Re: Updates needed to various RFCs
> On 11 Aug 2024, at 13:59, Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On a general note, the whole administrative part of the RFC process
> feels like we're stuck in the 20th century. For instance, to start the
> vote, you are supposed to:
>
> * update the RFC page to "voting" status
> * add the doodle voting macro
> * add the voting start and end dates to the text of the RFC
> * move the RFC to "voting" on the RFC overview page
> * send an email to the ML announcing the start of voting
>
> Wut? Might as well ask me to send a punched card to someone.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
I'd be willing to bet that PHP community members would gladly reimplement the RFC system,
voting, etc. and gift that to the PHP Group. However, whenever these conversations popup on
internals, it is received with resistance to change and with unsound requirements such as "we
can't use any PHP framework to not seem like we favour one group over the other".
What's left behind is exactly what you described here: outdated process and implementation. The
PHP community spent a large chunk of work in the late 2010s just to phase out corporate homemade
frameworks for the usual maintenance reasons.
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