Brion-
Anyway, I apologize for venting, but I would continue to argue that the way these polls are presented makes them seem more official, binding, or important than they really are (or, I think, than you intend them to be)
Possible. Votes on Wikipedia are typically about what people *should not* do and never about what they *must* do. I thought that it was clear to everyone that we cannot vote on what volunteers must do. If that is not so, maybe we need to clarify it next time.
However, the group of developers is not simply one person. They are bound by a consensus process, and that process is in turn informed by prior community votes. If we, as developers, decide in consensus that the community decision is bogus, then it will of course not be implemented. However, I did my best to moderate the poll beforehand to filter out options that were clearly not useful from a technical POV.
So if your committed a patch tomorrow to use an extension syntax different from the one we voted on, I would expect you to explain yourself, and if I disagree with it, I would revert the change or, if the option is sufficiently different from the previous ones, start a new vote.
This developer/user distinction is less applicable, or not applicable, where the burden on the developer is minimal or non-existent (turn off that option, set up that logo, implement that policy). But again, anyone could refuse to do anything, the problems would begin when they do something that goes directly against the result of a reasonably representative vote without reaching consensus among all relevant participants to do so.
Regards,
Erik