Hi Stas

2013/7/19 Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>

> > Indeed we started with the easy ones... there isn't any reason simple
> > patches
> > won't get merged very quickly.
>
> There's a very simple reason - there are not enough people with enough
> knowledge about PHP internals to properly evaluate patches that do it on
> regular basis. Even the simplest patch takes time, at least if you do it
> the right way - you have to read it, understand if it's right, pull it,
> build with it, run tests with it if it has tests, merge it to multiple
> branches, etc. - this takes time. Time is a scarce resource.


I completely agree.

Why don't we state this fact in bugs.php.net and github that bug/PR will
take time to be addresses?

It's better to give contributors expectation how long it may take time to
be addresses?

It's not a solution, but it's better than nothing.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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