Re: Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct

Just replying on the anonymous RFC votes side-topic. On 6 January 2016 at 20:26, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> wrote: > Le 06/01/2016 20:23, Andrea Faulds a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> Sara Golemon wrote: >> >>> So, I'm all for a mediation team, but no sanction, even temporary, >>>> without a >>>> public vote. >>>> >>>> I'm glad you and I agree on this. >>> >> >> There is the risk with public votes that whoever votes a particular way >> gets harassed for the way they voted. While this doesn't happen very >> much in technical discussions, I think there's a greater risk of that in >> a vote on whether to sanction a person for unacceptable behaviour. >> >> Thanks. >> >> That's another question. Ideally, votes should be anonymous, even on > RFCs. Scalar type hints have proved that seeing other's vote may be a very > bad thing. > This was tried once [1] and there was an immediate knee-jerk reaction [1] which resulted in quickly removing the feature. Maybe the winds have changed between then and now? [1] https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/1 [2] http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?7,848161 > > And you're right: for a sanctioning vote, votes *must* be anonymous. > > Regards > > François > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >