Re: [RFC] Policy on 3rd party code

Hi, On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:38 PM Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > Since Jim's RFC proposal was criticized for being too vague, I hereby > offer a somewhat more prescriptive policy proposal on using 3rd party > code. (With JIm's blessing.) It's still more heuristics than rules, but I > think that's the right approach generally. It also includes a voting > mechanism to resolve edge cases when they come up. > > I'm sure we'll bikeshed it to death, but please keep an open mind about > the concept in the first place. PHP is more than just php-src, and that's > a good thing. We need to catch up with that reality, while at the same > time maintaining a reasonable neutrality about projects Internals doesn't > manage directly. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/third-party-code > > I think it would be better to have just a light RFC introducing the basic idea and create a PR against policies repo because that's where the wording matters. We should be really voting on those PR's rather than create policy RFC and then create PR that might have a different wording... Regards Jakub