Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Implement missing SQLite feature "openBlob" in PDO

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:11:18 +0000 / Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> said : > On 30/10/2017 03:14, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > > The vote for this should have ended......3 days ago. > > > > At which point I believe the vote was actually passing. > > > Hm, that's awkward! > > For the record: > > - voting was announced on the evening of the 9th "for two weeks" > which would imply the evening of the 23rd > - however, the e-mail also said "Vote will end on Wednesday the 25th > of October. " Don't know where that 9th is from? I posted my email around 11 am on Tusday October 10th, so +2 weeks is Tuesday October 24th, but I thought it would close at midnight, so on the 25th :) > - the wiki page states "Vote closing on Oct 27, 2017." My bad there, sorry, I counted two weeks from when someone told me to put the date on the wiki (which I forgot to do). > - https://php-rfc-watch.beberlei.de/ lists > "daverandom" voting No at > 2017-10-28T07:28:00+0000 (*mutters something about relative date > display being uselessly vague*) > > It's possible that daverandom was several hours west of Greenwich at > the time (e.g. in North America), where it was still late on October > 27th. So taking the latest of the three published closing dates, and > applying the most generous time zone, it's possible that all the > votes were valid. Ah yeah didn't thought of that, but I'm in NZ, so the dates I talked about were UTC+13. > In my opinion, the very fact that it was this close suggests that > there is not consensus in favour of the change, and therefore it > would be reasonable to err on the side of caution, and not adopt the > change. Agreed.