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Subject: New "PECL"
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

Hi there!

Within the PHP Foundation, we have been talking for a while as what to 
do with PECL, and its website.

The code is old, and hard to maintain. And the database is full of 
mojibake. It is also an outdated method of installing things, especially 
because userland code is so much easier to handle through Composer.

Through the Sovereign Tech Fund (https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/) the 
Foundation has acquired some funding to improve this situation.

Hence, to start of replacing PECL with something applicable for this 
decade, we started working on a requirements document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_N0E9xo3jn9aKrIZHIbTYaY5lXw71BpSO6-it4cRpDo

In this first stage, we would like to invite you in commenting on the 
document (either inline, or here).

Please keep in mind that this is a requirements document, and should not 
contain either design or implementation details. Once we have thought 
about these details as well, this will be turned into an RFC.

cheers,
Derick

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