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[nycphp-talk] PHP.NET webmasters

George Herson gherson at snet.net
Tue Jul 30 17:42:32 EDT 2002


Kyle Tuskey wrote:
> Can we all stop crying for a few moments to recognize how much time the
> people that work on the site and documentation take out of their lives
> for no money?  

yes, moments allocated.

> If you have a problem with it then join the team and help
> them, otherwise stop bitching.  

yes, if the attitudes smelled like team spirit i'd probably be more tempted.

george

As for the bug system... the open-srm
> crew was working on Bubar, a new bug system, for php.net.  I worked on
> it a bit with them, but time constraints didn't allow much of my time.
> Last I heard Derrick and Jani had put the application on hold, until
> time there was more time available.
> 
> 
> -Kyle
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Herson [mailto:gherson at snet.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:31 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP.NET webmasters
> 
> yes, the fascist php.net people (and zend i must say) have left me
> wistful for a 
> generous Larry Wall (or Hans Z. :) character, or even a benevolent
> dictator.
> 
> php.net webmasters ignore 100% of my suggestions and questions which is
> their 
> right, but you've got to warn your users if your bug reporting system is
> 
> connected to a Usenet, as in permanently archived, mailing list.  That's
> bad 
> when you've packed the report full of personal contact info like i did. 
> Hopefully they fixed it. I did let Rasmus Lerdorf know a couple times
> about it.
> 
> I also couldn't understand how they could add commands to the language
> w/o 
> having a better definition of what it actually did.  Surely the person
> who 
> implemented the command/function could have provided a decent
> description with 
> example.  Lately the site has obviously fleshed-out, however.
> 
> george
> 
> nyphp at jimbishop.org wrote:
> 
>>has anyone else had the displeasure of speaking to anyone on the
>>webmaster's list for php.net?  i sent them some mail this morning
> 
> where i
> 
>>outlined a problem i had finding some documentation on monday, and
> 
> they
> 
>>went psycho, insinuating that i can't read and all kinds of
>>nonsense.  they were really rude.
>>
>>has anyone else had this experience?
>>
>>jim.bishop
>>
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