Re: 8.2 features status

Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah, the main problem I have with TODO-on-a-wiki is the question of
> quality control.  I've been heard to complain that "the TODO list
> consists of everything Bruce thinks is a good idea", but for the most
> part things don't get onto TODO without some rough consensus on the
> mailing lists --- at least about the nature of the problem, if not
> the exact shape of the solution.  I'm worried about a wiki having pages
> that have not been peer-reviewed at all.  In some respects that wouldn't
> matter, but what of our hypothetical newbie developer coming along and
> taking entries at face value?  If you don't know the project well enough
> to recognize bogus entries, you could still end up wasting your time
> on silly ideas that will get rejected once seen by a wider audience.

To bring up PHP again:
http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP52

This is the todo list for the upcoming 5.2.0 release that is currently 
in RC1. Most of the todo items in PHP do not need much detail, so this 
list does not carry much more information than Bruce's list. The wiki 
has support for ACL's, so I have given various trusted people direct 
access. Some developers however rely on me for updating the items.

As you can see there is a confirmed (as in the release manager has oked 
the todo) and an under discussion as well as a future 5.x release 
section. We already have a separate todo list for php 6.

A todo list that illustrates the ability to attach more information for 
a given todo item is my PEAR::MDB2 list in the same wiki:
http://oss.backendmedia.com/MDB2/ToDo

regards,
Lukas