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Marcus Boerger wrote:

Hello KaiGai,

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:11:02 AM, you wrote:

Hi,

I'm one of the developers in the SELinux.
I have an extension of PHP to provide interfaces to communicate
with SELinux, and would like to propose them to the official PHP.

Now I'm looking for informations about steps to propose a new
extension. Could someone point to me?
I could not find introductions to submit patches. :(

The following pages show specifications and implementations that
I would like to propose:
http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/wiki/Memo_PHP_SELinux
http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/source/browse/misc/php-selinux/

But I'm not clear for what should I do in the next.

• What is the correct list to submit a patch?
• What base version of PHP should I make a patch toward?
• What facilities are necessary except for the code?
  (I guess documentation and testcases are required.)
• Who can admit the patch inclusion?

Sorry, I'm not good at development cycle in this community...

Nice. Now to get your work into PHP you need to propose it to
PELC (PHP Extension Community Library). To do so follow here:
http://pecl.php.net/account-request.php

Marcus, Thanks for your information.
I'll get a start from announcement of SELinux extensions on the
pecl-dev list.
I guess the module name of "selinux" will be acceptable for people.

Normally those extensions are developed with the their source
in th epecl repository, thus you need a CVS account. Also note
that we have restrictions on the possible licenses.

I've not determined the license of the extension, so we can
choose the most preferable one (PHP license 3.0).

Thanks,

OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com