PHP RFC: Unbundle unmaintained extensions in PHP 8

• Version: 0.2.0
• Date: 2020-04-25 (Version 0.1.0: 2019-07-15)
• Author: George Peter Banyard girgias@php.net
• Status: Draft
• Target version: PHP 8.0
• First Published at: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unbunle-unmaintained-extensions-php8

The RFC proposes to unbundle or assign the PHP Project as a maintainer for the listed extension in PHP 8 following the Cleaning up unmaintained extensions RFC.

For a full list of currently unmaintained extensions please refer to this page: https://wiki.php.net/extensions-unmaintained

The following list provides a short overview of the extensions proposed to be unbundled from php-src in this RFC.

• Database extensions
  • The DBA extension
  • The ODBC database extension
  • The ODBC PDO Driver extension
  • The Firebird PDO Driver extension
• XML extensions
  • The XML-RPC extension
  • The SimpleXML extension
  • The XML Parser (xml) extension
  • The XSL extension
• Human Language and Character Encoding Support extensions
  • The Enchant extension
  • The GetText extension
  • The Pspell extension
  • The iconv extension
• Process Control Extensions
  • The PCNTL (Process control) extension
  • The POSIX extension
  • The Shared Memory (shmop) extension
  • The System V Semaphore extensions (which contains sysvem, sysvsh, and sysvmsg)
• Network and Service extensions
  • The FTP extension
  • The SNMP extension
  • The Sockets extension
• Variable and Type Related Extensions
  • The Filter extension
• Mathematical Extensions
  • The BC Math extension
• Other extensions
  • The Calendar extension
  • The Readline extension
  • The Tidy extension

The following extensions are considered maintained by the currently named maintainer:

• mysqlnd: Johannes Schlüter johannes@php.net (2008 - 2018)
• oci8: Christopher Jones sixd@php.net (2007 - 2017)
• pdo_dblib: Adam Baratz adambaratz@php.net (2016 - 2017)
• pdo_oci: Christopher Jones sixd@php.net (2007 - 2017)
• soap: Dmitry Stogov dmitry@php.net (2004 - 2018)
• date: Derick Rethans derick@php.net (2005 - 2018)
• exif: Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net (2010 - 2018)
• hash: Anatol Belski ab@php.net (2014 - 2018)
• json: Jakub Zelenka bukka@php.net (2014 - 2018)
• ldap: Côme Bernigaud mcmic@php.net (2015 - 2017)
• sodium: Frank Denis jedisct1@php.net (2017 - 2017)

Each extension is voted separately and requires a 2/3 majority to be unbundled otherwise the PHP Project is named as a maintainer for the extension until the next call for Maintainers.
The number of bugs for each extension is accurate at the time of writing (2019-07-16)

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2013.
There are currently 1 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2004.
There are currently 42 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently 26 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2007.
There are currently 4 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension has been orphaned.
There are currently 3 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2008.
There are currently 23 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2013.
There are currently 3 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs and 1 suspended bug for this extension on the bug tracker (XML Related label).

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2010.
There are currently 5 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently no open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently 4 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2004.
There are currently 2 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2010.
There are currently 3 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2010.
There are currently 11 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2000.
There are currently 1 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2008.
No category under which to file bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently 9 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently 17 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2013.
There are currently 4 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2000.
There are currently 21 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2011.
There are currently 26 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2004.
There are currently 2 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2004.
There are currently no open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs and 1 suspended bug for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension never had a named maintainer.
There are currently 6 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

This extension hasn't had a maintainer since 2012.
There are currently 4 open/verified/analysed/assigned bugs for this extension on the bug tracker.

Code using these extensions will need to install the corresponding extension via PECL or port them to a better-maintained extension.

Version 0.1.0: Initial RFC
Version 0.2.0: Drop extensions which are deemed essential

Cleaning up unmaintained extensions RFC