Re: Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:49:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process | ||
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> At last weekend's EuroFoo [1] I attended Marc-Andre Lemburg's talk [2]
> on the Python development process.
>
> I really wish we had a process similar to Python's PEPs [3] [4] for PHP.
>
> Having guidelines for issues like adding a new module [5] or deprecating
> a module [6] not only makes the development consistent but also
> transparent to our users.
It smells a little too processy to me, but I wouldn't mind a system that
borrowed some of the ideas. Like a single collection point for feature
proposals and a common format for them. We could simply steal PEAR's PEPR
infrastructure for this (http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-overview.php).
-Rasmus