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 from 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 lay 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.
