Re: [VOTE][RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP

On 20 Jul 2014, at 22:28, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > After the vote has been started the RFC was edited by Zeev in order to strengthen the case for > PHP 7. There is nothing wrong with that, adding additional arguments to an RFC is perfectly fine by > me. > > However at the same time a number of paragraphs were removed that were arguing for PHP 6, at > least in part. The only thing that was left in "The case for PHP 6" was a single > paragraph, of which half was really just an explanation of the general situation. > > Effectively the edits made the RFC text heavily biased. It's okay to edit an RFC to add > arguments for your side, but I find it discourteous and disingenuous to remove arguments from the > opposing side at the same time. > > As such I can understand Andrea's decision to close this vote until tempers had time to > cool down and both sides had a chance to be fairly represented. It also wasn’t really fair of me to start a vote when there wasn’t really a case for 7, now that I think about it. I suppose that makes my later decision hypocritical, but it does mean we’re in a better place now when we have a second vote, as we have two cases. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/