Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:107081 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44322 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2019 17:21:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp3.php.net) (208.43.231.12) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2019 17:21:36 -0000 Received: from php-smtp3.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp3.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ACD22C8725 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:57:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp3.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-ASN: AS3215 2.0.0.0/16 X-Spam-Virus: No Received: from mail.gna.ch (www.gna.ch [IPv6:2001:8a8:21:3::1:80]) by php-smtp3.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.55] (77-56-180-37.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.56.180.37]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by darkcity.gna.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DCBF820A1D for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:57:42 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:57:42 +0200 References: To: PHP internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.11) X-Envelope-From: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Evolving PHP From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider) Am 13.09.2019 um 16:10 schrieb Rasmus Lerdorf : > The people writing the code get to call the shots, for better or = worse. There's some caveats with this: 1) What does "write the code" mean? What is the threshold when I can = take over a project? 2) With a bigger user-base there is also bigger responsibility. So = things are a bit different than 15 years ago. 3) PHP used to be more like Linus' "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!" = ("...without *major* benefit" in the PHP case) and I wonder when we = abandoned this maxim. - Chris