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"What PHP really needs is: Strong leadership and an official process to submit new ideas, extensions", "New blood, and less old blood.", "A plan for the future
by citricsquid 15y ago
"What PHP really needs is: Strong leadership and an official process to submit new ideas, extensions", "New blood, and less old blood.", "A plan for the future of web development".
PHP is an opensource project: volunteer!
- daeken 15y agoPHP is an open source project, sure. But really, have you ever tried to volunteer for the PHP core? I've never gone through a more painful process -- so much political bullshit, resistance to change (even backwards-compatible change), and echo chamber nonsense. I attempted to volunteer on PHP for a long while, but finally realized it just wasn't worth it and gave up.
- Produce 15y agoSomeone should fork the damn thing.
- sc68cal 15y agoSomeone did. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640756 Self plug: I cleaned up his original repo and put the patch against the official PHP git repo. https://github.com/sc68cal/php-src https://github.com/sc68cal/php-src
- Zak 15y agoFrom what I've observed, when people try to contribute things most programmers, and even most PHP users consider to be improvements, the core team seems to reject them. Array literals are the example that jumps to mind, but I know I've seen other things along the same lines. The core team has a vision for PHP that doesn't match what most of us think of as good, so few people waste their time trying to fix it.