Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Policy on 3rd party code

2024-10-07 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: >> On Oct 2, 2024, at 3:36 PM, Andreas Heigl wrote: >> IMO the PHP website is more or less a bunch of static pages. There is not >> really much interaction necessary. So having a framework might not >> necessarily be The Thing. > > You may b

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Policy on 3rd party code

2024-10-07 Thread Jim Winstead
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, at 2:54 AM, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:38 PM Larry Garfield wrote: >> Since Jim's RFC proposal was criticized for being too vague, I hereby offer >> a somewhat more prescriptive policy proposal on using 3rd party code. (With >> JIm's blessing.)

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Policy on 3rd party code

2024-10-02 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Oct 2, 2024, at 12:17 PM, Deleu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM Larry Garfield wrote: >> Since Jim's RFC proposal was criticized for being too vague, I hereby offer >> a somewhat more prescriptive policy proposal on using 3rd party code. (With >> JIm's blessing.) It's still mor

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects

2024-09-26 Thread Jim Winstead
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024, at 5:13 AM, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > Am 2024-09-25 01:45, schrieb Jim Winstead: >> It has taken me longer than initially anticipated to circle back to >> this, but I intend to open the voting on this RFC on Thursday >> (2024-09-26T16:00:00Z

Re: [PHP-DEV] VCS Account Request: ayesh

2024-09-25 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, at 12:17 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 25.09.2024 at 20:54, Ayesh Karunaratne wrote: > >> My name is Ayesh Karunaratne, with GitHub username @Ayesh. >> >> In one of my recent PRs, Christoph (@cmb) made a friendly mention that >> it might be time for a php.net and commit

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects

2024-09-24 Thread Jim Winstead
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024, at 10:44 AM, Jim Winstead wrote: > Hi, > > Another RFC around process: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/web-and-doc-use-not-endorsement > > Feedback would be appreciated. My intention is to start voting on September > 9th unless there is still ongoing disc

Re: [PHP-DEV] What to do with ext/snmp?

2024-08-30 Thread Jim Winstead
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024, at 9:54 AM, Calvin Buckley wrote: > On Aug 29, 2024, at 2:49 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> it seems to me that we're pulling through ext/snmp without having any >> real expert of the protocol, let alone of the implementation. The >> extension has no

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects

2024-08-28 Thread Jim Winstead
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024, at 10:54 AM, Deleu wrote: > Hi Jim! > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM Jim Winstead wrote: >> __ >> Hi, >> >> Another RFC around process: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/web-and-doc-use-not-endorsement >> >> Feedback would

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Using and Mentioning Third-partyPackages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects

2024-08-27 Thread Jim Winstead
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, at 4:46 AM, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 27.08.2024 at 07:03, Andreas Heigl wrote: > >> I see this a bid differently to be honest. While I understand that using >> third party packages in our internal tools might make things easier in >> the short term it will cause a lot o

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects

2024-08-26 Thread Jim Winstead
Hi, Another RFC around process: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/web-and-doc-use-not-endorsement Feedback would be appreciated. My intention is to start voting on September 9th unless there is still ongoing discussion. Thanks. Jim

Re: [PHP-DEV] Updates needed to various RFCs

2024-08-11 Thread Jim Winstead
On Aug 11, 2024, at 10:22 AM, Marco Aurélio Deleu wrote: > On 11 Aug 2024, at 13:59, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> >> On a general note, the whole administrative part of the RFC process >> feels like we're stuck in the 20th century. For instance, to start the >> vote, you are supposed to: >> >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Lock down old bug tracker to developers only?

2024-07-20 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 10:20 AM, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > Quite a while ago, Damian had suggested to "don't allow any further > edits, comments, uploads, or other activity except by php.net developer > accounts."[1] In my opinion, this is overdue, so after a very brief > "discussion" on this

Re: Website Analytics (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Website php.net updates and coordination)

2024-07-11 Thread Jim Winstead
(Followups on this should probably just go to the php-webmaster@ list, but I've included internals@ one last time just to leave a pointer to where the conversation may continue.) On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, at 7:09 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2024, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > >> 2. Analytic

Re: [PHP-DEV] Website php.net updates and coordination

2024-07-11 Thread Jim Winstead
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, at 6:54 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2024, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > >> 3. Deployment Process >> Recently, there was an incident with a code block pushed to the >> website accidentally: https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/1021. It was >> promptly reverted, but the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Decoding HTML and the Ambiguous Ampersand

2024-07-10 Thread Jim Winstead
On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Dennis Snell wrote: > [ lots snipped ] > > We’re exploring pure-PHP solutions to these problems in WordPress in attempts > to improve the reliability and safety of handling HTML. I’d love to hear your > thoughts and know if anyone is willing to work with me to cr

Re: [PHP-DEV] Website php.net updates and coordination

2024-07-10 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, at 9:44 AM, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > [ snipped the specific issues ] > > I’d like to volunteer to help improve the PHP website and coordinate > efforts. Looking forward to your feedback. Once upon a time, management of the web site(s) was handled by those on the webmaster mai

Re: [PHP-DEV] Negatively Voted Notes

2024-07-10 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, at 12:24 PM, Bilge wrote: > On 10/07/2024 19:42, Derick Rethans wrote: >> Notes where never meant to be helpful to other developers. They were hints >> to the editors > If that's the case, why would they even be public? > I think Derick is over-stating things a bit. As I me

Re: [PHP-DEV] Negatively Voted Notes

2024-07-10 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, at 7:18 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > We discussed this during one of our foundation meetings, and we propose: > > - to delete all notes with a rating less than -5 that are older than a > year. > - come up with a plan to crowd source going through the other thousands > of

Re: [PHP-DEV] [Initial Feedback] PHP User Modules - An Adaptation of ES6 from JavaScript

2024-06-27 Thread Jim Winstead
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, at 2:14 PM, Jordan LeDoux wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM Jim Winstead wrote: >> __ >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 7:15 PM, Michael Morris wrote: >>> PHP User Modules are php files that are brought into the runtime through a >>> ne

Re: [PHP-DEV] [Initial Feedback] PHP User Modules - An Adaptation of ES6 from JavaScript

2024-06-27 Thread Jim Winstead
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 7:15 PM, Michael Morris wrote: > PHP User Modules are php files that are brought into the runtime through a > new parser that is able to generate faster and more concise runtime code by > removing support for problematic features and imposing a strict mode by > default.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Release cycle update, take #2

2024-03-21 Thread Jim Winstead
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, at 10:54 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > >> I would like to propose a new process RFC for updates to PHP release >> cycle: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/release_cycle_update > > I have just published version 0.2 of this propos

Re: [PHP-DEV] int|float for sleep? sleep(0.1) => sleep 0.1 seconds

2024-03-09 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 1:04 PM, Bruce Weirdan wrote: > Hi Jim > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, 20:46 Jim Winstead wrote: >> If the adherence to semantic versioning is meant to be strict, > > PHP doesn't follow semver and never had. Okay, strike that and replace it with &q

Re: [PHP-DEV] int|float for sleep? sleep(0.1) => sleep 0.1 seconds

2024-03-09 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 5:07 AM, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM Jim Winstead wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, at 12:12 AM, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: >> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 20:17, Larry Garfield wrote: >> >> >> >> A 3 way up-down

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Rounding Integers as int

2024-03-09 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 8:00 AM, Larry Garfield wrote: ]> If there's some math reason that we cannot have those functions return > int (someone mentioned there was, but I don't really understand it and > the RFC does not explain it at all), then we should at least keep > consistency in the retur

Re: [PHP-DEV] int|float for sleep? sleep(0.1) => sleep 0.1 seconds

2024-03-08 Thread Jim Winstead
On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, at 12:12 AM, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 20:17, Larry Garfield wrote: >> >> A 3 way up-down vote doesn't make sense. What happens if none of the 3 >> options reaches 66%? >> >> The viable options here are a single RCV vote (which we've done before), or

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote] Promote the PHP Foundation

2024-02-07 Thread Jim Winstead
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024, at 12:57 AM, Jorg Sowa wrote: > Hello Jim, > shoudl this RFC be placed into the Policies repository as it was accepted? > > https://github.com/php/policies I'm not sure that it's necessary, but if it fits in there somehow I have no problem with it. I didn't see this as an ado

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why are serialized strings wrapped in double quotes? (s::"")

2024-02-07 Thread Jim Winstead
On Tue, Feb 6, 2024, at 12:19 PM, Sanford Whiteman wrote: > Howdy all, haven't posted in ages but good to see the list going strong. > > I'd like a little background on something we've long accepted: why > does the serialization format need double quotes around a string, even > though the byte leng

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote] Promote the PHP Foundation

2024-02-01 Thread Jim Winstead
Hello again, The RFC was approved unanimously, so as soon as someone with the appropriate access does the thing, the link will go up. Thanks. Jim -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote] Promote the PHP Foundation

2024-01-16 Thread Jim Winstead
Hi all, I've just opened voting for this RFC @ https://wiki.php.net/rfc/promote_php_foundation Voting started now, and will run until January 31 2024, 00:00 UTC. Thanks. Jim

[PHP-DEV] RFC proposal: Promote the PHP Foundation

2024-01-06 Thread Jim Winstead
Hi, I've created a simple RFC so a vote can be taken on adding a link to the PHP Foundation from the PHP.net site. If there's no substantial discussion ongoing, I'll plan on opening the voting on January 13th. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/promote_php_foundation Thanks. Jim

Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a donate link to the PHP website

2023-12-02 Thread Jim Winstead
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 1:32 AM, Rowan Tommins wrote: > The only note of caution I would throw in is that the recent Technical > Committee proposal [1] was soundly rejected, so any *organisational* changes > are likely to be a lot more contentious. So care should be taken to separate > those fro

Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a donate link to the PHP website

2023-11-30 Thread Jim Winstead
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, at 12:39 AM, James Titcumb wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 07:28, Andreas Heigl wrote: > > > > > I would even support an RFC that goes one step beyond that and not only > > officially recognize the PHPFoundation as a sponsoring organization but > > also transfers the Copyrig

[PHP-DEV] Adding a donate link to the PHP website

2023-11-29 Thread Jim Winstead
Hi (again), A quick re-intro for those who don't know or remember me: I'm one of the original PHP Group members, mostly active during the time of horses, buggies, and the transitions from PHP/FI to PHP 3 and PHP 4. I worked for MySQL through their acquisition by Sun (and then Oracle), and was r

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: news.php.net rewrite rules

2004-06-21 Thread Jim Winstead
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:29:20PM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > >cvs.php.net/php-master-web has the code (index.php, group.php, etc). > >These print out the links. > > Uhm, ehm, php-news-web > >>> > >>>I see. Well, go ahead i'd say ;-) > >> > >>Could you please make the rewrite wor