of the first PHP 3.0 beta-releases. Boris Erdmann

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-16 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
> On 15.03.2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > > kk - no That is me. And I voted no on a broken poposal. K -- Kristian Köhntopp http://google.com/+KristianKohntopp signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-16 Thread Peter Cowburn
On 15 March 2015 at 15:23, Levi Morrison wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: > > > >> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > >> > >> All, > >> > >> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right > >> now. There were a number of voters

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2015.03.16. 4:18 ezt írta ("Philip Sturgeon" ): > > One rule I liked when I was part of the FIG was that people can only > vote on votes initiated after they became a member. That stops people > signing up simply to vote on an RFC which needs more votes either way. > > I'm not saying that happened,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > One rule I liked when I was part of the FIG was that people can only > vote on votes initiated after they became a member. That stops people > signing up simply to vote on an RFC which needs more votes either way. That makes a lot of sense, though I don't think we had much of this issue. Fi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Philip Sturgeon
One rule I liked when I was part of the FIG was that people can only vote on votes initiated after they became a member. That stops people signing up simply to vote on an RFC which needs more votes either way. I'm not saying that happened, but a simple rule saying "You cannot vote on any RFC start

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jordi Boggiano wrote: > On 15/03/2015 22:27, Derick Rethans wrote: >> >> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing this: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/p

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Jordi Boggiano
On 15/03/2015 22:27, Derick Rethans wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Zeev Suraski wrote: I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing this: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the p

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Rowan Collins
On 15/03/2015 19:07, Derick Rethans wrote: Rowan Collins schreef op 15 maart 2015 17:59:17 GMT+00:00: On 15/03/2015 14:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: All, I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I decided

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing > > this: > > > > https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB > > Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the > proliferation of PHP? How

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > theory" cries despite Anthony's statement above. As I've already > indicated, and being a Yes voter, I'm sort of dubious about even my > own voting rights, and votes of my nature have previously been called > out as a bad thing by people on both sides of the RFC. If you think you're not inf

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: Wim Godden [mailto:wim.god...@cu.be] > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:30 PM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities > > > On 15/03/2015 20:30, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Dennis Birkholz
Hi all, Am 15.03.2015 um 15:19 schrieb Anthony Ferrara: > ... There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. I wondered about who the people are that vote and how they "earned" the right to do so. I think this kind of confusion could be avoided if people.php.net would contain a little mor

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > voting practices. Anthony specifically notes that he is not calling > them bad, or calling for them to be ignored in the context of the He's not calling them bad directly, he is calling them "irregularities", singling them out and arguing that they are the reason the RFC is currently does n

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Wim Godden
On 15/03/2015 20:30, Zeev Suraski wrote: I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing this: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the proliferation of PHP? How can you bring your

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Which post says that we're turning PHP into Java. And to this > misguided FUD post, that actively asks people to vote no, I can quite > easily attribute a few more no votes of people that had never voted > before... I have seen many messages on the list which I personally consider very wron

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > So consider that discussion open. I guess this would have to happen sooner or later - sooner or later somebody, when the vote doesn't go their way, would cry "who are all these people? It can't be right they are all legit, there must be something wrong". I'm not sure though where this discu

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Pádraic Brady
Hi, On 15 March 2015 at 14:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > I'm not saying that all of these are bad votes. Nor that they > shouldn't be counted. I think it does raise a significant question > around the voting practices. I think folk should be cautious about linking the proximity of a certain RFC t

AW: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Robert Stoll
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Matthew Leverton [mailto:lever...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. März 2015 20:46 > An: Anthony Ferrara > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Anthony

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Stelian Mocanita
Can we please stop with this? It's damaging to the language and the community. I am a strong believer of STH, no surprise there, but I do not think this thread should have been created. Is the php voting process uncontrolled and chaotic with no real count of voting members? Hell yes. This does no

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Bley
> Which post says that we're turning PHP into Java I think there are people who want to switch from Java to PHP, maybe they feel easier with declare(strict...). Also in the past, some companies switched from PHP to Java because they wanted more strictness in their backend code. I don't like dec

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Matthew Leverton
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > All, > > I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right > now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I > decided to pull some stats. > ... > > Something that I think we need to discuss as a group. >

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
> I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing > this: > > https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB Derick, Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the proliferation of PHP? How can you bring yourself to say he has no clue?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Arvids Godjuks
2015-03-15 20:55 GMT+02:00 Levi Morrison : > > What we need, is a MANAGER! To manage the Type Hint development. And one > > that is not doing real development on PHP core, but someone with > > understanding. > > You are basically saying we should hand development of a critical > language feature o

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Derick Rethans
Rowan Collins schreef op 15 maart 2015 17:59:17 GMT+00:00: >On 15/03/2015 14:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: >> All, >> >> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right >> now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I >> decided to pull some stats. >> >> The fo

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Levi Morrison
> What we need, is a MANAGER! To manage the Type Hint development. And one > that is not doing real development on PHP core, but someone with > understanding. You are basically saying we should hand development of a critical language feature over to someone not doing real development on the langua

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Peter Petermann
Hi Anthony, I am zimt. And yes, you are correct, i haven't voted before, infact, I've kept myself out of all discussions for a long time - for my own reasons, however after reading into your proposal, the discussion around it, I made the decision to cast a vote against your RFC. You can't just t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Arvids Godjuks
C'mon guys, vote didn't pass, it's time to do something about it and not start conspiracy theories (or I will loose hope for humanity completely). I happened to have a job-free next week, i've been saying for a long time now that this has to be tackled differently and even layed down some thoughts

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Rowan Collins
On 15/03/2015 14:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: All, I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I decided to pull some stats. The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went up: dom - no eliw - n

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Sturgeon [mailto:pjsturg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 6:31 PM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: Levi Morrison; Michael Wallner; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities > > Literally

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Eli
On 3/15/15 10:19 AM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > [...] > The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went up: > [...] > eliw - no > [...] > Some of these names I recognize from list (sammywg and eliw), but many I do > not. > [...] > I'm not saying that all of these are bad votes. Nor th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Philip Sturgeon
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> I am aware of this, but unless I just missed it that site doesn't show >> *when* they got an account. > > None of these accounts are recent as far as I can tell from my email > archive. For the record, with the exception of Eli - with whom

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Maciej Sobaczewski
I am aware of this, but unless I just missed it that site doesn't show *when* they got an account. As you already said, there's no acceptation date on that site, but it seems that new accounts are appended to the end of the list - http://people.php.net/?page=33 Probably better than nothing.

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
> I am aware of this, but unless I just missed it that site doesn't show > *when* they got an account. None of these accounts are recent as far as I can tell from my email archive. For the record, with the exception of Eli - with whom I discussed the reasons he voted against the Coercive RFC - I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Michael Wallner
>> >> Is there a way to check when someone got a php.net account/karma? >> >> >> http://people.php.net >> > > I am aware of this, but unless I just missed it that site doesn't show > *when* they got an account. Oh, sorry! I thought it reads something like “Account opened: Y-m-d” but that’s

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Levi Morrison
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: > > On 15 03 2015, at 16:23, Levi Morrison wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: > > > On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > > All, > > I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 15.03.2015 16:44, Pádraic Brady wrote: > > I don't think it's ridiculous in a separate thread around discussing > voting practices. Anthony specifically notes that he is not calling > them bad, or calling for them to be ignored in the context of the > current RFCs. Merely noting that their exis

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Pádraic Brady
Hi Michael, On 15 March 2015 at 14:29, Michael Wallner wrote: > > Jeez, that is becoming ridiculous. So, if you’re that good in counting, how > many did not vote before STHv0.3? > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Michael Wallner
> On 15 03 2015, at 16:23, Levi Morrison wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: >> >>> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right >>> now. There were a number of voters

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Levi Morrison
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: > >> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right >> now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I >> decided to pull some stats. >> >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Michael Wallner
> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > > All, > > I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right > now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I > decided to pull some stats. > > The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went

[PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

2015-03-15 Thread Anthony Ferrara
All, I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I decided to pull some stats. The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went up: dom - no eliw - no kguest - yes kk - no nohn - no oliver - yes