Re: Setting up RFC
| From: | Joey Smith | Date: | Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:23:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Setting up RFC | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, John Donagher wrote the following to php-dev@lists.php...:
> With what end in mind is an RFC to be created for? In the IETF, RFC's are
> typically long, complex, and authoritative. They are often referenced for years
> after their inception. Do you honestly think we could (or want to) achieve this
> with PHP feature RFC's? Or will they be used only before initial feature
> implementation, then quickly outdated and discarded? That is my biggest problem
> with documents: they take a lot of effort to create, are often difficult to
> grok, and _almost always_ have a very short lifecycle.
PHP feature RFC != IETF RFC's.
Go back and read my original proposal on the issue. What I had in mind
was something more like what Perl has done with the Perl 6 RFC's, or
(perhaps) the PEP's of Python...
The point being that there is a LOT of discussion on certain topics, and
people often change sides on an issue over the life of the discussion. I
was simply trying to say "Let's make this a *bit* more orderly.", mainly
becuase I had already lost track of several of the then-current threads
on the zend-engine list.