Re: [RFC][Discuss] Increase non-syntax runtime-impacting RFC voting threshold to 60%

Le 13/09/2017 à 22:42, Sara Golemon a écrit : > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rfc.voting-threshold > > This topic has come up on the mailing list a few times, so I'd like to > formally open the topic for discussion. > > I'm generally pretty liberal when it comes to allowing the PHP > language to evolve and explore its identity, but the truth is a > feature that has 30 people vote against it and 31 people vote in favor > of it is not a mandate by any stretch of the imagination. +1, such result show we fail to have a good consensus, and that ~50% will be unhappy. So indeed, having a higher threshold seems a good idea. Remi > It's an > opportunity to examine why a divide exists and if we're all being > honest with each other, improve the original idea before it becomes a > maintenance burden. > > Please note the "Open Question". I'm not all that sure 60% is enough > of a mandate either, but I wanted to be conservative in my > conservatism. If folks think 2/3 is more appropriate (and consistent > with syntax changes), I'm happy to change this number before we move > to voting phase. > > -Sara > > Or, as Ze'ev once famously said, "Give the language a rest". >

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