Re: PDO Extension contributions

On 2013-05-01, at 6:28 AM, Guilherme Capilé wrote: > Ola Ferenc, > > I'm willing to resurrect the development, how can I do it? Right now > I'm having trouble in making a simple patch applied... > ... I support that. When someone has patches to commit, I don't think the attitude should be "...if we could (either) resurrect the development...". Someone is trying to do that! PHP development needs to get better about on-boarding new developers. I've submitted a patch to the docs before, and it took months to be applied. This type of experience actively discourages new developers. And the PHP dev mailing list is filled with "if only someone would submit patches" comments from the current developers. One of the current PHP developers should spend some time spotting valuable patches, and helpful new contributors, because if all they do is bring onboard 5 new developers per year, that will accomplish more for PHP than any code they themselves could write. I think the PDO_DBLIB is important. I use it, and I've just switched jobs, and found that they use it all over the place too. I was surprised to learn that it is broken or nearly broken in 5.4. And we use it for Sybase too. Tom