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Consolidate Coding Standards Policy Document
This RFC is the follow-up on the Policy Repository RFC. That RFC created the Policies Repository, but made no changes to existing documents. An item under Futur...
Rewrite Coding Standards and Naming Document with Suggested Patch?
yes
13 Votes (100%)
no
0 Votes (0%)
Policy Repository
Currently, policies in regard to RFC Voting, the Release Process, security classification, and naming guidelines are all recorded in different places. In RFCs, ...
Do we want all the policies in one place in a Git repository?
yes
31 Votes (100%)
no
0 Votes (0%)
Release cycle update
The current release cycle has been introduced in 2010 by release process RFC. This has been
working mostly well, but there have been some minor issues. The leng...
Allow features that do not require an RFC in the beta period
Yes
34 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Disallow New Features in Release Candidates and Bug Fix releases
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Reduce number of RCs to Four
Yes
30 Votes (91%)
No
3 Votes (9%)
Extend Security Support by One Year
Yes
31 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Allowing recent regression fixes during security support
Yes
30 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Extend Releases Cycle to End of Year
Yes
33 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Duration class
Measuring and defining elapsed time is a ubiquitous concept in programming languages. Use cases where accurately defining such duration include defining timeout...
Implement the Time\Duration class as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
35 Votes (92%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Abstain
2 Votes (5%)
Should the mathematical operation methods of Time\Duration use full or abbreviated names?
multiplyBy, divideBy, negate, absolute
30 Votes (86%)
mul, divBy, neg, abs
2 Votes (6%)
Abstain
3 Votes (9%)
Unbundle ext/imap, ext/pspell, ext/oci8, and ext/PDO_OCI
PHP currently bundles the ext/imap, ext/pspell, ext/oci8, and ext/PDO_OCI extensions, which all suffer from issues with external dependencies.
Unbundle ext/imap
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/pspell
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/oci8 and ext/PDO_OCI
Yes
26 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
More Appropriate Date/Time Exceptions
This RFC proposes to introduce Date/Time extension specific exceptions and errors where this makes sense.
More Appropriate Date/Time Exceptions
Yes
25 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
Do you want to revert back to html_errors=on by default
yes
16 Votes (100%)
no
0 Votes (0%)
Unicode Text Processing
This RFC suggests to introduce a new class to make using and processing
(Unicode) text significantly more developer friendly compared to the
wealth of functiona...
Adopt Code Of Conduct
This RFC proposes that the PHP project should adopt a formal code of conduct for its members.