The state of the PHP-Group (was: OSI approval for PHP 3.01 license)

Hey all Am 07.03.20 um 13:20 schrieb Christoph M. Becker: > On 05.03.2020 at 17:46, Ben Ramsey wrote: > >>> I’ve submitted a formal request for “legacy approval” to the OSI license-review >>> list, according to their policies. >>> >>> >>> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-March/004716.html >> >> >> Here's a question from the OSI list that I cannot answer on my own: >> >> >>>> If this version is approved, will the steward voluntarily deprecate version 3.0, >>>> and if not, and if 3.01 is approved, should 3.0 be involuntarily deprecated? >> >> >> The “steward” is the PHP Group. I know that Rasmus, Zeev, and Sascha are still active >> on this list, but I don’t know what the protocol is for making this decision. Would this need a >> simple RFC for the internals community to vote on? If that’s the route, I’m happy to put >> together a draft. > > Could some member(s) of the PHP Group please comment on this. Would this be a good point in time to to question the current state of the PHP-Group as defined in https://www.php.net/credits.php? If the PHP-Group as a loose connection of veterans (used in the best sense here) is responsible for decisions like the one at hand here we might have to think about how that group is put together. Especially when of the ten people in the group only 3 seem to be still active. It looks like a bad idea to wait until no one is active any more and we need response from that group... Please note that this is not about breaking down the group or questioning the responsibilities (even though those as well seem to be rather loosely defined). This is merely about whether there should be some fresh blood in the group to reduce the bus-factor. Cheers Andreas -- ,,, (o o) +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ | Andreas Heigl | | mailto:andreas@heigl.org N 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | | http://andreas.heigl.org http://hei.gl/wiFKy7 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://hei.gl/root-ca | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

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