I think there was a lot of good and positive talk in the past few emails.
Let me summarize:
a) There are still people who have to fix some of their extension and are actually working on them. These fixes should definitely be in PHP 5 and the RC.
b) There are people who are working on new or major rewrites of their extensions such as Shane and Marcus, who acknowledge that when they are done, their extensions will be released. I understand from Marcus that he's fine to have PDO in 5.0.0 or 5.0.1 whatever is relevant. As PDO is something many are waiting for, no matter when it is released as stable, people will start using it.
c) There are bastard extensions such as Java and Corba (I thought that Java was fixed by Wez) and no one is touching them. I believe that no release of PHP can wait indefinitely for someone to take ownership and fix such extensions. We will either need to remove them or pray someone picks them up quickly (although I still think Java is supposed to work). In any case, we are talking about two very non mainstream extensions here. It's not as if the Java one is a very feasible extension to use in production environments because it's slooooooowwww and heavy.
d) If you're an extension maintainer or just a good guy, please take a look at the bug reports.
So I suggest the following, let's kick ourselves in the tush, aim for Beta 3 on the 30th of November, and hopefully after that we can do a feature freeze and go into bug fixing only mode. We can re-evaluate this date as we get closer in case people are really having a hard time getting their stuff done. But we can't wait for people who just don't have time in the next few months. That doesn't make sense.
How's that? :)
Andi
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