Re: Is it fair that people with no karma can vote on RFCs?

On 22 Sep 2014, at 12:32, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote: > >> Perhaps I’m being unfair and overthinking things, but I wonder if it >> is really fair for people who have no karma, i.e. not contributors to >> the documentation, extensions, php-src or anything else, to have the >> ability to vote on RFCs? >> >> I’d never suggest people without internals karma can’t vote. I think >> doc and peck contributors are as valued as any other contributors. >> However, people with no karma whatsoever (a blank people.php.net page) >> voting irks me. > > I think people's votes should only count if they have karma to the > section of the code that the RFC/feature/whatever relates to. Is that really fair? If we break BC, plenty of userland developers might be affected and they should have a right to chime in. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/