In my last post I explained how to build a development version of a pecl extension.  Now we will go through the bug lifecycle in the pecl/memcache extension.  Besides writing the actual C code to fix the bug, it is considered a best practice to write a test that verifies the bug has been fixed.  I will use PECL bug #16442 - memcache_set fail with integer value as an example, even though it is already been fixed.

I sometimes help update the PHP documentation.  I have not done it in a while since I started maintaining pecl/memcache.  However, there was a recent bug submission where I felt the documentation for pecl/memcache should be updated.  A lot of work has been done to the documentation tools since I last updated documentation.  I went to http://doc.php.net for a quick primer on how to generate some new documentation output so I could test my changes and found the documentation for generating documentation a little hard to follow.