Re: Re: Branch off PHP-7.4 early

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:36 PM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:26 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > I feel like there may be some understanding here, because what > > is proposed here seems to match exactly what you proposed > > in your first mail to this thread. > > > Perhaps the impedance mismatch is in calling the branch "PHP-8". > Calling it that says to me, "It's my responsibility to merge bugfixes > if I want them propagated to what will become 8.0.0-final". Calling > it "feature/jit-and-other-cool-stuff" or literally ANYTHING other than > "8" says, "Development is happening as normal, and the feature branch > is the problem of the people working on the feature. > > Also, I'm going to quote again the specific language Dmitry used: > > > - in May/June move master into PHP-7.4, make PHP-8 to be master and > > require committers to work on master and backport changes (according to > > usual PHP/GIT workflow). > > > "move" says to me "rename the branches", which again, if fixes aren't > being dutifully picked/merged/whatever to this branch, then they > inevitably will get lost. It's not that I don't trust someone working > on the feature branch to do their best, it's that it shouldn't be > their responsibility. > > -Sara > I'd like to bring this up again. Typed properties has been merged, so we currently don't have any major code changes pending. To clarify what exactly I'm proposing: * Create the PHP-7.4 branch now/soon, rather than in summer. * master will be PHP 8.0. * All changes are applied to the lowest applicable branch and then merged up as usual, including to PHP-7.4 and master. * NEWS mentions for bug fixes are only added up to PHP-7.3. They are not added on the PHP-7.4 branch, just like for master. (Excluding changes that are only in 7.4/8.0, of course.) * All feature additions can generally still go to the PHP-7.4 branch, there is no freeze. * Backwards incompatible changes and major internal API changes can go to master (assuming they are accepted through the usual processes). Nikita