Re: [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote: > Afternoon internals, > > This has been discussed before in various RFC threads, there does seem to > be some consensus that 50%+1 votes could be harmful. > > To what degree, I am not sure. > > I raise for discussion the topic of abolishing 50%+1 votes, and requiring > all changes regardless of their nature to pass by a super majority of > 2/3+1. > > Please read the (brief) RFC and raise objections here. > > There will be a one week discussion period for this RFC. > > Cheers > Joe > A technical note: The existing supermajority requirement is >= 2/3, not >= 2/3+1. I think that should stay the same. Apart from that, I totally agree that everything should take a 2/3 majority. It simplifies the rules and avoids the common and very pointless discussion about what exactly constitutes a "language change". I have the vague impression that this issue has come up on pretty much every major RFC (like phpng -- Is it really a language change if it's just internals? Similar for int size changes. Similar for PHP 6 vs 7, etc.) Nikita