Re: Voting irregularities

On 15/03/2015 20:30, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing this: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB

Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the proliferation of PHP? How can you bring yourself to say he has no clue? It's fine that you disagree with him, but saying he has no clue is offensive. Let's also not pretend there hasn't been countless calls by the RFC supporters to vote Yes, including ones that pretend there's no problem here and it's good for everyone. If Kristian's position is FUD, so is that. Zeev,

I agree that Kristian might have played a part in the proliferation of PHP, but shouldn't we consider not only creating a clearer set of guidelines as to who receives voting karma, but also what the conditions are for keeping voting karma ? Otherwise in 10 years time we'll have 250 people with voting karma, 150 of them for writing documentation or submitting a single patch 20 years ago. If at that point a critical RFC requires voting, those 150 people could seriously skew the result and their votes would in some cases be completely opposite to what the majority of active users would want. Maybe this is a good topic for an unconference round table discussion at one of the next conferences... Just my 2 non-karma cents... Wim