Hi,
About a month ago there was a discussion on the Engine 2 mailing list, about
a possible RFC-proces for the more imporant PHP-issues. In the end, there
was some consensus that it would be good if such a system exists.
I'm simply writing to get some comments, to hear what the general opinion
is. If that is not negative, I think it should be tried to set it up.
About the details, there needs to be discussion of course, but it would be
more efficient to discuss those things after a proposal has been made, in
stead of construct such a proposal by discussion.
Joey Smith and Zak Great supported the idea on the list, but the discussion
went dead. Below I quote some of their mails.
Regards,
Jeroen
Joey Smith wrote:
> Actually, I felt that the Perl 6 design process had a fairly good idea
> that was poorly implemented...that of RFC's. Anyone who wants to sponsor
> a feature compiles an RFC on it, and is resposible for keeping track of
> the discussion on it, and occasionally rolling the comments back into a
> new revision of the RFC.
>
> What do you guys think of something like this? We could even mark
> certain RFC's as "Dead for now", or something like, so that we can kill
> threads such as {}, and anyone who doubts the "deadness" of the thread
> can check the status of the RFC before commenting.
>
> One potential risk I see with this approach: Someone sponsors a certain
> RFC, goes through much time and trouble to track and merge discussion,
> only to have it "killed" somewhere down the road by the others. This
> could possibly lead to the kinds of flare-ups that occur from
> time-to-time on php-dev...
Zak wrote:
> That sounds like a very good idea. We spend a good deal of time going
> around.
> The RFC process should have a series of significant benefits:
>
> a.) Less digging through old mail to figure out what was said
>
> b.) The sponsor must be serious
>
> c.) The process of writing an RFC will encourage the sponsor to consider
the
> feature more carefully
>
> d.) The RFCs will provide a form that can easily be archived.
>
> --zak
Zak wrote again:
> Has anyone else had a chance to think about this proposal?
>
> I think that it is a solid idea.
>
> As Joey points out, it might help prevent the pointless go-rounds
> that have been occurring with this discussion *and* would give us a
> clear set of documents to refer to in the future.
>
> --zak
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