Re: RFC: RFC Workflow & Voting (2019 update)

All, I have managed to avoid commenting on PHP-FIG since the group was dissolved, then re-constituted under the same name, without my participation as one of its original founding members. However, I cannot let this phrasing pass: On Feb 1, 2019, at 10:30, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > FIG today is a very different organization. It does not > claim any authority or official-ness beyond "a lot of people listen to our > recommendations", which is objectively true. Larry is trying to play both sides here with plausible deniability. Quoting him from https://www.sitepoint.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-php-fig/ : > FIG has effectively become the standards body for PHP. It took time for it to earn it, but it > did, thanks to the work of dozens of people, both FIG members and not. A [Reddit > thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3wownq/how_do_you_see_the_phpfig/) started last > January showed that, while not universal, there was a clear preference for FIG to step up and accept > that role formally. Either Larry feels that FIG is effectively a standards body, or he does not. And now that I have spoken, I may be more to say on the matter -- but not just yet. -- Paul M. Jones pmjones@pmjones.io http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php