What is the preferred process for update requests?

[Krinkle]

I filed one for php-excimer at #1952, by loosely manually copying and mimicking how older issues of the same type were written.

Is this the preferered way to bring these to your attention? I believe you prefer people follow issue templates and read the FAQ, and I could not find an answer in either for how to raise this type of issue.

I imagine much of your update process is semi-automatic, so perhaps these kinds of requests are redundant? Some loose guideance might be worth including in the FAQ like "if it's been less than 3 months since an upstream release, it'll probably happen soon without needing to ask". Or perhaps there's a common problem you could share, something that upstream maintainers of PECL packages could improve on their end to fall in the "happy" path of your update process. Perhaps I'm unknowingly doing something to cause you more effort for this package than others, in which case I'd be happy to change a thing or two upstream to accomodate your process!