Hi Stas! On 15.08.2016 at 07:53, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> I'd like to propose an RFC to deal with extensions that currently have > no maintainer: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions > > The main goal of the RFC is to initiate the process that by the time of > 7.1 release will result in no extensions in PHP core being unmaintained. > The process would be as follows: > > 1. Issue a call for maintainers (specific details of how, where, etc. > are to be discussed, ideas welcome). > 2. Wait for suitable time and hopefully find new maintainers for most or > all extensions. For some stable ones not much commitment is needed > beyond declaring you are willing to be responsible for them, should the > need arise, for others some bugfixing may be in order :) > 3. If after suitable time we can not find anybody to care enough for the > extension to be responsible, move the extension from core to PECL. > > Please note that the ideal result is 2, not 3, but the goal is still to > have no unmaintained extensions in core. I think it is *very* important to finally tackle this topic. Since it is rather late for actually moving several extensions to PECL for PHP 7.3, and since this would be an ongoing process anyway, I suggest to turn the RFC into a general RFC regarding “Process and Policy” – basically, to decide on clear rules regarding maintainership of extensions and moving of orphaned extensions to PECL. Individual extensions could than be handled without the need for much discussion and be resolved with a simple RFC/voting (or maybe even without). -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
