Re: Voting on PHP features

From: Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:12:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Voting on PHP features
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Unfortunately my experience with that process has been that many people will vote who had no part in the discussion. On 3/16/2013 3:16 PM, Sherif Ramadan wrote:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Sébastien Durand <se8.and@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys, *I think it could be a nice little improvement to add an extra form field (*160 chars max),* that would let users quickly comment on why they voted "yes" or "no".* * * *It would help having a better sense of what's going on and** to understand why this proposed feature is a good language design or not, without having to review countless messages on the mailing list.* * *
I'm pretty sure that's the purpose of the discussion stage is before a feature is put to a vote. The purpose of the vote should be pure and simple. Yay or Nay.
*My two cents,* * * *Sébastien*
-- -Clint

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