Hi everybody!
It seems there are a lot of (old) bug reports for unmaintained PECL
extensions. I wonder what the official stance is on that.
For instance, there is #57551[1], which has been "suspended" by Joe
Watkins recently. I'm not too happy with "suspending" those bug
reports, because they're lying around without a realistic chance of
getting fixed, and come up from time to time when looking for a "random
bug".
Then there is #58612[2] which is about an extension that had its only
release in 2003, and its latest commits 5 years ago (apparently, some
standard commits for several PECL packages). Wouldn't it make sense to
close such bug reports ("Sorry, but you're using an unmaintained
extension ..."?).
Thoughts?
[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57551
[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58612
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Christoph M. Becker
W dniu 2015-04-03 o 01:59, Christoph Becker pisze:
Hi everybody!
It seems there are a lot of (old) bug reports for unmaintained PECL
extensions. I wonder what the official stance is on that.For instance, there is #57551[1], which has been "suspended" by Joe
Watkins recently. I'm not too happy with "suspending" those bug
reports, because they're lying around without a realistic chance of
getting fixed, and come up from time to time when looking for a "random
bug".
If we'd like to deal with those reports, "Won't be fixed" seems more
suitable (similiarly to "PHP 4 support discontinued" on
https://bugs.php.net/quick-fix-desc.php).
Marking those bugs as suspended looks like a good idea to me. They are
not cluttering open bugs anymore and they can be easily excluded from
"random bug" functionallity.
Then there is #58612[2] which is about an extension that had its only
release in 2003, and its latest commits 5 years ago (apparently, some
standard commits for several PECL packages). Wouldn't it make sense to
close such bug reports ("Sorry, but you're using an unmaintained
extension ..."?).Thoughts?
[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57551
[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58612
Cheers,
Maciej.
Hi everybody!
It seems there are a lot of (old) bug reports for unmaintained PECL
extensions. I wonder what the official stance is on that.For instance, there is #57551[1], which has been "suspended" by Joe
Watkins recently. I'm not too happy with "suspending" those bug
reports, because they're lying around without a realistic chance of
getting fixed, and come up from time to time when looking for a "random
bug".Then there is #58612[2] which is about an extension that had its only
release in 2003, and its latest commits 5 years ago (apparently, some
standard commits for several PECL packages). Wouldn't it make sense to
close such bug reports ("Sorry, but you're using an unmaintained
extension ..."?).Thoughts?
[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57551
[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58612--
Christoph M. Becker--
on a related note: I've marked both packages as unmaintained on pecl.php.net
.
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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu