Re: Community vote on RFCs
| From: | Ben Ramsey | Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:35:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Community vote on RFCs | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> On Aug 19, 2020, at 17:33, Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 19, 2020, at 17:19, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There’s nothing stopping anyone from doing this right now. :-)
>>
>> Actually there is: without a link to the poll in the RFC itself, the poll would probably
>> not get enough visibility to be useful.
>
>
> I don’t think the RFC should include a link to the poll. This makes the poll an official
> artifact of the PHP project.
>
> I do think you should link to the poll in the discussion thread for the RFC on internals. This
> way, voters can use it as information to inform their decision. RFC authors can also take the
> information into account to discuss certain topics in an RFC they may have overlooked or left out.
To be clear, this kind of feedback needs to take place during the discussion period. A poll that
takes place during the voting period can’t have any impact on the direction of the RFC.
Cheers,
Ben
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