standards group

There's been a lot of controversy around the PHP Standards group that was formed around May of 2009 and how they've handled the decision making process.

They want to provide a standard that frameworks and other applications can follow to help making them all play nicely together a much easier process.

Unfortunately, they decided to go the "closed source" way. Greg Beaver has posted some of his thoughts on their approach.

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a new episode of the PHP Abstract podcast featuring a roundtable with Eli White, Keith Casey and Cal Evans talking about the future of the PHP language and standards that need to accompany it.

On the echolibre blog there's a recent post looking at the recent meeting of the (Recommended) Standards Group at this year's php|tek:

Travis Swicegood, a member of the Standards Group that has formed in the PHP community, has posted some of his own thoughts about the group and what kinds of goals he sees it having.

Lukas Smith has voiced some of his own opinions on the Standards Group from an outsider's point of view (Lukas is a well-known member of the PHP community but not a part of the Standards Group).

Stefan Koopmanschap has posted some comments of his own (as a participant of the Standards Group) about the group, its purpose and why they're handing things the way they are.

Following up on the announcements of the standards group being formed and meeting at this year's php|tek conference, Keith Casey has posted some of how own thoughts about why he thinks that the group's approach might not be such a bad thing.