Re: I quit.

Hey Rowan, > On 15 Feb 2015, at 22:07, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm really really sorry to hear this. The energy you've put into the project recently > has been really appreciated by many people, and I really admire your dedication to finding > compromises to controversial topics. I can see, though, that it takes a lot of time to be that > actively involved on a voluntary basis, and that a clean break might feel necessary to shift your > focus. I hope to see your name in future, either in a less involved role in PHP, or in some other > project. Thank you. > On a purely procedural note, though, is there some way the Scalar Type Hints RFC can be left in > voting, as a vote in principle, while we wait for someone to step up and take over the > implementation? There are only 4 days left, and with over 100 votes cast, it seems a shame to say > that they were all meaningless, while leaving the door open to start all over again. I think it will > hurt people's faith in the process to cancel now, and can't think of a particularly strong > reason not to let the vote run its course before deciding what to do next. It might be for the best that we don’t keep it in voting. During the voting process, it became apparent that the declare() syntax (with all its idiosyncrasies) was a big problem (influencing at least 3 people’s votes), so much so that I decided that I’d make a follow-up RFC to fix it after voting ended, to avoid having to cancel the vote. Now that voting’s cancelled, that could be fixed properly if someone revived the RFC. I think the vote totals still make a statement. The vote may have ended 4 days early, but it’s only 1 vote short of a 2/3 majority. I’m not sure, really. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/