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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Outstanding php.net account requests
From: thruska@cubiclesoft.com (Thomas Hruska)

On 12/5/2017 7:21 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Di, 2017-12-05 at 14:57 +0100, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>> On 05.12.2017 at 14:34, Pedro Magalhães wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlue
>>> ters.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> we currently have 118 outstanding php.net account requests going
>>>> back
>>>> to October 2016. If you recently tried to onboard somebody could
>>>> you
>>>> verify whether they are still unapproved? If somebody creates a
>>>> mass-
>>>> edit interface this would also be great, as the CSRF protection
>>>> makes
>>>> deleting obvious spam requests a bit more annoying than it
>>>> neeeded. :-D
>>>>
>>>> If you see legit requests drop me (or somebody else with powers)
>>>> a note
>>>> (including what kind of svn/git karma is needed) and I can set it
>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>> https://master.php.net/manage/users.php?search=&order=&forward=0&
>>>> begin=
>>>> 0&max=20&unapproved=1 (I believe this is visible to all @php.net
>>>> account holders)
>>> To add to that, AFAIK new requests via http://php.net/git-php.php
>>> are not
>>> sending the e-mail they should to this mailing list (PHP Group).
>>> Hence the
>>> large number of outstanding requests without follow-up.
>> An additional issue is that many account requests are made for PECL
>> accounts as well, and not everybody who has karma to approve or
>> reject
>> VCS account requests has karma to handle PECL account requests.
>> Furthermore, while some have karma to approve VCS accounts, they may
>> not
>> have karma to grant karma – so approving the accounts without
>> granting
>> actual karma does not really make sense.
> 
> One question we need to answer there is "what should pecl be"? Do we
> want to bring PECL extensions onto php infrastructure (shared bug
> tracker, git.php.net which gives control to php.net i.e. for finding
> successors) or should PECL be a repository with pointers to github and
> therelike? In the first case we should work on unifying the accounts.
> In the later case we should look into sizing the PECL site down and try
> to have an "pecl" installer which can fetch stuff directly from git,
> similar to packagist.org, then we could simplify the process there ..

PHP documentation access might be the deciding factor here in answering 
that question.

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