Re: Community vote on RFCs

-1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:28 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi internals, > > The heated debate about attribute syntax made me think once again that it > would be valuable to get feedback in the form of votes from the community, > not just from core developers, on RFCs under discussion. > > Understandably, the RFC voting process needs to be restricted to carefully > selected people, mostly core developers. But the fact is, this process is a > bit elitist, and fails to represent the community as a whole. A recent > thread <https://externals.io/message/111552> showed that > even very active > contributors to OSS are unlikely to ever get a vote. > > A project being nothing without its users, it would be nice to know whether > an important change will make them happy or not. > > Therefore, I have in mind to develop (time permitting) an experimental > tool, external to the PHP wiki, that would replicate the voting options of > each RFC, but would allow everyone with a GitHub account to vote on the > same options as the original RFC. While the vote results would not directly > affect the wiki's vote results, I guess that this community feedback could > be taken into consideration by wiki voters and help them make an informed > decision. > > To be useful, a link to the community voting site would need to be present > in each RFC, ideally some time before the actual voting starts on the wiki. > > If popular enough, this tool could offer some analysis capabilities, such > as "what's the vote results from people having at least 100 commits to the > top 1000 packagist projects in the last year?" to help filter out the noise. > > Thoughts? > > Kind regards, > Benjamin