Re: Re: [VOTE]Call for voting: support use list in foreach
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:23:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [VOTE]Call for voting: support use list in foreach | ||
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> > And this is how democracy works, Stas. If voters don't bother to
> > turn up, too bad.
>
> Putting aside the fact that democracy has very little to do with what
> we're trying to do here (we're not government, we're opensource
> project), that's how democracy *doesn't work*. As you noticed, it is
> "too bad", and it is exactly the problem we're having - without
> participation, votes are decided by a random sample of whoever
> bothered to appear, often on a single vote.
>
> This is not a way to build consensus. It is a very unhealthy state of
> things, and it only contributes to the image of PHP as a project
> having no direction, no governance and basically existing in a state
> of brownian motion. I thought we were trying to shed this image.
I very much agree with this.
cheers,
Derick