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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:33 AM
>To: Andi Gutmans
>Cc: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)
>
>On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:
>
>> Hence my suggestion to bundle MongoDB extension and possibly work on
>additional extensions. Some of my suggestions probably rightfully didn't g=
et
>much interest such as Thrift.
>
>See my comment in your other thread and below.
>
>> Maybe we should consider making a list of extensions we think could be
>beneficial and the new mentorship program can actually help deliver some o=
f
>them?
>
>I do not thnk it is a good thing to begin a discussion about this exact to=
pic and
>then totally ignore it.
>

I think it got lost in the very long and varying discussions. Will dig up a=
nd take a look. I had a couple of hectic weeks.

>I also think that it is somehow wrong to post something asking to do not p=
ropose
>new things when we finally have more people involved in proposals and
>discussions. Maybe that's just me me but I do think that the main problem =
we
>have (besides the ones we identified and try to fix right now) is the comp=
lete
>lack of open discussions about possible new features, in this list with ne=
w or
>existing contributors.

I did not say we should not propose or have discussions (I am in favor of a=
dding [] for arrays for example). But I am saying the bias should be not to=
 include new language functionality unless it has very broad appeal & serio=
us upside impact. The bias should be against feature creep.

Andi

>
>--
>Pierre
>
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