Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60668 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31144 invoked from network); 23 May 2012 09:48:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 May 2012 09:48:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ml@anderiasch.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ml@anderiasch.de; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain anderiasch.de from 81.169.138.148 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ml@anderiasch.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 81.169.138.148 ares.art-core.org Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [81.169.138.148] ([81.169.138.148:39169] helo=mail.anderiasch.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2E/25-02922-772BCBF4 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 05:48:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBCB273.9040703@anderiasch.de> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:48:35 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Joye CC: lijiu zhang , internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP governance question? From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch) On 05/18/2012 01:01 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: >> I am doing a study report about PHP, could anyone tell PHP governance? Such >> as, who is project manager, package manager, how php make a decision? > > There are package leaders in pecl, http://pecl.php.net or extensions > authors/maintainers, see the CREDITS file in the php sources. It might be worth mentioning that PHP doesn't have a governing body (like the Python Software Software, PSF) in the background, only the PHP Group (see phpinfo() -> Credits or what Pierre said) - but with different goals (someone else might want to step in to clarify). Greetings, Florian