Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:12352 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97433 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Aug 2004 01:34:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97409 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2004 01:34:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asuka.prohost.org) (69.196.31.138) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 2004 01:34:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 670 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2004 01:34:11 -0000 Received: from rei.nerv (HELO dummy.com) (rei@192.168.1.1) by asuka.nerv with SMTP; 26 Aug 2004 01:34:11 -0000 Reply-To: ilia@prohost.org To: internals@lists.php.net, "Naik, Roshan" Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:34:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: In-Reply-To: Organization: Prohost.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <200408252134.18397.ilia@prohost.org> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) On August 25, 2004 08:32 pm, Naik, Roshan wrote: > " And exactly how long is it expected to continue to stay EXPERIMENTAL > ?" > > The response was a predictable one, expressing indifference... > > "Between 15 days and 15 months" I'm afraid Derick's response was somewhat incorrect. Here is a more precise answer to your question. Whenever the developer can be bothered to remove the EXPERIMENTAL file. The probability of said event is somewhere between your chances of winning a lottery and getting hit a by car. You can however increase the probability of the extension becoming "stable" by making meaningful contributions such as writing patches and/or giving developer(s) incentives to put more time towards extension's development. Ilia