Re: cvs: php4 / NEWS

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: > I haven't looked at the code but it is kind of weird that Jeroen is getting > this kind of criticism right now after he sent his game plan to php-dev a > few times. Couldn't you think of it then? > It must be extremely frustrating to receive this now after he's worked on > it so hard. > Of course if there are technical problems they should be resolved. I'm just > stating this about the non-technical aspect of what happened. > Two things -- 1) This *was* addressed when he announced his intentions, people had problems with it then, and obviously people still do. It was left unresolved at that point. 2) If I had a nickle for every time someone (including myself), proposed a change without a patch, we spent (wasted) hours talking about it with nothing materializing (even if we have agreement on the patch), I'd be able to start a venture capital firm. Remember that whole function renaming thread? In my experience, its not that uncommon in Open Source either for actual discussions to emerge along with code. Before that its just ideas floating in the air. -Sterling