Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Hannes Magnusson schrieb: Speaking of QA people, how about crediting those who are actually working on QA and removing the names who haven't been around for years (I don't even recognized most of those names)? How do you recommend measuring who deserves credit? -- Sebastian Bergmann

Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 13:16, Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannes Magnusson schrieb: Speaking of QA people, how about crediting those who are actually working on QA and removing the names who haven't been around for years (I don't even recognized most of those names)? How do

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Pierre Joye
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Hannes Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 13:16, Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannes Magnusson schrieb: Speaking of QA people, how about crediting those who are actually working on QA and removing the names who haven't

Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Jani Taskinen
Hannes Magnusson wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 13:16, Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannes Magnusson schrieb: Speaking of QA people, how about crediting those who are actually working on QA and removing the names who haven't been around for years (I don't even recognized most of

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 14:54, Pierre Joye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's about Sanjay Mantoor, Feliix dV or all the other test fest attendees continuing their work after the end of the test fest? Sure, after having proven themselves to be worth it for some period of time, not like the ones

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Hannes Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My end-goal here is to face the facts: Quality assurance is about testing, providing builds for people to test on, look into bugs and everything along those lines. snaps.php.net,

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 14:54 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote: I'm not sure I like the idea of a strong credits page, it creates ego related issues which are not helping. A general page with the list of the QA contributors or coordinators (@Zoe, dictactor-like ;) would be better and more flexible. I'm

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-10-31 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Hi I have tried to collect the various opinions on resolution order into a single RFC: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceresolution Proactive damage control: I have also included some discussion on how the removable of function/ constants would affect the question of namespace resolution

[PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Hi, So some core developers as well as lurking end users have noted that the traffic on this list prevents them from being able to follow this list. This is obviously a huge problem since this mailinglist is supposed to be our primary discussion and decision making tool. I had a chat

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Lukas, Here I come to the key part of my idea. We would allow every PHP usergroup to also appoint one person that gets unmoderated access to the list. Great idea! Lets just create an interface were people can register their UG and manage the email address for the contact person (and

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Felix De Vliegher
Hi Lukas Sounds like a good idea to channel the volume on this list. I was wondering, would the usergroup part be a replacement for the moderated messages by regular users or would it be an addition to it? I mean, we should better start promoting this one moderator-per- usergroup to

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
A simpler approach might be to just make the mailing list software enforce a 1 email per 24-hour day per user. It would require a bit more upfront work to munge the software, but wouldn't require any ongoing effort. Moderation can get messy since it isn't simply spam we or off-topic messages

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Stefan Walk
On Friday 31 October 2008 20:30:13 Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: A simpler approach might be to just make the mailing list software enforce a 1 email per 24-hour day per user. It would require a bit more upfront work to munge the software, but wouldn't require any ongoing effort. Moderation can get

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 20:30, Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A simpler approach might be to just make the mailing list software enforce a 1 email per 24-hour day per user. It would require a bit more upfront work Thats not going to work, we often have multiple threads going on. Even

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Hannes Magnusson wrote: Behavioural change is desperately needed, and I think developers should lead by example. One way to to that is to add a new internal-core@ mailinglist which is read-only to the world, and writeable by people with appropriate karma. That list would be dedicated for

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Restructuring the QA team

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 18:57, Johannes Schlüter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 14:54 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote: I'm not sure I like the idea of a strong credits page, it creates ego related issues which are not helping. A general page with the list of the QA contributors or

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 20:59, Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannes Magnusson wrote: Behavioural change is desperately needed, and I think developers should lead by example. One way to to that is to add a new internal-core@ mailinglist which is read-only to the world, and writeable

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the same as just making internals@ read-only. Once we have an internals-core, many core people will just unsubscribe from the internals list. I know I probably would. And once the core developers no longer read

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 21:13, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the same as just making internals@ read-only. Once we have an internals-core, many core people will just unsubscribe from the internals list.

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hannes Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the whole thread before posting please: external patches and general discussions would still be on the internals@ list, as it would be the main discussion list. I have been reading the entire thread, Hannes.

[PHP-DEV] Re: keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: Hi, So some core developers as well as lurking end users have noted that the traffic on this list prevents them from being able to follow this list. This is obviously a huge problem since this mailinglist is supposed to be our primary discussion and decision making

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:13 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: This is the same as just making internals@ read-only. Once we have an internals-core, many core people will just unsubscribe from the internals list. I know I probably would. And once the core developers no longer read it, it

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Scott MacVicar
On 31 Oct 2008, at 19:59, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Hannes Magnusson wrote: Behavioural change is desperately needed, and I think developers should lead by example. One way to to that is to add a new internal-core@ mailinglist which is read-only to the world, and writeable by people with

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 23:46, Johannes Schlüter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:13 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: I have more faith in our devs then that. [snip a good chunk of stuff] Additionally I guess it would split discussions, so a core person proposes something to