Re: We Want Quality

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > Please keep an open mind. These are general guidelines. > > > > I am; Your strict instructions were the ones who seemed not to leave any > > room for an open mind (they pretty sound like army-style orders, to be > > honest :). > > "Omit needless word!" cried Professor Will Strunk. The > so-called Little Book (The Elements of Style) gives useful > guidelines for writing. Well then, don't be surprised if what you say ends up sounding very different than what you meant, if you omit 'needless' words. The words you probably refer to as needless are the words that usually set the atmosphere of your statements, and even though they may not affect what you're actually saying, they make all the difference in the world. > Extending the release process to reach a larger audience will > help. Reviving the php-beta list where people commit to test > basic functionality on their platform is a good start. Yes, that would be a good idea. php-beta@ was simply never quite a success story, I think it had about 15 people at its peak. We can try to advertise it more though. > I don't see it that way. The contributors are interested in > improving PHP, not in destabilizing it. Closing the CVS tree > for a week will not stop them from developing new stuff. It > will only delay inclusion to the official PHP CVS tree. Considering branches don't work too nicely with CVS, halting development for long periods of time (1-2 weeks) would, de-facto, hurt the development of PHP. We should definitely implement a feature freeze, but a code freeze is simply not possible IMO. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/