[PHP-DEV] [PHP8.3] Feature freeze in 4 weeks

2023-06-20 Thread Eric Mann via internals
Good morning, all! This is a friendly reminder from your RMs that the PHP 8.3 feature freeze is in ~4 weeks on July 18th [1]. Alpha1 is already out and Alpha2 is scheduled this Thursday. All new features and RFCs need to be discussed with voting polls closed on or before July 18th for inclus

[PHP-DEV] VCS Account Request: ericmann

2023-05-02 Thread Eric Mann via internals
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Re: [PHP-DEV] Release Managers for PHP 8.3

2023-03-01 Thread Eric Mann via internals
I had volunteered in a previous cycle but, sadly, lost in the voting round. That said, I'm still eager to be more heavily involved and up for the challenge (both for the immediate process and for any long-term support beyond the dates listed in the existing todo. I've been working with PHP in

Re: [PHP-DEV] base64url format

2023-01-09 Thread Eric Mann via internals
I'm in support of such a feature, but would strongly advocate for an additional parameter to flag whether or not to include the trailing `=` pad. The trailing pad is optional according to RFC 4648, so I think leaving it off by default would be the ideal use case, but an optional `include_paddin

Re: [PHP-DEV] Early feedback on encrypted session PR

2022-05-18 Thread Eric Mann via internals
I'm not sure I'm a fan of the PR as it stands, but the idea of encrypting session data - definitely. When sessions are stored on disk, that data is plainly visible by anyone (or any process) with read access to that disk. If they're cached instead in a DB or an in-memory system like Memcached,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [8.2] Release Manager Election

2022-05-11 Thread Eric Mann via internals
Best of luck to all of the volunteers in this election! To add some color about why I threw my hat in the ring (and save you the trouble of trying to find the earlier thread): I've been using PHP since the days of version 4 and our older/clunkier method of OO programming. I've bounced around

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8.2 Release Manager Selection

2022-04-26 Thread Eric Mann via internals
I'm new to this mailing list as I'd previously (and very mistakenly) assumed it was meant for existing contributors. So I've always consumed conversations via web-based aggregators rather than directly. My mistake. That being said, I am very interested in being a part of this release. I've be