Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:12373 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68499 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Aug 2004 19:47:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66619 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2004 19:47:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mbobo.org) (213.133.123.182) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 2004 19:47:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mbobo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BFE574B12; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:47:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mbobo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (debian [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31989-10; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:47:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.200.1.55] (adsl-68-120-96-254.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [68.120.96.254]) by mail.mbobo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F496574B10; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <412E3E5D.7070802@apache.org> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:47:41 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Sebastian Bergmann , internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at mbobo.org Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process From: sterling@apache.org (Sterling Hughes) Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > >> At last weekend's EuroFoo [1] I attended Marc-Andre Lemburg's talk [2] >> on the Python development process. >> >> I really wish we had a process similar to Python's PEPs [3] [4] for PHP. >> >> Having guidelines for issues like adding a new module [5] or deprecating >> a module [6] not only makes the development consistent but also >> transparent to our users. >> >> > >It smells a little too processy to me, but I wouldn't mind a system that >borrowed some of the ideas. Like a single collection point for feature >proposals and a common format for them. We could simply steal PEAR's PEPR >infrastructure for this (http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-overview.php). > > It smells a bit too processy anyway you swing it, and maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any need: I'd like to see a problem before we attempt to fix it. -Sterling