Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Releasepackaged
[email protected] ("Manuel Lemos")
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Hello Paul, On 21-May-00 18:46:54, you wrote: >>>Release early, release often. It is pretty much as simple as that. It >>>keeps the project dynamic, it keeps people interested and it keeps things >>>fun. Only a few of the PHP developers actually do this as their fulltime >>>job. Probably only Zeev and Andi right now. For the rest of us it is >>>more of a hobby, so you are completely right in saying that it isn't done >>>in a professional manner. This is the very definition of large open >> >>That's right and that's precisely PHP wastes big chances of being more >>accepted as a serious solution among the world of companies that are >>willing to pay for Web development services. >> >>This may not affect you if you don't do Web development for a living. But >>that affects many of us that are specialized in PHP based Web development >>and loose work opportunities every day because PHP is not even very well >>known among paying clients, and even among those that know it, PHP is not >>credible enough because it carries the bad reputation of less professional >>free software development. >You are complaining that the PHP developers don't work in such a way >as to maximize your opportunities to make money. You're missing my point. My suggestions were not meant to solve my particular problems, but rather to make PHP credibility improve among the community of developers and companies that do Web development for a living. Once the credibility of freely available software improves everybody benefits, not just me. Even you will sell more MySQL books. Is this so hard to understand? >Given that most of those developers are volunteering their time, >and given that PHP is free, and given that no one is forcing you >to use PHP, I would hazard a guess that your argument has little >or no persuasive force to those developers. Are you sure? I don't mean to claim any credit, but it seems like what I have been saying made sense to several developers that have just closed many bug reports, in particular of reproducible bugs. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/[email protected] -- E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --