Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-14 Thread David Soria Parra
Florin Patan florinpa...@gmail.com schrieb: - lack of clear documentation about the internals: you really can't tell me that the docs out there are clear because I did a bunch of searching for them and I'm pretty good at finding stuff You are welcome to improve the documentation and make it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
e 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha seva.lap...@gmail.com wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 09/12/2013 06:43 AM, Philip Sturgeon wrote: As for the comments about the FIG made by others, I agree with Larry in that we're doing a pretty good job at trying to build on the example set forward by internals. Self moderation and workflow are two important factors to the group, and I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Matthieu Napoli
Le 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha seva.lap...@gmail.com wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Seva Lapsha
Authorities don't run away. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Pascal Chevrel pascal.chev...@free.frwrote: e 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha seva.lap...@gmail.com wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks to. We have volunteers who work on things they need or find fun to work on. We can't possibly provide a solid road map two (I assume you mean major) versions out. The conflict here is the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Macedo
Why not both? The list should and will remain, but I see no issue in using the same inbox to start/reply-to a thread; it's been done, it can be done! And I don't think it's just about keeping people who like one or the other more, but rather allowing a quick read over the conversation in a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florin Patan
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell what's in the next two versions of php from now That's never going to happen. We don't have paid

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florin Patan
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks to. We have volunteers who work on things they need or find fun to work on. We can't possibly provide a solid

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
Le 12/09/2013 04:46, Rasmus Lerdorf a écrit : On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell what's in the next two versions of php from now That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
Florin Patan wrote: That said, maybe after 5.6 release it would be a good time to have a meeting and talk about future PHP versions and how we get there? I can suggest Berlin as a place to do it, there's plenty of activity here, lots of startups using PHP and a pretty nice city. You see that I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Michael Wallner
On 12 September 2013 13:43, Pascal Chevrel pascal.chev...@free.fr wrote: Le 12/09/2013 04:46, Rasmus Lerdorf a écrit : On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell what's in the next two versions of php from now That's

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
Le 12/09/2013 16:52, Michael Wallner a écrit : Have you talked to Michael yet and see if he could work on some bugs and/or feature requests lacking developers? I'm too much of a donkey to drive PHP alone, but thank you for your confidence :) You're welcome ;) I wasn't thinking of putting

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Derick, On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Derick Rethans der...@php.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Daniel Basten wrote: cite: I hope this is a joke. i guess that is the stuff they where talking about. Not following etiquette is one of the things that annoys people. And you just

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Florin, On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Florin Patan florinpa...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I read something that's not fun: https://twitter.com/ircmaxell/status/376027280562073600 Yet another good contributor leaves this community (not the whole PHP community) because of the way

[PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Florin Patan
Good day internals, This morning I read something that's not fun: https://twitter.com/ircmaxell/status/376027280562073600 Yet another good contributor leaves this community (not the whole PHP community) because of the way things are done here. It's true that this is an open source project and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Hello everyone. I just want to point out one thing about all that internals stuff and remind about a good idea that has been surfacing a few times through the years, but now I think it can actually get traction because of recent problems. It is based on the fact that there are too many people

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Dan Cryer
Well said, Florin. :) I'm not a core contributor, I never have been and probably never will be as I don't know C... but I do follow internals quite keenly. It strikes me that the biggest problem here is that there's no one entity to decide the rules of the road, so everything (including the rules

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:44 +0200, Florin Patan wrote: - having a RFC to make a language change requires to have a patch which if you don't know C and internals you got no chance of doing. Well, so what should happen? An RFC without patch is accepted and then? Somebody has to write a patch at

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: It is based on the fact that there are too many people writing to internals and mailing lists are not actually manageable at this level. I stopped following all the stuff around a year ago, when I started to get like 15 to 30 maillist

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
On 09/11/2013 02:46 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: So, I think, it's time to move to a forum. I hope this is a joke. so do I ... -- hartmut -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Daniel Basten
cite: I hope this is a joke. i guess that is the stuff they where talking about. greetings, daniel 2013/9/11 Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: It is based on the fact that there are too many people writing to internals and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Patrick Schaaf
On Wednesday 11 September 2013 15:00:33 Daniel Basten wrote: cite: I hope this is a joke. i guess that is the stuff they where talking about. Yeah. A forum would be much better, this whole thread could just be moderated shut and invisible after the first message. Also a forum would avoid

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Daniel Basten wrote: cite: I hope this is a joke. i guess that is the stuff they where talking about. Not following etiquette is one of the things that annoys people. And you just violated list etiquette it by top-replying. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Arvids Godjuks
2013/9/11 Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: It is based on the fact that there are too many people writing to internals and mailing lists are not actually manageable at this level. I stopped following all the stuff around a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 16:26 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: P.S. While I was writing this, 4 people posted. Only Patrick Schaaf posted usefull information. If this would be a forum - those 3 posts should be marked as off topic and hidden by default. I read this as I want a censor Does this

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
Arvids Godjuks wrote: P.S. While I was writing this, 4 people posted. Only Patrick Schaaf posted usefull information. If this would be a forum - those 3 posts should be marked as off topic and hidden by default. But who decides what is off topic. There are genuine disagreements as to how PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Terence Copestake
In less than 10 posts, this thread descended into people bashing each other. Perhaps that's telling of something. I won't comment on the point about forums or anything else, but a concern brought up repeatedly both here and in various blogs is the lack of direction or vision. There's a conflict

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Arvids Godjuks
2013/9/11 Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 16:26 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: P.S. While I was writing this, 4 people posted. Only Patrick Schaaf posted usefull information. If this would be a forum - those 3 posts should be marked as off topic and hidden

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Arvids Godjuks
2013/9/11 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Arvids Godjuks wrote: P.S. While I was writing this, 4 people posted. Only Patrick Schaaf posted usefull information. If this would be a forum - those 3 posts should be marked as off topic and hidden by default. But who decides what is off topic.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Florin Patan
That's not the first time I mention it, but Discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) seems like the kind of forum software appropriate for some of these problems. It allows: - branching off conversations (you all know how this is one of the biggest problem here) - community moderation:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Matthieu Napoli
Le 11/09/2013 16:06, Arvids Godjuks a écrit : 2013/9/11 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Arvids Godjuks wrote: P.S. While I was writing this, 4 people posted. Only Patrick Schaaf posted usefull information. If this would be a forum - those 3 posts should be marked as off topic and hidden by

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Arvids Godjuks
2013/9/11 Terence Copestake terence.copest...@gmail.com In less than 10 posts, this thread descended into people bashing each other. Perhaps that's telling of something. I won't comment on the point about forums or anything else, but a concern brought up repeatedly both here and in various

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Florin Patan
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:44 +0200, Florin Patan wrote: - having a RFC to make a language change requires to have a patch which if you don't know C and internals you got no chance of doing. Well, so what should

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
Terence Copestake wrote: There's a conflict between people who want to keep PHP simple and accessible and people who want to make PHP into a professional programming tool/environment, complete with all bells and whistles. You see that is part of the problem here. What proportion of the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Jordi Boggiano
As I answered on Anthony's post, there is not much need for waking up, or moving the talks to a forum, or discussing the problem to death here. The problem is clear, and everyone involved on this mailing list is aware of it to some degree. The only way this can be solved is if the offenders

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread André Rømcke
On Sep 11, 2013, at 15:52 , Terence Copestake terence.copest...@gmail.com wrote: (.. ) a concern brought up repeatedly both here and in various blogs is the lack of direction or vision. There's a conflict between people who want to keep PHP simple and accessible and people who want to make

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Madara Uchiha
A forum is merely a medium, and even if the community would be able to moderate message, I still foresee a problem. As long as the community remains hostile to newcomers, moderation would be hostile as well. Take for example the situation on Stack Overflow's PHP tag. Hardened by a tidal wave of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 21:27 +0200, Madara Uchiha wrote: As long as the community remains hostile to newcomers, moderation would be hostile as well. Sorry, I don't believe in this hostile argument. Yes people have strong opinions and aren't not necessarily diplomatic while stating them (for all

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Florin Patan
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Madara Uchiha dor.tchi...@gmail.com wrote: A forum is merely a medium, and even if the community would be able to moderate message, I still foresee a problem. As long as the community remains hostile to newcomers, moderation would be hostile as well. Take for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Ulf Wendel
Am 11.09.2013 14:46, schrieb Johannes Schlüter: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: So, I think, it's time to move to a forum. I hope this is a joke. +1. A forum is a no go for me. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
Philip Sturgeon wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Terence Copestake wrote: There's a conflict between people who want to keep PHP simple and accessible and people who want to make PHP into a professional programming tool/environment, complete with

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 09/11/2013 02:35 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:44 +0200, Florin Patan wrote: - having a RFC to make a language change requires to have a patch which if you don't know C and internals you got no chance of doing. Well, so what should happen? An RFC without patch is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:34 +0200, Florin Patan wrote: First, I didn't said anything about attitude to new comers. For me it was quite well and people offered to help out in solving issues. Thanks. Second, if you read the posting rules of this mailing list, top posting is one of those things

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Levi Morrison
So if you want to do something useful: draft an RFC with a clear code of conduct, put it to a vote, promote it. And if you don't agree see above, take a deep breath and do not waste time answering this email to tell me an idiot. Typically RFC's have been about the PHP language and not about

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 16:15 +0200, Florin Patan wrote: There's also little to no documentation on how to setup your work environment for developing something for PHP, I've started to do something about that but it's not like I'm a experienced user in this Issue 1: There is no single work

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread guilhermebla...@gmail.com
Hi Johannes, I do understand motivations behind keeping core simple and stable that majority of internals always promote. I also understand the majority of user base is on shared host. But as a counterpart, what about large agencies that do want to extract every single feature PHP has to provide?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell what's in the next two versions of php from now That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks to. We have volunteers who work on things they

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Larry Garfield
On 09/11/2013 05:44 AM, Florin Patan wrote: Where's Rasmus, the so called benevolent dictator, to actually dictate and handle the internals? Yes Rasmus, you're making money out of PHP yet I haven't seen a comment from you in the past months. Wikipedia doesn't list you as hibernating. Rasmus

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Seva Lapsha
PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change. 3. Implement it. 4. Maintain it. Start with 1. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Florin Patan florinpa...@gmail.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Philip Sturgeon
PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change. 3. Implement it. 4. Maintain it. Start with 1. Why is earning authority a step in this process? This just seems

RE: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Rajneesh Shetty
http://www.unicom.com/pw/faq/sco-xenix.faq blast from the past... Rajneesh N. Shetty Tel : (+61)468371858 From: Philip Sturgeon [pjsturg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 12 September 2013 2:43 PM To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-11 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha seva.lap...@gmail.com wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change. 3. Implement it. 4. Maintain it. Start