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22nd November 2008
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State of the Community: Panel Discussion at PHPNW
7 CommentsWe’re very happy to announce the final element in the schedule for the PHP North West conference in Manchester. This will be a panel discussion on the topic “State of the Community” and will bring together some of the leading lights of the community to discuss the PHP community as a whole, how people can get involved, and how the community relates to PHP as a day job. If there’s a question you’d like to see the panel answer, please post it in the comments below and we’ll include as many as we can!
Published on October 13, 2008 · Filed under: Uncategorized;
[...] PHPNW conference crew have just announced a newly added session to finish off the conference day – a panel discussion about the current state [...]
Q: Has PHP5 negatively affected open-source/community projects?
“Back in the day”, I remember a lot of active and new open-source PHP projects. These were mostly small scripts like “newsletter management” and a few bigger things like forums. You’d go to sites like hotscripts.com to get them.
With the quality-bar being raised in PHP5 projects (good OOP-design, unit-testing) have “our expectations” discouraged people from writing new code/projects? I feel are many fewer “PHP5″ forums out there than there are “PHP4″, for example.
There’s also the issue of forking projects / not embracing PHP5 in order to keep PHP4 support. Has this stagnated the growth of community projects and PHP5 adoption generally? Then there’s PEAR… great for PHP4 days but there still isn’t a PEAR2.
Is the increase in adoption of frameworks starting to divide the community? I.e. CakePHP vs Zend Framework vs Symfony
[...] week we announced the final addition to the schedule for the PHPNW conference – the “State of the Community” panel [...]
[...] see our “State of the Community” panel answer, then you should add a comment here or at the original post – we’ll ask the questions and ask the panel to respond in turn … There may be some [...]
Do frameworks help or hinder supporting legacy code.
In say 3 years time will inspecting an application built in a ‘non-supported’ version of a framework you havent specialised in be easier than an equivalent situation today. Bottom line have we canned the spaghetti or just developed new brands.
a) Do you think the core language should support exceptions (presumably they would be ‘enabled’ through an ini_set() mechanism at run time)?
b) Why do other languages like Python and Ruby seem to get so much more developer ‘love’ – do you think the PHP core community needs restructuring to resemble e.g. the Python model?
c) If you could change any one thing about PHP, what would it be?