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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Are feature request bugs ever looked at?
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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Just a quick reply from my phone:
anybody can register a wiki account and anybody can get rfc karma after
sending a mail to the php-webmaster mailing list (this is a basic spam
protection).
about the rfc vs bug tracker: the wiki and the rfc process came later than
the bugtracker.
I would open a feature request ticket if I don't know how to proceed
further or I don't have the time to create and push an RFC. Otherwise I
would go with an rfc: albeit it requires more work from the reporter but
makes up for it because it provides much bigger visibility and guranteed
response from the developers.
2012.05.06. 16:28, "Dmitri Dmitrison" <dmitri200@gmail.com> ezt =C3=ADrta:

> Hi all,
>
> First time poster here... Just hoping to get some information.
> It says on bugs.php.net that the best way to 'support' a request, is to
> vote on it.
> However, the most voted feature requests rarely get so much as a reply fr=
om
> a PHP developer, let alone an implementation.
>
> I'm not being critical, I just wanna understand what is the official PHP
> team's stance on this issue?
> It seems to me there are two ways to submit requests now days - one via
> RFC, and one via the bug system.
>
> On one hand, I've witnessed some good RFCs come to life rather quickly...
> On the other, I've seen highly rated feature requests in the bug system l=
ay
> unattended for years and decades.
>
> So that just makes me wonder.
> Is anyone even checking the bug system for requests anymore?
> If the team feels strongly not to implement certain features, could you
> just reply to those tickets and close them?
> Would it be better to create RFCs instead?
>
> If so, how do we, mere users, go about doing it?
> Since it is not a open wiki, is there a person we can contact, who will
> create an RFC for us?
> Is there any other way to get response to a feature request? Can we post =
to
> internals about it?
> In general, what is the correct way to post feature requests if we want
> them to have any chance of getting accepted (or at least responded to)?
>
> The only path that's available to regular users - the bug tracker - seems
> to be utterly unresponsive, and that is frustrating.
> Again, I'm not trying to be negative, and maybe there is a FAQ somewhere
> with all the answers, that I'm just not seeing...
>
> Hopefully you can clarify this for me.
> Thank you.
>

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