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

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > 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. That would be quite unfair, not just because of BC breaks and/or userland developers' votes (there aren't many, afaik). Practically every language change would be decided by only a handful of people, while it should be important that many votes are gathered for important decisions. Cheers, Andrey.