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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:37:58 +0200
Subject: namespace RFC
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)

Hello all,

All the recent discussions about namespaces, have left many of us  
wondering if our implementation is rock solid or not. However the  
discussions were not really well organized. This is why I am thankful  
that Marcus and Felipe have spend the better part of this Sunday to  
write an RFC [1] that hopefully summarizes all the key concerns. Also  
they have created a patch that they feel addresses the concerns.

So I ask you all to review the RFC and provide feedback. If you feel  
something is missing, the best approach is probably to work with  
Marcus and Felipe directly to get your concerns added. Only if there  
is a difference of opinion in this process should this be brought to  
internals. This way we can hopefully keep the discussion more focused  
on actual differences, while making sure that the RFC covers most  
concerns in one coherent document. If there are very large and  
fundamental differences in opinion I encourage the creation of an  
alternate RFC (and patch in case the RFC requires changes to the  
codebase - which means you can also write an RFC to clarify the  
current behavior on why it makes sense).

As you all hopefully know we have planned an alpha2 release for next  
Tuesday [2]. At this stage I guess we should continue with that plan  
and in case we need to make any bigger changes to namespaces (like  
this RFC suggests), we will probably have to accept an alpha3 release  
within 2-3 weeks time. Can't say I am happy about this, but I am quite  
positive that bringing this discussion to a slightly more formal level  
will give us a chance to make sure that in the end we can release PHP  
5.3.0 with confidence.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org

[1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespacecurlies
[2] http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53