As Paul Jones mentions in his latest post to his site, the much talked-about PSR standards that were proposed by the PHP-FIG group, PSR-1 and PSR-2, have been accepted.

Earlier today, the PHP Framework Interoperability Group accepted two standards recommendations. [...] There's been a lot of commentary about these proposals over the past two weeks, some of it positive and some of it negative.

He includes links to some of the commentary that's been made about the standards recently, and spends some time responding to some of the negative comments specifically, like:

• What the hell is the "PHP Standards" group? I've never heard of it before now.
• Why are you guys so secretive and closed?
• So once I join the list, I can vote on PHP-FIG Standards Recommendations? Sweet!
• Whatever. I don't need you guys telling me what to do. If I don't want to follow your so-called "standards" then you can't make me.