Re: Censorship in php

Lester Caine wrote (on 22/12/2013):

But currently the website is promoting a new venue for discussion not hosted by php.net as far as I can tell with no linkage back to the project at all? It requires a separate login and it's the control and administration of this which I am questioning.

I think the idea is that the feedback area doesn't require any login at all, and is not really for co-ordination and planning, just gathering feedback. There are many many people who use the php.net website who would never think to sign up to a co-ordination list or file a bug, so it's a useful way of getting their opinions. Looking at the open tickets yesterday, it seems to be gathering a range of opinions, both positive and negative.

Like composer and php-fig it seems that the core project is happy to let others take control of what I consider fundamental development decisions

PHP is a programming language, not a framework, and that distinction is not new or unique to PHP. Composer is a package management tool, and php-fig is a set of coding standards; neither touch on the language itself, so for the core developers of the language to presume control of them would be unnecessary to the point of arrogance. The php.net website is, obviously, fairly central to the language, but its design is hardly in the same category as, say, whether PHP should have a ** operator, so having a separate team with different expertise managing it makes perfect sense. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]