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Doc Bug #77403 Issue tracker: Undefined status "Suspended"
Submitted: 2019-01-02 19:19 UTC Modified: 2019-01-06 19:39 UTC
From: chealer at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
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 [2019-01-02 19:19 UTC] chealer at gmail dot com 
Description:
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https://pecl.php.net/package/apd offers to see apd bugs with a link titled "Package Bugs". As I found seeing 0 issue there more worrisome than reassuring, I went to do a search by myself. While bugs.php.net does show no apd issue with status "Open", I found several issues suggesting that the latest apd version doesn't even compile, 3 of which are set to Status "Suspended":
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58798
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62229
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=57269

I strongly suspect these tickets were mistakenly set to status Suspended, but in order to confirm that, I would need to know what Suspended means / how it should be used. Unfortunately, there appears to be no definition of any of the statuses, even those whose purpose is least obvious.

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 [2019-01-02 19:26 UTC] x at y dot z 
I recommend reading the comments on the issues you linked, specifically the bottom of those issues. There is an explanation.
 [2019-01-02 23:24 UTC] chealer at gmail dot com 
I must amend the description; Several statuses are documented on https://bugs.php.net/search-howto.php
Suspended unfortunately isn't.

Regarding the previous comment on this ticket, if a comment in another ticket explains the role of Suspended, please quote it.
 [2019-01-04 12:04 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Type: Bug +Type: Documentation Problem -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2019-01-04 12:04 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Suspended means, that the ticket has to wait for something to
happen. This could either be an upstream fix, or somebody to step
up as maintainer of an unmaintained extension, or maybe something
else.  In the case of PECL/apd[1], the package is unmaintained for
years, and it is even prominently marked as being unmaintained.  I
haven't checked all three reports, but the first has been closed
with the comment[2]:

| I'm going to mark this bug as suspended, the report can still be
| found if a maintainer for APD comes forward.

Since there is still no maintainer, the bug has been rightly
marked as being suspended.  If a maintainer will step up, they can
switch all suspended tickets to open, and address them.

[1] <https://pecl.php.net/package/apd>
[2] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58798#1424936202>
 [2019-01-04 12:05 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=commit;h=6712d9e13cdc37af96018976ac50b4b1c62b5604
Log: Fix #77403: Issue tracker: Undefined status &quot;Suspended&quot;
 [2019-01-04 12:05 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 [2019-01-06 17:37 UTC] chealer at gmail dot com 
Thank you cmb but I unfortunately do not understand what the definition means. What is "the scope of the PHP developers"? Perhaps examples would help.
 [2019-01-06 17:51 UTC] requinix@php.net 
> What is "the scope of the PHP developers"?
Assuming you know, or have looked up, the definition of the word "scope",

"Tickets which are waiting on some action which is outside the scope of the PHP developers."

means that the PHP devs cannot change code yet because there is something they need before they can do anything with it. The most common example of this situation is a feature request that needs an RFC because it is potentially difficult or complicated: code cannot be written until the feature is accepted and clearly defined, so such requests are typically marked as Suspended.
 [2019-01-06 19:34 UTC] chealer at gmail dot com 
Thank you requinix

In that case, since most readers will consider an action like requesting comments as within "the scope of the PHP developers", please clarify by specifying all cases which are considered "outside the scope of the PHP developers".
 [2019-01-06 19:39 UTC] requinix@php.net 
> please clarify by specifying all cases
Impossible.

If you don't understand why something was suspended, and have already read the comments and applied common sense, then ask. Otherwise it doesn't matter.
 
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