Thanks a lot for your input Derick. I totally agree regarding the naming. My proposal would be the project php-kafka to php-kafka-client and the extension name would be kafka_client instead of just Kafka.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:54 AM Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Nikazu Tenaka wrote: > > > I am Nick, a contributor to php-rdkafka. > > In discussion with the maintainer, we found that we have > > different philosophies where the extension should go and how > > it should be maintained. > > This is why i created an alternative with php-kafka that will > > follow a different philosophy and have faster release cycles. > > You can find the source here: https://github.com/php-kafka/php-kafka > > > > I would be grateful if we can also make it available via PECL. > > As promised on Twitter, I've had a look. > > PECL usually frowns upons having two extensions that do the same, which > would be the case here broadly. I personally don't mind having another > kafka extensions, but I do think it is important the the names are not > too similar. There is already quite a bit of confusion with memcache and > memcached. I would suggest to pick a much more distinct name. > > Secondly, As this is a new extension with a new API, I don't think it's > wise to have its first release being 1.0.0. It would mean that you can't > easily tweak, tune, or fix your API unless you bump the major version > number. I would advice to have at least a few 0.x releases, and when you > have users providing feedback then consider bumping it to 1.x in few > months time. > > And lastly, if you want help with implementing the extension, feel free > to chat with us at https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/11/php > > cheers, > Derick > > -- > PHP 7.4 Release Manager > Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news > Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support > https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug >
