Re: Is it fair that people with no karma can vote on RFCs?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:28:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is it fair that people with no karma can vote on RFCs? | ||
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Andrea Faulds 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.
Breaking BC should never happen anyway.
cheers,
Derick