>-----Original Message----- >From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:33 AM >To: Andi Gutmans >Cc: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) > >On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Andi Gutmans <a...@zend.com> wrote: > >> Hence my suggestion to bundle MongoDB extension and possibly work on >additional extensions. Some of my suggestions probably rightfully didn't get >much interest such as Thrift. > >See my comment in your other thread and below. > >> Maybe we should consider making a list of extensions we think could be >beneficial and the new mentorship program can actually help deliver some of >them? > >I do not thnk it is a good thing to begin a discussion about this exact topic >and >then totally ignore it. >
I think it got lost in the very long and varying discussions. Will dig up and take a look. I had a couple of hectic weeks. >I also think that it is somehow wrong to post something asking to do not >propose >new things when we finally have more people involved in proposals and >discussions. Maybe that's just me me but I do think that the main problem we >have (besides the ones we identified and try to fix right now) is the complete >lack of open discussions about possible new features, in this list with new or >existing contributors. I did not say we should not propose or have discussions (I am in favor of adding [] for arrays for example). But I am saying the bias should be not to include new language functionality unless it has very broad appeal & serious upside impact. The bias should be against feature creep. Andi > >-- >Pierre > >@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
