Re: Offical stance wrt. bug reports for unmaintained PECL exts

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > on a related note: I've marked both packages as unmaintained on pecl.php.net . -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu