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

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Andrey Andreev wrote: > 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. There is a big difference between votes, and voices. Voices should definitely be listened too. Derick