On: 25 Years of PHP

[swongel]

Afaik after the whole PHPixie scandal, they got backlash but the PSR standards they adopted are still in use.

PHPixie thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/php-fig/cjLBp2weYaA

[geerlingguy → swongel]

Oh my. I lol’ed at the comment:

> A big +1 to what Robert said. Let's not be the PHP Drama Group or the PHP Court of Social Justice.

It seems like all these “groups that have arbitrary mechanisms for becoming a member and have some sway in the wider community” eventually end up becoming a giant ball of drama and controversy.

[shockinglytrue → geerlingguy]

But doesn't that criteria also describe every open source mailing list ever?