Re: Outline

Hi Michael, Thanks for this input. You saved me from posting a response to others and potentially adding fuel to the fire. I will instead, turn my attention back to the work of the group and hope that our actions speak louder than our words. =C= On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Michael J Burgess <michael@mjburgess.co.uk>wrote: > Hello, > I am a user of most of the technologies the "board members" here represent, > though not anyone of great importance in the community except for some IRC > input here and there and running some medium-sized sites of my own. > > I think the nature of this group is entirely appropriate, and commend its > formation. Discussion should be open so PHP developers themselves *can have > input*, but it would be irresponsible to allow everyone to vote. A vote in > this sphere should be delegated to those most competent and representative > and I believe the people here qualify. Sometimes people mistake merit for > pretence and suitability for arrogance. > > In any case, my email to this group was to request that its purpose and > means be now left aside and progress made on the standards themselves. I > would like to see an outline of the topics this group would like to cover, > it may then be appropriate to take each of these points in turn and debate > them. If there are any materials (besides this list) available, would > someone please post links? > Perhaps the outline could have voting dates scheduled for each topic so > that > > there is a sense of when this process may yield a draft. > > Michael > >