It is clear that this is about PHP and not Drupal specifically. This is why I had OT (short for off topic).
However, being a PHP application, it is always important for us to know what happens upstream of us because it may affect our future development.
The rest of your points are valid of course. Drupal is used for building community sites (among other things), and we should be a good community too.
Apart from Drupal being a PHP application, is there any direct relation to Drupal?
At first I didn't quite get it, an I thought it's about Drupal's security team. This didn't quite sit well with the good spirit the Drupal community succeeded to build.
Whatever the truth is, in the PHP team, let this be a lesson for us, to always maintain the (rare) mature conversations and debates the Drupal community conducts.
As few posts recently stated - this is a key factor for success and progress.
Khalid B wrote:Just an FYI
Stefan Esser leaves the PHP security team.
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/82500
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/14/0410240