Thanks Brian,
I sincerely feel that many PHP developers have their hands tied in
several ways. The least of which being that the reported bugs are often
not immediately and easily reproducible in a sane build environment that
is easily accessible to the developer.
To a developer who is voluntarily tasked with fixing a bug, their entire
environment is called into question or is suspect as being inexact.
This same issue does not exist for the bug reporter, who may post
reports with verbiage such as "look! look! it doesn't work!" and demand
restitution, back-pay, pay-back and public reprimand when the often
quirky, obscure, un-reproducible fix is not immediately submitted to a
time-tested and stable code base.
Both sides are understandable, however, it would be a benefit to both
parties to have some immediately accessible environments that are
up-to-date, hopelessly obscure in their own right, and offer the
developer a sane benchmark with which to base a prognosis.
Again, this idea may be a waste of time if this situation does not
exist, but I think it's workable.
-Rob
Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
