Re: [RFC] Abolish 50%+1 Votes

2016-11-17 13:18 GMT-04:00 Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>: > 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 > > Hi Joe, I fully support the change to always require super majority on all votings. Sometimes RFCs don't contain a language change (by the criteria defined on our wiki) but can contain BC breaks. I used to believe the RFC authors would have the sensibility to always raise the bar higher in these cases, but it's much better to change the system to enforce super majority IMMO. About the requests to have 75%+1 votes, I believe raising the bar too high could be damaging when entering a new major release in the future. But perhaps RFC authors that stand for 75%+1 voting could propose RFCs with that ratio instead of 2/3+1 if they think it's necessary. PS: I wonder if the voting to change the process to always require 2/3+1 will be a 50%+1 poll? :P Ty, Márcio Almada.