> > I know I’m not a “project leader” for any of the handful large PHP > projects. I also know that I am far from the “top 1000 best developers” > list. But I know that there are not many people (if any) that have a larger > impact of user-land PHP right now. > > (I do acknowledge that there are people with more impact over the Symfony > community, the Laravel community, or the cool async community etc.) > > The only thing I’m asking for is to be among those 1000+ people that can > vote on the language’s future. > > // Tobias >
There was a discussion a year ago <https://externals.io/message/107460#107465> about giving userland library maintainers the right to do a semi-official vote, that would be non-binding as far as the RFC is concerned, but would give people with RFC vote karma a good idea of what the most influential userland library maintainers think of a change in the language, so that they can take this variable into account prior to voting themselves. As a library author with 4 million downloads per month, it also crossed my mind to request a right to vote on RFCs, but given previous discussions on the topic, I understood that core maintainers are reluctant to give voting rights to userland developers, whatever their influence, so I've restrained myself from doing so so far. I do understand the concern from core maintainers that if people voting on RFCs are not the ones getting their hands dirty maintaining the codebase, it can quickly become an issue. I would, however, strongly advise core maintainers to consider the idea of performing an "official" library maintainers vote before the actual vote takes place. At the end of the day, we'll be the ones maintaining libraries that use these new PHP features, that will have to provide compatibility for multiple versions of PHP, etc. It would be nice if we could at least formally give our opinion on each individual RFC. Yes, we can do so via the mailing list, but this is just one message lost in the middle of a usually verbose discussion, which is often discouraging to say the least. — Benjamin
