Prominent PHP Users or developers, do your homework (or be humble and keep quiet).
Posted by Pierre in
PHP
Thursday, November 9. 2006
It becomes more than annoying to read slides or blog posts from some prominent member of the PHP Community about things they do not know. It is for a warning. It is not aimed to be diplomatic or to target any particular person or group of persons (even if some are obvious 
. But one thing is sure, we have to worry about what we say about other projects or other developers work.
Why do you…
- talk about something but has little/no clue about it?
- make conclusions with using facts or your own opinion?
- wait the day of the release to talk about possible issues?
- not describe how good your ideas/developments/PHP is without saying that Foo On Rail, BarSql suck or that “I” killed Web 0.7?
For all this question I only see one answer, self promotion, aggressive marketing and ego boosters. They are all annoying.
- learn what you are talking about and keep your knowledge up to date (especially for new features, they change a lot during the first year)
- don’t make conclusions if you don’t even try the softwares
- don’t use “suck”, “crap” “eat on its head” or other stupid words to describe concurrent technologies or other people work, it does not help PHP and is everything but constructive
- Your talks or blogs are no bug report, mail php-internal, report a bug or ping the devs on IRC (idle is also not constructive)
- Don’t wait the release day to make your own promotion on our backs. All PHP releases may introduce new issues, that’s why we have RC and that’s why you (esp. if you are a PHP developer) should test them and report issues or fix them yourself (patch or commit)!
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