Re: Branch off PHP-7.4 early

On 15.11.2018 at 15:27, Nikita Popov wrote: > Based on previous discussions, it appears that our current plan is to > release PHP 8.0 after PHP 7.4. Normally we only branch off versions once > they reach beta stage, which means the PHP-7.4 branch will only be created > around summer 2019. > > I would like to propose to branch off PHP-7.4 earlier this time and start > working on PHP 8.0 in the master branch. This will allow people to start > working on changes that are not suitable for PHP 7.4 (due to either > significant internal ABI breakage, or userland breakage). > > Because each new branch introduces a lot of merge overhead for > contributors, I would further propose that merges should only go up to > PHP-7.4, while merges into master (PHP 8) will be performed occasionally, > on an as-needed basis, by the people working on it. Have you considered having a separate PHP-8 branch, which can be rebased onto master from time to time, and eventually be merged into master (basically, treating the PHP-8 branch as a big feature branch)? -- Christoph M. Becker