Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Candidate Info for Home Page

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 20:29, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Hannes Magnusson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 20:23, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Hannes Magnusson
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 19:23, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Bringing back the discussion to the list, didn't meant to do this
>> >> > off-list.
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>> >> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Hannes Magnusson
>> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >> >> Sure, there is a lot of work still to be done, but I think its
>> >> >> valuable place for newcomers to see who are behind the project, and
>> >> >> much more valuable then listing random companies who have no
>> >> >> involvement at all.
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>> >> > Agree, but just for the record: I didn't suggested that we should
>> >> > list
>> >> > random companies who have no involvement at all. :)
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>> >> There are no companies behind PHP. There are random individuals behind
>> >> it. Some contributors do so on company time, but there is no company
>> >> that is actually developing PHP.
>> >> This list would then be a list of companies using PHP.. and where
>> >> would you draw the line there?
>> >> It will turn ugly very fast, and is imo not worth it.
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>> > Btw. what about Zend? :P
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>> What about them?
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> I asked first. :) You said, that there is no company behind the project.
> That was repeated numerous times in the mailing list (that php is developed
> by a few inviduals and the community, in the spare time of the contributors,
> etc.), but I think that there are some clear overlappings between the two
> group (zend and the php contributors). Quoting from zend.com:


What companies say on their websites is irrelevant.
The majority of contributors work on PHP in their spare time, but
there are also bunch of companies that let their employees contribute
to PHP on company time (and some even expect certain people too).
That however does not mean that those companies are in control of PHP
or have some sort of magical powers. They still have to go through the
normal channels.

Anyway. We obviously disagree here. So, find someone else thats
interested in this and try pushing the votes in your favor. Then, if
it works, just implement it.
Hope you will be around to maintain it for the next years :]

-Hannes