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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP User Survey
From: cpriest@zerocue.com (Clint Priest)


On 2/20/2013 2:35 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> My thesis is the other way round.  More people in the community need
> to become PHP core developers.  This is historically how PHP
> development has occurred, since nobody has idle time to adopt projects
> they are not 100% behind.
>
> Increasing user involvement is easier (and more often) said than done.
> I'd prefer to see effort spent mentoring, rather than running surveys.
>
I've suggested this very thing in the past and even with a framework 
(albeit only in an email thread), I think a mentoring program of sorts 
would really benefit the core team.

It could even be kept in small groups where 1 mentor dedicates to answer 
and/or find the answer for a group of 1 to 2 people who are keen on 
learning to help with the core.

I would think that a separate mailing list for this type of mentorship 
would probably make sense, just to keep the chaffe off the internals 
list to a minimum.

It would take some (at least 1) of the current core developers to step 
up and commit to helping.  I ran into a lot of trouble learning what I 
know about the core and most of the tough question I had went unanswered 
for one reason or another, was quite infuriating at the time.

> I do have a lot of reservations about a survey.  But if you do run
> one, I'm sure I'll look at the results.
>

-- 
-Clint