Hi folks. We have a number of new people on the list in the last 2 weeks with RFC proposals, which is great to see and I like a number of them. (Whether my PHPVerse talk on the RFC process played a factor in that, I could not say. :-) )
However, as some have hinted, we are currently very close to the feature freeze date for PHP 8.6, and attention of both RFC reviewers and code reviewers should be focused on proposals that are trying to finish up in time for 8.6. Any "new business" that won't realistically make it into 8.6 would be better held until things cool down somewhat to give everyone some breathing room.
There is no official policy on this, so this isn't an order to anyone. However, it is a polite request: If your RFC or brainstorm isn't already in play and realistically targeting 8.6, please hold off for now. We can pick up "new business" again around 1 September or so, when the feature freeze rush is well past us. (I know of a few high-impact RFCs that are waiting for then already.)
Cheers all.
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Larry Garfield
larry@garfieldtech.com
Hi Larry,
Hi folks. We have a number of new people on the list in the last 2 weeks with RFC proposals, which is great to see and I like a number of them. (Whether my PHPVerse talk on the RFC process played a factor in that, I could not say. :-) )
Thanks for this post! It is pretty good to see those reminders :)
However, as some have hinted, we are currently very close to the feature freeze date for PHP 8.6, and attention of both RFC reviewers and code reviewers should be focused on proposals that are trying to finish up in time for 8.6. Any "new business" that won't realistically make it into 8.6 would be better held until things cool down somewhat to give everyone some breathing room.
There is no official policy on this, so this isn't an order to anyone. However, it is a polite request: If your RFC or brainstorm isn't already in play and realistically targeting 8.6, please hold off for now. We can pick up "new business" again around 1 September or so, when the feature freeze rush is well past us. (I know of a few high-impact RFCs that are waiting for them already.)
Just for the thread record, as a RFC does not require 100%
implementation done to be accepted,
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ext-gd-2.4 is almost done. Some new methods
are being considered for completeness (like quantization method, with
option for the mode), but those are thin wrappers in ext/gd, no new
implementation under the hood. That's also what this RFC does, it
removes all non php binding related logic out of the ext/gd/* and
moves to ext/gd/libgd or use alternative existing APIs instead.
Warm regards,
Pierre
@pierrejoye