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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team
From: ron@Opus1.COM (Ronald Chmara)


On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

> Hannes Magnusson schrieb:
>> Speaking of "QA people", how about crediting those who are actually
>> working on QA and removing the names who haven't been around for  
>> years
>> (I don't even recognized most of those names)?
>
>  How do you recommend measuring who deserves credit?

Who recommends (and how do they recommend) credit for PHP core?
Who recommends (and how do they recommend) credit for PHP extensions?
Who recommends (and how do they recommend) credit for PHP documentation?
Who recommends (and how do they recommend) credit for PHP notes?
Who recommends (and how do they recommend) credit for PHP QA?

One thing that does bother me about Hannes's suggestion is the  
implication that somebody who worked on PHP for 3 years is less  
important than somebody who worked on PHP for a year or so, but they  
did so *very recently*.

We all stand on the shoulders of others.

+1 on adding names.
-1 on removing names.

The PHP project has 2,000+ authors. Some are well known "rockstars",  
others are virtually unknown.

-Bop