Re: Re: Voting Process (was: [PHP-DEV] Re: Voting does not belong on the wiki! (Was: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 moving forward))

On 2011-06-06, Chad Fulton <chadfulton@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I would advocate a "white list" of core devs for formal voting (of > which, for example, I would not be a member). I think this mailing > list has grown sufficiently that "public opinion" can be gauged from > here: everyone can write their opinion without giving them voting > privileges. > > If you haven't already, I recommend you read the (incredibly long) > discussions from last summer on type-hinting. They convinced me that > sometimes a feature that sounds good is simply not a good fit for PHP > for reasons which many did not (still do not?) understand. I think your analysis is great. That said, I think if this is the route ultimately taken, any time an RFC is voted out, a summary of the _technical_ reasons for denying it should be provided. Usually there are very good ones -- but this information can be invaluable to anybody who may want to ressurect the RFC in the future to ensure they don't hit the same pitfalls. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc