Roadmap to PHP 7.4

Goal

Make all dependent packages on php7 or php7-fpm compatible with PHP 7.4

The next version PHP 8 scheduled for December https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80 so it will give a window for apps to make them compatible

Compatible list

• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=nextcloud
• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=composer
• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=phpmyadmin
• icingaweb2 needs upgrade to https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/releases/tag/v2.8.0-rc1
• cacti-php7, nextcloud, rutorrent, speedtest

Incompatible

Should be patched or moved to unmaintained

• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=drupal7
• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=phpldapadmin https://github.com/leenooks/phpLDAPadmin/pull/97

To review

The list is from "Required by (27)" https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/php7

• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=phabricator & libphutil & arcanist (dependencies)
• bareos-webui, hiawatha, phoronix-test-suite, rainloop-webmail, racktables, postfixadmin - most probably will work
• ltb-project-ssp, zabix, zoneminder

Original summary

Hi everyone. I've been using Alpine for quite some time now and with the release of PHP 7.4 I was trying to google around how to contribute the installation of PHP 7.4 to Alpine. Unfortunately my searches hasn't yield great results yet except finding the Wiki that points here for a "Request for new package". If someone could point me to where I could find information on contributing to getting PHP 7.4 on the 3.11, that would be great!