Re: Re: [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup

On 13.06.2018 at 16:48, Sara Golemon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not sure it's too late for 7.3. If we see that the extension is >> unmaintained, we could move it out for 7.3 I think. > > Well, you and cmb are the RMs for 7.3, so you get the largest say in > that, but IMO we won't finish sorting out the RFC and get through vote > in time for feature freeze and pulling out whole extensions feels like > a pretty hefty change to make at that point. Yes, the extensions > still exist in PECL, so I wouldn't vote down based on the timeline, > but it does make me nervous. The “Release Process” RFC states[1]: | But they [the roles of the RMs] are not: | * Decide which features, extension or SAPI get in a release or not That said, in my opinion it is too late for 7.3 to move a bundled extension to PECL, except perhaps for unresolved or even unresolvable security reasons. ext/wddx comes to mind, and maybe there are others. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess#rms_role> -- Christoph M. Becker