Re: voting without vcs accounts

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm not sure about it. AFAIK when I implemented my patch to restrict the > > voting to the vcs users + the voting wiki group, we lost that ability. > > (see > > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51932.htmlfor > > the history of that change) > > I don't see any indication there that community vote is not possible, > but if it was changed we can make community vote be available again. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51948.html Pierre said that it was a bug(better to say lack of restriction), that everybody with wiki account was able to vote, so I changed the voting plugin to only allow the specific groups(vcs + voting) to be able to vote. nobody asked that we would still need to keep the ability to create "open" votes where anybody can vote, so it wasn't implemented. > My point is that we are talking about some formal processes but I don't > see what would be the desired purpose of such processes. For release > process, it's releasing a stable code in time. For RFC, it is informing > people about proposed feature and getting it discussed and hopefully > accepted. Here, I'm not sure what is the goal. > To be able to get voting karma if you meet the requirements. without the need to bribe Hannes, Philip or any other wiki admin. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu