Re[2]: [PHP-DOC] get the word out about livedocs

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, anatoly techtonik wrote: > ||*()*|| Hi, Derick. > > >> My opinion that PHP.NET need a public-available project map, where > >> project description, technology, roadmap, status and general guidelines > >> will be explained, but I'm afraid that without commercial support it > >> is not real to get started. > > DR> Why? > > 1. Developers are not enough motivated Bullshit, there were tons of commits last week that proved the opposite. > 2. Developers don't have enough time Same here, nor do I fail to see how creating road maps helps here, that costs extra time, doesn't it? > 3. OpenSource folks lack organization/planning/time and project management > skills acquired in complex projects with appropriate commercial tools (such > as MS Project, Rational) What makes you think that? Most "OpenSource folks" also work in a company, where those tools might be in use. I doubt anybody here wants to do anything with propietary Windows only tools too. > 4. Responsibility, task distribution and timely support is not possible > when you have full-time work contract somethere else to earn funds. I think it works pretty well right now, f.e. see the Unicode stuff, the OCI8 stuff. Remember that we're mostly all volunteers here, working on PHP because we need to solve a problem that we encounter. We're not a company. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org