Re: PHP roadmap

I think we get a pretty good idea from simply reading php-general and talking to people. It's not like we are a group of high and mighty unreachables. We are all PHP users. A poll like this sounds like something you would use to try to get the attention of some large corporate entity. -Rasmus On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 lists@itsg.net.au wrote: > > one of the things i believe that has made PHP so popular is that it has > grown to meet the needs of its userbase with each new version. > > i was wondering if any of the developers have seriously begun to think > (or even plan!) what the next major revision of PHP will look like. > i think as a syntax, there aren't too many more things that will ever make > their way into the language - most of the core team have expressed their > disapproval of adding things in with too little thought (rightly so). > > so where is PHP headed? > > to date, PHP's "customers" have had to either file feature requests, wait > until someone who was competent enough had an itch they had to scratch, or > try and do it themselves. maybe it would be a good idea to pre-empt them > and show them that the PHP team really cares what they think. > > a questionnaire and then a poll could be used to gauge their > satisfaction and what they would most like in the next (major) version. > the questionnaire could be pretty open ended, ie. "what would you most > like to see in PHP [4.1|5]?". the poll could have the top ten > things that were requested, with each user being able to pick five of > them. at the end, the developers would have an excellent idea of where > people *really* want to see PHP going. > > just a suggestion 8^), > > - avi > >