Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Release packaged

At 3:33 PM -0200 2000-05-21, Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello Rasmus, On 21-May-00 03:51:21, you wrote:

So, to sum up: PHP releases need to go through an effective code freeze period and from then on only bug fixes are performed until there a release is produced. All reports should be handled in a first come, first addressed basis. Reproducible bugs should have the priority. All features should be properly documented or else you would better not announce them. I think that these rushed releases should be rethought. PHP needs all the credibility as it may get. Rushing it as it is, is not helping.

Release early, release often. It is pretty much as simple as that. It keeps the project dynamic, it keeps people interested and it keeps things fun. Only a few of the PHP developers actually do this as their fulltime job. Probably only Zeev and Andi right now. For the rest of us it is more of a hobby, so you are completely right in saying that it isn't done in a professional manner. This is the very definition of large open

That's right and that's precisely PHP wastes big chances of being more accepted as a serious solution among the world of companies that are willing to pay for Web development services. This may not affect you if you don't do Web development for a living. But that affects many of us that are specialized in PHP based Web development and loose work opportunities every day because PHP is not even very well known among paying clients, and even among those that know it, PHP is not credible enough because it carries the bad reputation of less professional free software development.

You are complaining that the PHP developers don't work in such a way as to maximize your opportunities to make money. Given that most of those developers are volunteering their time, and given that PHP is free, and given that no one is forcing you to use PHP, I would hazard a guess that your argument has little or no persuasive force to those developers. -- Paul DuBois, paul@snake.net