Re: Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:26:25 +0000
Subject:	Re: Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process
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At 10:10 27/08/2004, Christian Stocker wrote:

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...).

Me too. I would like to get some feedback about my suggestion to move away from the simple 'experimental' status and dividing it into two - quality rating, and 'API subject to change' tagging. Does this make sense to anybody else? Zeev