Thank you Christoph, I may be missing something since I am not a regular PHP contributor, but if you meant this mail to reach me, that did not work (I only stumbled upon it looking at the webmaster mailing list exceptionally). If you only wrote it to PHP mailing lists, I am not subscribed to any. Your mail also does not show in the ticket.
Christoph M. Becker wrote:
On 02.01.2019 at 20:19, chealer at gmail dot com wrote: > Description: > ------------ > https://pecl.php.net/package/apd offers to see apd bugs with a link > titled "Package Bugs". As I found seeing 0 issue there more worrisome > than reassuring, I went to do a search by myself. While bugs.php.net > does show no apd issue with status "Open", I found several issues > suggesting that the latest apd version doesn't even compile, 3 of which > are set to Status "Suspended": > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58798 > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62229 > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57269 > > I strongly suspect these tickets were mistakenly set to status > Suspended, but in order to confirm that, I would need to know what > Suspended means / how it should be used. Unfortunately, there appears to > be no definition of any of the statuses, even those whose purpose is > least obvious. Suspended means, that the ticket has to wait for something to happen. This could either be an upstream fix, or somebody to step up as maintainer of an unmaintained extension, or maybe something else. In the case of PECL/apd[1], the package is unmaintained for years, and it is even prominently marked as being unmaintained. I haven't checked all three reports, but the first has been closed with the comment[2]: | I'm going to mark this bug as suspended, the report can still be found | if a maintainer for APD comes forward. Since there is still no maintainer, the bug has been rightly marked as being suspended. [1] <https://pecl.php.net/package/apd> [2] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58798#1424936202> -- Christoph M. Becker
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