On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rasmus, > > Now do 5 or even 10+ years and commits to Zend and APC. We are talking >> about a core language feature here, so commits to the code most affected >> is what you should be looking at and when I talk about maintenance I >> talk about code we are fixing 10 years from now. Commits in the past >> year doesn't really reflect that very well. >> > > True, but if someone hasn't been active with even a single commit in the > past year, I don't think they should be counted as an active maintainer. > > I ran the numbers back to 2011. And they actually shift more towards Yes: > Total Commits: > No: 2011 > Yes: 1877 > > All but top 2: > No: 996 > Yes: 1011 > > And for 2010 (past 3 years): > No: 2455 > Yes: 2395 > > All but top 2: > No: 1440 > Yes: 1028 > > This is pointless though. The point is pretty well proven that within > reason the activity level of both groups is about even. > > And when measuring a feature against "number of maintainers", I honestly > believe that only current active maintainers should count for that ranking. > It's not about "discrediting" prior contributors. Not in the least. I'm not > suggesting their votes should count less. I'm not suggesting that they > should lose voting rights or anything like that. But to count active > maintainers against a list which contains people who's last commit was in > 2006 isn't fair. > > Anthony
Why are you people so conservative in adding this feature? The vote was going very well, but right now i really doubt this will make it in PHP 5.5... I would like to see this feature get in. So please, be a bit less conservative. If there is so much conservatism then please make a userland poll perhaps on php.net to ask the php devs (from userland) if they'd like this feature. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
