A month or two ago, we ran a poll with three options: drop get_ from method names, add set_ to others, or leave it as is. The result was overwhelmingly for the second option, adding set_.

One month ago, I changed the methods that directly interact with the SimplePie class. This proved controversial, despite the fact people writing PHP really should know that development code should not be relied upon, knowing that it may not work, or break backwards compatibility without warning. There’s been various discussions arguments about whether other verbs (such as enable) should be used in some of the method names. Anyone got any thoughts?

The second issue is to do with SimplePie_Item::get_description(). If we’re to have two methods – one that gets the description, and another that gets the content (or description, if that doesn’t exist), what should the methods be called? I’m in favour of the description method being SimplePie_Item::get_description() and the content method being SimplePie_Item::get_content(), thereby breaking backwards compatibility; however, I’m open to suggestions.

Lastly, anyone interested in mailing lists, for either announcements or support?