Wez Furlong posted a request for comments to the php.internals and php.pdo mailing lists yesterday about a new ly proposed update to the current PDO functionality - PDO 2. He just wants to clear up a few things...

It became apparent over the past year or so that PDO has been a good and valuable addition to PHP. [...] We believe that having direct involvement from the data access providers would be most effective, which is why we set out to try and get them on board.

There were three steps they would need to make to push things to version two (documentation, define scope/direction and organize data provider integration methods) and the proposal that has caused a huge stir in the community - the idea of requiring a CLA contributors would need to sign.

Comments to this point from the community include:

• Richard Thomas
• Antony Dovgal
• some of Wez's own comments
• Mike Willbanks
• Christopher Jones
• Lukas Smith
• Paul Jones
• Pierre-Alain Joye
• Jay Pipes
• Derick Rethans
• Marco Tabini
• Kristian Kohntopp
• Some PDO humor from David Coallier and Travis Swicegood
• Marcus Borger (and his part two)
• Richard Heyes
• Till's blog entry
• Say No to the CLA