Re: [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On 01/31/2014 01:21 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I have to add something here. >> >> Many of the people voting on that RFC have never ever contributed as much >> as >> a single line of code into the PHP source tree, and a couple have >> literally >> contributed low-single-digit patches. >> Incidentally, as far as I could tell, all of them[*] voted in favor of the >> proposed changes (i.e. source compatibility breakage). >> >> Even though having non-code-contributors makes a lot of sense for >> decisions >> regarding the language's features and we built in support for it in the >> voting RFC, in my opinion, it makes no sense at all for people who have no >> stake at the development of the language's source code to weigh in on how >> that code is written. Personally I didn't expect we'd be voting on things >> like that (implementation style) back when I was involved in the voting >> RFC, >> but perhaps it's time to amend it a bit. >> >> If you fall in that category, please do the right thing and delete your >> vote. I think the right thing to do is to actually not posting such respect-less and misinformed requests. It is wrong and rude in so many ways. Please double check who voted and what they did. Also I would also not going down the road of active contributors either, not even remotely. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org