Re: Re: cvs: php4(PHP_4_0_5) /sapi/fastcgi

At 17:15 21/3/2001, Sascha Schumann wrote:

I definitely don't agree with this definitely. A good thing about opensource projects is that there aren't committees and thick rule books that move and act at the speed of a dinosaur. When it begins to look that way, you know you're in the wrong direction.

    OpenSource does not mean careless committers and bug-riddled
    software.  OpenSource software can excel in code quality and
    stableness.

    Your personal goal seems to differ from that target.  I think
    that is a pity.

Your argumentative tone is also a pity. As for the issue at hand, we differ greatly at the amount of importance we attribute to considering rules as if they were God-given. I care about PHP's quality a lot, quite before you were even a contributor to the project. I'm not coming to downplay your caring, but I'm not sure what makes you think you can downplay mine. The fact that you see what I say as if opensource software means bug-riddled software or careless committers still doesn't mean that's what I'm saying, and obviously (as I'm sure you know deep inside), it's not. That's just your binary way of looking at things, which is thankfully not shared by most people. I stand completely behind what I said, but obviously not behind your summary of what I said. The bottom line is that, as I said, the trick in good opensource software is taking calculated risks, and mixing agility with quality assurance. One can look through your binary glasses, and then it's either complete lack of quality, or complete lack of risks, and one can look with reasonable experienced eyes and strive to get to the right mixture. I, for one, don't enjoy looking through these binary glasses. Zeev