Re: [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes

Afternoon Nikita, My mistake, changing that ... Cheers Joe On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >