Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60496 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 4791 invoked from network); 6 May 2012 16:00:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 May 2012 16:00:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rasmus@lerdorf.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rasmus@lerdorf.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lerdorf.com from 209.85.216.42 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.216.42 mail-qa0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.216.42] ([209.85.216.42:36006] helo=mail-qa0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A1/10-03703-230A6AF4 for ; Sun, 06 May 2012 12:00:50 -0400 Received: by qafi31 with SMTP id i31so2081366qaf.8 for ; Sun, 06 May 2012 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=Y/wRQZgnLRcej+MWEPHQteJOzGieLNg0UmrX1KBaT9o=; b=oo4i6KJUq5ngyoa1WPNjFB5HV3qwgI5v9ndNFQ2Vp6rgAQ2thmJB9vQQE5DyPGFtKf CImvdzfbst1jxTiCzLdd7TLD+J83Vkd/5+BpslkQi5VlWZQTf1h+XlRfSVBjkEeWW6Et SDRm0YJQxkOJ8ICDexivV86NfdnfRnJk3wIw32ChFL60ZaAfPK759J+ksxJJk335Ahxf 1djEaAxJS8f3R2iLHIntu++Goyif7YjrMkbErE2XHG/+bcInNrIY69Pc4HD0uxaG7Se3 wTat9x1depkIOSTI7a24Xm7k/oqyyAJubRZ7kynKKvia39oO+OR2rFXGnxzmfzNFH2j5 LKdA== Received: by 10.229.135.78 with SMTP id m14mr6221604qct.129.1336320047047; Sun, 06 May 2012 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.200.5] (c-50-131-44-225.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [50.131.44.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bm15sm27746907qab.17.2012.05.06.09.00.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 May 2012 09:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FA6A02C.9090900@lerdorf.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 09:00:44 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitri Dmitrison CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <4FA68CCE.6050001@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlxKxyHWBTUDkpiZ7VQ298EOUa1iUk3FpK6YPYteMSYBdN/QIZy6TAQe7hI1TSpuOCQHiuw Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Are feature request bugs ever looked at? From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) On 05/06/2012 08:23 AM, Dmitri Dmitrison wrote: > That is actually a promising statistic. > > However, is there a predictable process for picking some requests over others? > If it's based on whether it resonated with the PHP dev who happened to > look at it, why even have a voting feature (and suggest that it > somehow affects the bug's priority)? > I understand this is a free software project, and that resources are > limited. And that you can't force contributors to work on features > they don't personally like. > But I would have expected the bugs with hundreds of votes and/or > comments to be inspected first... Or at least after 10 years... Am I > being unreasonable? Most questions in this vein draw this magic line in the sand between developers and users. The truth is that this is a completely mythical line. Everybody is a developer, some just have more experience than others. A feature request that is interesting enough should eventually take care of itself because someone out there will write a decent implementation and, if the feature is big enough, an accompanying RFC. -Rasmus