Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:52163 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78217 invoked from network); 9 May 2011 17:28:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 May 2011 17:28:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christopher.jones@oracle.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christopher.jones@oracle.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain oracle.com from 148.87.113.121 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christopher.jones@oracle.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 148.87.113.121 rcsinet10.oracle.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [148.87.113.121] ([148.87.113.121:27377] helo=rcsinet10.oracle.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 78/8C-20726-82428CD4 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:28:08 -0400 Received: from rtcsinet22.oracle.com (rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p49HS2Xc015722 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 May 2011 17:28:04 GMT Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by rtcsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p49HS1ak028169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 May 2011 17:28:02 GMT Received: from abhmt007.oracle.com (abhmt007.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p49HRuq6024625; Mon, 9 May 2011 12:27:56 -0500 Received: from [130.35.68.31] (/130.35.68.31) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:55 -0700 Message-ID: <4DC8241A.6060100@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:54 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net, Guilherme Blanco References: <4DC729EE.9090600@sugarcrm.com> <4DC75FFF.40008@lerdorf.com> <4DC7A7F0.4000504@sugarcrm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.4DC82424.021B:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones) On 05/09/2011 07:44 AM, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote: > It seems to me that you are not interested on user's request and > rather accept/implement only what the features that interest you. It's > very bad for the language and very bad for all of users. Rasmus & Stas have already pointed out this is not valid and lots of user requests are implemented. I'd add that PHP has never had a lot of spare developer capacity. Programmers are not idly sitting around, waiting for random ideas to code up. If you feel strongly about a feature you have to convince the core contributors of its merits and (i) pique the interest of someone capable of implementing it and then help with testing and documentation, or (ii) implement it all yourself. It's easier than ever to get an SVN account, so contributing would be a good way to get karma. Chris -- Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/