Offical stance wrt. bug reports for unmaintained PECL exts

From: Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:59:53 +0000
Subject: Offical stance wrt. bug reports for unmaintained PECL exts
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Hi everybody! It seems there are a lot of (old) bug reports for unmaintained PECL extensions. I wonder what the official stance is on that. For instance, there is #57551[1], which has been "suspended" by Joe Watkins recently. I'm not too happy with "suspending" those bug reports, because they're lying around without a realistic chance of getting fixed, and come up from time to time when looking for a "random bug". Then there is #58612[2] which is about an extension that had its only release in 2003, and its latest commits 5 years ago (apparently, some standard commits for several PECL packages). Wouldn't it make sense to close such bug reports ("Sorry, but you're using an unmaintained extension ..."?). Thoughts? [1] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57551> [2] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58612> -- Christoph M. Becker

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