The document discusses the state of PHP development. It outlines both positive and negative aspects of PHP's development process. Positives include an open RFC process for voting on new features and improvements to security and release processes. Negatives mentioned are slow release cycles, unsecure code, and a closed community. The document also promotes contributing to PHP projects and lists some upcoming features like improved password hashing, property getter/setter syntax, generators, and finally blocks.
9. RFC
process
hSps://wiki.php.net/rfc/voUng
• Anyone
can
submit
a
RFC
• Votes
– Communi;es
–
php.net
members
• If
accepted,
released
in
php-‐next
(<=
1
year)
10. Release
Process
• Security
only
releases
• Bugs
fixes
releases
every
1-‐2
months
(~)
• Yearly
releases
with
new
features
(i.e.
5.4)
hSps://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess