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Subject: RFCs and organisation
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds)

Hi there,

First off I'd like to apologise for being a generally useless and overly 
reactive poster on this list. I'm going to exercise more self-constraint 
now after noticing I made more posts on this list this month than anyone 
else, this month.

Anyway, onto the subject of this email, in which I will try to be at 
least somewhat helpful.

I notice that the RFCs page (http://wiki.php.net/rfc) doesn't seem to 
have any clear instructions on how to create an RFC. I think someone 
(perhaps me) should write an RFC on how to write an RFC, and also the 
procedure involved, e.g. how to get wiki karma, voting process.

Secondly, I noticed that Python's PEPs are numbered, unlike PHP's RFCs. 
Whilst they aren't quite the same thing, I wonder if this would be 
useful, particularly since it provides a simple and unambiguous way to 
refer to one, e.g. RFC 123 instead of "RFC on how to write an RFC". Plus 
it would provide for an obvious way to sort RFCs in a list, by number. 
At the moment I'm not really sure if there's an sort of sorting on the 
RFCs page, although RFCs certainly seem to be categorised.

Thoughts?

Apologies again,
Andrew Faulds

http://ajf.me/