Re: Voting irregularities

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> wrote: > On 15/03/2015 22:27, Derick Rethans wrote: >> >> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, 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? >> >> >> I certainly know who he is. I've been around as nearly as long as you've >> been. Anybody who's only argument is "You're turning PHP into Java" and >> basically says "we need four more against votes" has no clue. I don't >> care who says it. > > > I agree that past good deeds and contributions should not be a free pass for > bad behavior. Not going to discuss the example at hand, but I think it's > dangerous to say "it's ok he did good in the past". I cannot agree more. I deeply respect Kristian, in all possible manners. However, I never call to vote for a given RFC but state what I think and let people make their own choice. Big names, all relative, have a social responsibility when it comes to ask people to vote for or against a given features. Big names backed by companies even more, even if something is done on a private manner. We have to be extremely careful on that. And "we" include myself. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org