RE: [PHP-DEV] RFC votes no longer visible
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:41:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] RFC votes no longer visible | ||
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I agree with Nikita. I don't think we should be hiding anything here, not
who voted and not how they voted. I admit that in some cases I do care
about how certain others vote, but it doesn't make me cattle :)
Zeev
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikita Popov [mailto:nikita.ppv@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 6:24 PM
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] RFC votes no longer visible
>
> Hi folks!
>
> Recently a change was committed [1] that no longer displays votes on
active
> RFCs. I think this would have merited discussion beforehand, so I'm
starting
> that discussion now.
>
> I can see where this comes from (avoid herd effect?), but I don't think
it's a
> good idea. I can't even see votes on my own RFCs, so I don't know how
> things are going and if there are still issues. Also this prevents the
"vote
> reason" column that was suggested in several recent discussions. That
would
> seem like a much more valuable change than just removing the votes.
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>
> [1]:
>
> http://git.php.net/?p=web/wiki.git;a=commit;h=2c8876d460f8731afffcaa9d8
> 3f50da535616a0e