How much involvement do you have with PHP development today?A lot less now than 10 or 15 years ago, that’s for sure.But I still read the mailing lists every day discuss features and fix bugs occasionally.Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.I’m as involved as I have been in years.What’s the structure of the PHP team? It doesn’t seem clear.There is no structure!Who makes the final decisions?We do. We have a mailing list called Internals that’s completely openanyone can subscribe to it, read it, post to it and I’ve always been insistent on keeping the process transparent.Anybody can go back and read the mailing list archives to figure out how we got to any one position.It tends to be that code wins.If two groups are arguing, but one group has an implementation and the other doesn’t, well, the implementation wins.It almost doesn’t matter how braindead it is; if we should have the feature, but we can’t agree on the implementation, we’ll go with whoever builds it.Is there pressure to be the final arbiter of decisions?Sure, there is. I’ve always tried to downplay that role, because I don’t want to have the final say in a lot of these things.I want the project to be self-sufficient and I wanted to be self-propelling.
