Re: [VOTE] [RFC] 2/3 vote needed (was: 64 bit platform improvements...)

From: Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 07:15:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] [RFC] 2/3 vote needed (was: 64 bit platform improvements...)
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> Am 18.05.2014 um 08:13 schrieb Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>:
> 
> A few things:
> 
> 
> 
> -        We’re talking about 66%, not %66+1 (i.e., 20 against 10 means a
> Yes, 19 against 10 means a no).

Just to be mathematically clear and to avoid confusion:

We are talking about a 2/3 majority meaning 66.66% not 66%. That means 66 against 34 means no even
though it's 66%. Perhaps that's where the 66%+1 comes from. 

Can't we simply talk of 2/3 to avoid any confusion?

Cheers

Andreas
> 
> -        Nobody is arguing that language changes like annotations will be
> decided by ‘Core’.  It’s open to everyone who has a right to vote according
> to the RFC process.  Note that presently, people who are allowed to vote
> technically don’t actually have a right to vote based on the Voting RFC,
> which requires not only an SVN account, but also actual code contributions
> to the PHP project;  This was a known issue when we rolled out the voting
> mechanism, but this limitation of the voting mechanism doesn’t change the
> who’s eligible to vote.
> 
> -        I am arguing (as well as a few others) that implementation changes
> – ones without a meaningful impact on the userbase at large, should be
> decided by the respective developers of the code portion in question.
> Annotations don’t fall under that category;  Changing internal data
> structures does, and so does changing a documentation platform or
> implementation inside some PECL module.  This isn’t simple to define but
> I’m going to try and draft something up, probably based on the the Karma
> assignment.  Again, this will *not* impact people’s right to vote on the
> vast majority of RFCs out there, which are almost always about features and
> functions, and rarely about implementation.  I still argue that the RFC
> process was never meant to be about implementation, it was so outside the
> scope of the RFC process that I didn’t even think about this possibility
> when I helped drafted it.
> 
> 
> 
> Zeev
> 
> 
> 
> *From:* guilhermeblanco@gmail.com [mailto:guilhermeblanco@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 18, 2014 7:58 AM
> *To:* Kris Craig
> *Cc:* Daniel Convissor; Ferenc Kovacs; Zeev Suraski; Nikita Popov; PHP
> Internals
> *Subject:* Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] [RFC] 2/3 vote needed (was: 64 bit platform
> improvements...)
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Let's reiterate this over... 66%+1 of voting members and not 66%+1 of core
> members. Is that right?
> 
> I really want this to be fixed, because Annotations for 66%+1 of voting
> members, but not of core member and it got rejected.
> 
> Just to make things sure... I don't wanna hear about meritocracy again.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Daniel Convissor <
> danielc@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>> Folks:
>> 
>>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>>> I think it still mandates a 66%+1 vote.
>> 
>> Agreed.  This is a major change.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> --Dan
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> 
> I agree that it should have been, but under the current language of the
> voting RFC, it can also be reasonably interpreted to call for a simple
> majority.  The RFC author chose to go with simple majority and left it
> there.  Trying to change the requirement mid-vote would be far more
> troubling, in my view.  Instead, we should discuss clarifying that language
> in the voting RFC so that the interpretation is not so subjective in the
> future.
> 
> --Kris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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