Re: cvs: php4 / NEWS

From: "Sterling Hughes" <sterling@designmultimedia.com> > 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. I agree with Sterling. I´m haven´t yet found the very good introduction to the "Mersenne Twister" random number generator in ext/standard/rand.c. This comment in revision 1.31 should IMHO moved into the documentation. Why was it deleted, I can´t find it anymore. -Egon