Morning internals, Some of you may have noticed that a few of us have put considerable effort into cleanup of pull requests on github, these are now manageable and I'm quite confident that we will be able to merge pull requests in a timely manner, and stay on top of it.
When it comes to bugsnet, there are feature requests and bugs that have been open for more than 10 years, and nobody has talked about them in about as long, they may concern defunct versions of PHP, or removed extensions or SAPIs: These numbers in the thousands. It's very difficult (impossible) to see a good reason for these to be open, they are not useful at all. With normal support for 5 ended, now is the perfect time to cleanup bugsnet. If we can get the numbers down to something manageable, we have a reasonable expectation to stay on top of them. I think anyone that has been waiting a number of years for a response to a feature request deserves to know that it is not reasonably happening, and that there are better ways of trying to get a feature in than opening yet-another-feature-request on bugsnet. I think any bug report opened against 4 and not updated is useless. I think anything with a patch attached targeting 5 is useless, regardless of age; they should be encouraged to open a pull request on github against a supported branch. I'd like to hear what others think about cleaning up bugsnet, what criteria we might use for a mass cleanup. After a mass cleanup, I/we will go in and start working through whatever is left, but 5k mostly irrelevant bugs is too much to ask, it would take me months and months to work through those, time that nobody has, or will ever have. Cheers Joe
