Re: Should we rethink the 50%+1 requirement fornon-"language changes"?

Hi Jakub, Jakub Zelenka wrote:

On 30 Jan 2016 17:35, "Andrea Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

Hi everyone, The vote on the OpenSSL AEAD RFC[1] has made me question our current RFC

process again. Under the Voting RFC[2], "Language changes" (in practice, changes to syntax and semantics) require at least a 2/3 majority to pass when they come to a vote, whereas changes that don't fall under that category require a mere plurality of more Yes votes than No votes, aka "50%+1".

FYI the OpenSSL AEAD RFC passed 2/3 majority so not sure why it made you question our RFC process... :)

I went and checked again, and it didn't pass by 2/3. It got 7 votes in favour and 4 against. To have passed by 2/3, the number of Yes votes would need to be at least double the number of No votes, but the vote totals didn't meet that. 7:4 is 63.6%, less than 66.6%. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/