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Re: [PHP3] 3.0.6 binaries for Win32! From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 01/04/99

> Also, I was planning on donating some to the PHP dev team
> (http://www.php.net/funding.php3)...one thing you might want to consider
> doing (with all the spare time you don't have ;) is put up a 'wish list' of
> stuff you need, to further inspire those of us who want to donate $$$,
> equipment, or server space.

It is sort of a slush fund. I probably should explain it better on the
page. So far the only things we have used it for is to help Shane buy a
decent development box, a couple of books, and a couple of copies of
MSVC++.

We don't really have too many needs. Occasionally some things do pop up
though. The sort of donations I appreciate most is the time that people
donate to help improve PHP. There are the people contributing code, of
course, but there are also people like Egon who tirelessly work on the
rather dull and thankless job of helping to document all this stuff. So,
if you, or anybody else out there really wants to help, a great way to do
so is to set off a couple of hours every week devoted to PHP issues. Go
through the online docs and write up some small and concise example
scripts for any of the hundreds of functions that currently don't have any
examples, or find a chapter or a section that you think could be improved,
rewritten or added and contribute that. And if you are a coder, look
around for cool things that could be added to PHP or look at existing
things and see how they might be improved. Some things I see that someone
could attack right now would be:

 . Add an snmpset() function to functions/snmp.c
 . Add support for Allaire's WDDX stuff (discussed on php-dev, but no code
   has shown up yet)
 . Test/fix the semaphore/shared memory functions on OS's like Irix, HPUX,
   AIX, etc. I think they have only been tested on Linux and Solaris so
   far.
 . Rewrite the dbm (functions/db.c) support code to allow a PHP script to
   use gdbm, Berkeley DB, ndbm, etc. concurrently and interchangeably in a
   clean manner. Currently you can only compile one of them in at
   compile-time.
 . If you know your way around MSVC++ and the Windows platform in general,
   pitch in and help out Shane with whatever he needs done. Things like
   testing and porting various libraries from Unix to Windows.

And finally, we can always use people who are good at problem solving to
go through the bug database every week. It is at
http://ca.php.net/bugs.php3

A lot of the bugs that are open are closeable if someone takes the time to
really figure out what the bug report is talking about. A lot of them are
a bit vague and it takes a bit of effort to narrow down what exactly the
problem is. A bit of correspondence with the submitter and a summary of
the problem sent to php-dev should help close some of these open bug
reports quicker. We are already pretty quick though. The median life of
a bug report is 31 hours and 11 minutes. That means that half of all bug
reports submitted are resolved within 31 hours. The stats for the bug
tracking system are online at: http://ca.php.net/bugstats.php3

-Rasmus 

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