Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 00:08 24/01/2003, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: You should have learned this by now. Perception and warm fuzzies is an extremely important part of a large open source project that relies heavily on a large number of volunteers. Messing with that is playing with fire. I believe we can get work done o

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Robinson
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Perception and warm fuzzies is an extremely important part of > a large open source project that relies heavily on a large > number of volunteers. Messing with that is playing with fire. You've hit it bang on. [noise] The clinical name for the 'fire' in this case is "cyc

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Ok, I can't be bothered to fight a mailing list that was supposed to trim > down endless discussions. I'm not the one that asked for the list, but I > definitely supported it, as unlike most of the members on this list, I > remember the pre-v4 days, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Maxim Maletsky
this email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > | Imagine a company office where the programmers get paid per hour while > | spending tons of time at the round table of a meeting room throwing into > | each other what they like

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Brian Moon
| Imagine a company office where the programmers get paid per hour while | spending tons of time at the round table of a meeting room throwing into | each other what they like better and why. In open source this happens a | lot. hey, who let you in to the dealnews dev room? Brian. dealnews.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Maxim Maletsky
I tend to agree about the fact that in Open Source people often spend more time on politics rather than developing. Imagine a company office where the programmers get paid per hour while spending tons of time at the round table of a meeting room throwing into each other what they like better and

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread James Cox
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Kalowsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I've heard the arguments for the list, and I can only say they are > valid reasons. But you're now making PHP a political project rather > than a software project. Thanks. This is the sort of thing I don't > want to

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Zeev Suraski
Ok, I can't be bothered to fight a mailing list that was supposed to trim down endless discussions. I'm not the one that asked for the list, but I definitely supported it, as unlike most of the members on this list, I remember the pre-v4 days, and what kind of mountains we had to push in order

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Kalowsky
Then discontinue it. End of discussion. This is an open source project, and I see little to no-advantage to it's use outside of creating a rather vile aftertaste in the mouths of those developers who are not "invited". I've heard the arguments for the list, and I can only say they are valid r

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Zeev Suraski
Rasmus, The whole point of the list was to avoid threads like this letter is going to spawn. Let's stop it here, please. John - if you feel you belong in php5-dev(*) and want to actively participate in the discussions, we'll add you. The point of php5-dev was to create a working group for ge

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, John Coggeshall wrote: > The reason I ask is that Shane Caraveo and I were working on the thread > saftey issue, but we couldn't talk about it because we weren't invited > to the PHP5-DEV list I had nothing to do with that limited php5 list. I thought that was completely bog

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread John Coggeshall
5:51 AM >To: Piotr Sobolewski >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when? > > >> I would like to know in advance when PHP 5 will be released. > >So would we. We have no idea. Sometime in the next 4-18 >months. How's

RE: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread John Coggeshall
I am working on some reader-friendly docs to answer this question, but for now you can read the ZEND_CHANGES file in the PHP CVS John >-Original Message- >From: Piotr Sobolewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:41 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PHP-D

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 12:41 23/01/2003, Piotr Sobolewski wrote: Can somebody tell me approximately when it will happen? 3 months? Year? If everything works properly, it should be out before the end of the year, hopefully around Q3. We'll start to release betas in the very near future (weeks), so you'd be able to

Re: [PHP-DEV] roadmap of PHP - where? PHP 5 - when?

2003-01-23 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> I would like to know in advance when PHP 5 will be released. So would we. We have no idea. Sometime in the next 4-18 months. How's that? > Can I find a sort of "roadmap" somewhere? We are well past the roadmap and into the TODO stage now. Our trusted secretary, Sebastian, has been maint