Yes, a soft fork means consensus (majority) among miners. The developers (of Geth, Parity, cpp-ethereum, etc.) can propose the changes, but it's up to the miners whether to adopt them.
Note that the Ethereum mining community is considerably more decentralized than e.g. Bitcoin.
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Yes, a soft fork means consensus (majority) among miners. The developers (of Geth, Parity, cpp-ethereum, etc.) can propose the changes, but it's up to the miners whether to adopt them.
Note that the Ethereum mining community is considerably more decentralized than e.g. Bitcoin.
Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, two mining pools control over 50% of the hash rate:
https://etherchain.org/statistics/miners
2/3 of the hashrate from three pools doesn't seem very decentralized.