Re: PHP 6 Preview

On 19/05/2007, at 4.23, Wez Furlong wrote:

On 5/18/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:

I can see 47 open bug reports assigned to you (this is bugs.php.net only, there are also 25+ bug reports in PECL). Most of the reports are COM, PDO or streams related. Do you still maintain these extensions? If no, please say so, we'll start looking for new maintainers.

With respect Tony, I think you're being somewhat dickish here. I'd be totally fine with you saying that if I had actually assigned those bugs to myself, but I didn't. It's pretty clear that I've been too busy to work on those bugs, but that's fine; we have other people (also maintainers) that are perfectly capable of working on them too. It's this kind of sniping that PHP can really do without.

Wez, Tony does a difficult job of sifting through hundreds and hundreds of bug reports every week. He fixes a lot of stuff himself and assigns the ones he cannot to the extension maintainers. That's how it works. I understand that it is a very demanding and at times very frustrating work since there are tons and tons of bogus reports and some really nasty people reporting them. I for one appreciate that people don't have time for PHP and that is fair enough. But I also have a great admiration for people who devote their time for keeping an eye and resolving all those bug reports. Edin