Re: [VOTE] Exceptions in the engine

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> There's nothing that prevents us from reneging on that by another >> vote. If it's a bad decision backed by logical arguments then we can > > That's a pretty big if, given that your only argument - that it is a BC > break - is incorrect, as in fact the set of exceptions caught before and > after change is exactly the same, and the only difference is that in the > new code, you can *also* catch errors, the option that you didn't have > before. Absent that argument, there's no reason to renege. > >> overturn it. Also note that *barely* passes at 67%. That is hardly a >> landslide conclusion. > > We're going the dangerous road here. I agree that decision taken can be > overridden if we find out it was bad decision, and that can - and > eventually will - happen. However, re-opening decision immediately after > it was agreed, without any new facts or anything changes, leads to much > worse outcomes, as with this pattern we will never be able to decide > anything as long as there is at least some small set of people that > disagree. Voting is a means of establishing common goals while having > disagreements, and a means of moving the project forward without being > blocked by each disagreement. I say this as somebody who lost my share > of votes and still disagreeing with some decisions taken, but re-opening > them immediately after taking them is worse. The key is that I feel like the voting body wasn't well informed. It's not because I lost; rather it's because I feel like the people voting yes didn't actually understand the issues at play. There is a big difference between that and revoting after a vote didn't go my way as an effort to try again.