Re: My musings on problems I've had with the PHP community

Antony Dovgal <tony@daylessday.org> wrote: > > On 15.10.2007 23:16, Bill Moran wrote: > > But you're confirming something I theorized ... there _is_ something wrong > > with the PHP community. If contributors like yourself have become so > > frustrated with the users that they don't want to be involved, there is > > a REAL problem. > > You misunderstood what I said. > I'm still involved and I'm not going to leave the development. Fair enough. > But I do not respond to the reports that are not directly related to the extensions > I maintain. Well, I still consider this a problem. While your clarification is necessary, I don't feel it alters my statement. > And one of the reasons is users like you. I've been mulling over how to respond to this statement for a while. Please, for my own edification, describe who you think I am. I'm absolutely certain you're mistaken, please read below. > > I expect that this sort of frustration on the part of developers leads to > > exacerbated frustration on the part of the users, which leads to more > > frustration on the part of developers ... and so on and so on in an > > endless loop. > > So you decided to help us with that and wrote a nice blog post telling how > evil PHP developers made you to wait for two weeks, right? > > > So, I'm not sure I have any suggestions. Looks like PHP is a tough project > > to be a part of. > > Well, I do have one. Please do something more useful. Thanks. I'm unsure where all your hatred stems from. I'm trying to help get a bug in PHP fixed and I'm having difficulty with it. As a result, I'm not trying to address the difficulty directly. I can only assume that you're having a rough day, or that you've dealt with so many jerks lately that your frame of mind is that everyone who criticizes is a jerk. There is, however, such a thing as constructive criticism, and that is what I am trying to do. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com