That closing appeal to deal with the abusiveness of the php.internals list fell a little flat given the opening statement of "shut up". I loved Rasmus' answer to this though.

http://news.php.net/php.internals/64771

    > The vision has been the same for years. A general purpose scripting
    > language with a focus on web development. You are simply saying you want
    > the vision to be more specific than that because everyone has a
    > different view of what web development means. But even if we narrow the
    > vision, it will still be open to a lot interpretation. We try to strike
    > a balance between the different and changing views of web development
    > the same way we strike a balance between appealing to weekend warriors
    > and top-100 trafficed sites. No vision statement is going to answer the
    > question of whether annotations should be in docblocks or in the core
    > language. That's simply not what vision statements do.
    > 
    > -Rasmus

Maintaining clarity of purpose in a project can be difficult sometimes. Kudos to Rasmus for managing to do so in the midst of what looks like it's gearing up to be another php.internals shitstorm.