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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] My musings on problems I've had with the PHP community
From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal)

On 15.10.2007 23:16, Bill Moran wrote:
> But you're confirming something I theorized ... there _is_ something wrong
> with the PHP community.  If contributors like yourself have become so
> frustrated with the users that they don't want to be involved, there is
> a REAL problem.

You misunderstood what I said. 
I'm still involved and I'm not going to leave the development.

But I do not respond to the reports that are not directly related to the extensions 
I maintain. And one of the reasons is users like you.

> I expect that this sort of frustration on the part of developers leads to
> exacerbated frustration on the part of the users, which leads to more
> frustration on the part of developers ... and so on and so on in an
> endless loop.

So you decided to help us with that and wrote a nice blog post telling how 
evil PHP developers made you to wait for two weeks, right?

> So, I'm not sure I have any suggestions.  Looks like PHP is a tough project
> to be a part of.

Well, I do have one. Please do something more useful. Thanks.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal