<p>As I think I've already said whether or not we do something is not really a question of whether you can scare up enough sock puppets to vote "yes" on a feature.</p>
<p>Aside from the fact that designing any sort of software that way is a recipe for a disaster as everybody fights to get their favourite oddball feature in with no way that anybody can say "no" if they can win a vote how exactly do you propose to determine who is eligible to vote? and then to notify them that a vote is in progress?</p>
<p>A vote only makes sense if there is a defined electorate and a way of notifying them when a vote is in progress - otherwise it becomes a self selecting poll where the person who can persuade enough people to come and vote will win.</p>
<p>Normally in a software project that "electorate" is the set of maintainers/committers or similar. In this case that is quite a small set - basically <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=360803" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/gravitystorm">@gravitystorm</a> and me currently.</p>

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