Hello Nikita, yes, sure, I’ll have this in mind and participate more - be more vocal about my opinions and experience with static analysis and quality code when discussing new language changes. Thank you.
On Sat 11. 7. 2020 at 10:19, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:19 AM Ondřej Mirtes <ond...@mirtes.cz> wrote: > >> The main reason is to be able to vote on PHP RFCs. I've created and have >> been maintaining PHPStan, a popular open-source static analyser. >> >> This submission is endorsed by Gabriel Caruso, a current release manager >> of >> PHP 8. >> >> My wiki.php.net username is: ondrejmirtes >> >> Thank you. >> >> Ondřej Mirtes >> > > Hi Ondrej, > > I believe it is important to remember that voting is just the last step of > the RFC process: While the vote is the final arbiter, the discussion phase > that precedes it is where concerns are heard and the proposal is shaped. > > Granting voting rights to persons not contributing to projects under the > php.net umbrella has historically been a bit of a touchy topic. The last > request of this type by Nicolas Grekas was granted specifically because he > was already a long-time active participant of the PHP internals mailing > list, and provided valuable insight, especially regarding the impact of > changes in PHP on Symfony and its ecosystem. > > I think that this is an important criterion. Before granting voting > requests, I would really like to see some participation in RFC discussions > on the mailing list. A vote is just a single bit of information, while your > thoughtful insight on how language changes may interact with static > analysis will help shape proposals in a much more significant way. > > Regards, > Nikita > -- Ondřej Mirtes
