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