Hi Larry, On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 9:48 AM Larry Garfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks. We have a number of new people on the list in the last 2 weeks > with RFC proposals, which is great to see and I like a number of them. > (Whether my PHPVerse talk on the RFC process played a factor in that, I could > not say. :-) )
Thanks for this post! It is pretty good to see those reminders :) > However, as some have hinted, we are currently very close to the feature > freeze date for PHP 8.6, and attention of both RFC reviewers and code > reviewers should be focused on proposals that are trying to finish up in time > for 8.6. Any "new business" that won't realistically make it into 8.6 would > be better held until things cool down somewhat to give everyone some > breathing room. > > There is no official policy on this, so this isn't an order to anyone. > However, it is a polite request: If your RFC or brainstorm isn't already in > play and realistically targeting 8.6, please hold off for now. We can pick > up "new business" again around 1 September or so, when the feature freeze > rush is well past us. (I know of a few high-impact RFCs that are waiting for > them already.) Just for the thread record, as a RFC does not require 100% implementation done to be accepted, https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ext-gd-2.4 is almost done. Some new methods are being considered for completeness (like quantization method, with option for the mode), but those are thin wrappers in ext/gd, no new implementation under the hood. That's also what this RFC does, it removes all non php binding related logic out of the ext/gd/* and moves to ext/gd/libgd or use alternative existing APIs instead. Warm regards, -- Pierre @pierrejoye
