Re: Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process

On 27.8.2004 8:59 Uhr, Derick Rethans wrote:

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.

What is wrong with how we currently do it?

Agreed. I don't like PEpr, I don't like the PEAR voting process and the PHP developement process works quite well how it is (I'm aware of the fact, the PHP wouldn't just take PEAR's model as-it-is, but nevertheless...). Actually, other people i talk to are always impressed, how this "chaotic", based-on-common-agreement developement process actually works at all ;) This doesn't stop us from having some PEP-like documents, which clearly define some common rules, but I fear we end up in heavy discussions on wording and details. See the PEAR mailinglists for an example ;) chregu -- christian stocker | Bitflux GmbH | schoeneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich phone +41 1 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 http://www.bitflux.ch | chregu@bitflux.ch | gnupg-keyid 0x5CE1DECB