Hello, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are not talking about giving a voice to totally irrelevant people > but well known PHP project leaders, who already contribute to PHP in > one way or another. We are not either talking about them telling us > what to implement, or what to do next. That won't change and did not > change for what we have done in the past, as you can see in 5.4.0. >
I would like to chime in by saying pretty much anyone who posts to this list is taking time out of there schedule and if the feedback is constructive, that person is relevant. If they own a fortune 500 company, or are a jr developer for a small startup, they are surely providing feedback that is valuable to the PHP Group and to introduce a method of measurement of a voices worth is only going to further widen the communication gap we have seen in the past; that has recently seen small measures of improvement. I think voting on features shouldn't be so cut and dry as it is looked at now. Really there should be two parts, first each person who responds to this list should count towards measuring the php communitys desire for a given proposal. That is really the only way give PHP the community feeling you would expect from a open source project, this will also provide people with motivation for contributing what just may be PHP's next best thing. The second part is adoption and implementation, it isn't fair or even possible to implement every feature that has overwhelming community support, so a core contributors sponsorship is required, this is basically what we already see now for most things. By what I am reading, we are just cutting out the community voice through arbitrary measures of importance. The long story short, start nit picking the importance of community feedback and I see it having a negative impact on PHP. The last thing I want to do is see people start sending resumes to the list to have there votes count. -Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
