On 2/20/2013 2:35 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
Hi Paul,
My thesis is the other way round. More people in the community need
to become PHP core developers. This is historically how PHP
development has occurred, since nobody has idle time to adopt projects
they are not 100% behind.
Increasing user involvement is easier (and more often) said than done.
I'd prefer to see effort spent mentoring, rather than running surveys.
I've suggested this very thing in the past and even with a framework (albeit only in an email thread), I think a mentoring program of sorts would really benefit the core team.
It could even be kept in small groups where 1 mentor dedicates to answer and/or find the answer for a group of 1 to 2 people who are keen on learning to help with the core.
I would think that a separate mailing list for this type of mentorship would probably make sense, just to keep the chaffe off the internals list to a minimum.
It would take some (at least 1) of the current core developers to step up and commit to helping. I ran into a lot of trouble learning what I know about the core and most of the tough question I had went unanswered for one reason or another, was quite infuriating at the time.
I do have a lot of reservations about a survey. But if you do run
one, I'm sure I'll look at the results.
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-Clint