> -----Original Message----- > From: Pascal Chevrel [mailto:pascal.chev...@free.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:58 PM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Group, what is it? (was Re:PHP Language > Specification) > > Could somebody that was in the project 15 years ago explain us what was > the > idea, duties and responsabilities that this group was supposed to have?
That group is simply the key people who created the project some 15+, or rather almost 20 years ago. It's mostly defunct as a governing body at this point, with practically all decisions happening here on internals@; It's still there as, and it's theoretically still the group that holds the copyright and the right to change fundamental things like the license, although in practice, this too will happen through RFCs if it ever does, most probably. I'd say its main goal today is to be a last line of defense in case of a hostile attempt of Perl activists to take over internals@ :) Ideally we don't need to defer anything to this group, and handle mostly everything in RFCs. BTW, the Authors list could definitely use some updates, and IIRC, Ferenc actually worked on that recently for 5.6.0. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
