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Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:22:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] about the latest frontpage entry
From: phoenix@jonstirling.co.uk (Jonny Stirling)

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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:43 PM, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com <
guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can we please have an RFC around it, vote and then you guys can announce
> wildly on php.net?
> I feel really frustrated that a main article on php.net frontpage
> proclaims
> that next PHP will have something that haven't even been voted internally.
> Otherwise, anyone with website karma can post a new feature support (even
> though it was not yet voted) and we'll have to deal with the situation
> later if it gets rejected.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
First off, I don't see anywhere in the post that specifies this is going to
be in PHP.next or otherwise unlike other posts around the internet which
are filled with inaccuracies. Others have said it is opinionated, but I
would suspect that's Joe's way of trying to make the post seem up-beat.

Was it the wrong place to post? Maybe. Was there a better alternative.....
possibly not.

Saying that, the language used in the post was perhaps a little on the lax
side, but it was approved not by an individual, but by a group of what I
can only assume were the relevant people, so discussing it now and
retrospectively saying it's "unprofessional" is a bit late, but perhaps can
end up being useful.

As for the idea of an RFC. This seems a completely over-the-top solution
for a relatively minor issue. In the long run, PHPNG and the work being
done in and around the place are arguably news worthy and as above, the
post was apparently reviewed. On top of that, there appear to have been
legitimate reasons for publishing the off-norm posting on php.net.

Now, a possible solution to this. Simple. A separate blog (whatever the URL
may be). From what I can tell, Joe has already brought this up and
potentially volunteered to deal with it(?) and if so, great, I hope he's
still interested in going forward with it after this morning.

Internals as it stands is not a public friendly place to try and keep up
with what's going on inside of PHP (see this thread), so this idea gives,
in particular, userland developers, the ability to keep up-to-date without
having to jump through hoops to get onto / read the mailing list and then
have to parse out an awful lot of noise to work out what's going on. While
this may not be an issue for internals developers, I'm sure people who
aren't would certainly be interested in reading this kind of information.

Probably a little over my 2 cents worth of bikeshedding, but hopefully of
relevance.

Jonny

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