I believe that a starting point for a governing entity would be the author of PHP (and/or his appointed representatives/associates), the core developers of PHP itself (including Zend), and possibly the current top-level leadership of the major User Groups. Review is annual as most other such self-regulating bodies. Peter
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolan Yang Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:08 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] About Formalizing an Enterprise PHP and the PHP+Developer Peter Sawczynec wrote: > So what would be wrong if we just agreed as a professional group to use > these above entities as our bedrock standards. We use the Zend cert, the > Zend IDE/framework and officially sanction Php.net and > Sourceforge.net/PEAR as the defacto outlets of help/reference and code. > > We would not deny the use of, learning of, or the amicable co-existence > of any and all other outlets/entities, but the above noted entities > would be the generalized initial standards. > > .... > > What governing body would have the authority to grant the "medal of standards" to these entities? Also, how often would the new candidates be reviewed, should say.. something better than PEAR bubble up to the top? ~Rolan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
