Re: PHP 8 Preview Releases

Hi Dmitry, I'm not suggesting we do it right now, I'm suggesting we look at the planning of it right now as it deviates from our normal release cycle. At the moment we should just consider how we want it to work, including when it should start ... Cheers Joe On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 14:42, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > I think, PHP-8 preview is too early. > > We even didn't freeze PHP-7.4 yet, and PHP-8 didn't get any new major > features (may be I forgot something) only deprecations and some internal > improvements > > . > > According to JIT, it's probably going to be changed a lot in the nearest > future. > > > Thanks. Dmitry. > ------------------------------ > *From:* Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> > *Sent:* Friday, March 29, 2019 3:40:04 PM > *To:* release-managers@php.net; PHP internals; Dmitry Stogov > *Subject:* PHP 8 Preview Releases > > Morning internals, > > Since we now have a result for JIT and we know it will be included in PHP > 8, I think it's time to visit the idea brought up in discussion to have > preview releases of PHP 8. > > I'm interested in hearing what kind of schedules we think are going to be > useful - it's tempting to say let's track PHP-7.4 releases, possibly with a > bi-monthly interval, but I'm not sure if that may be too soon, or too slow, > or too fast. > > Thoughts please (especially from Dmitry) ? > > Cheers > Joe > > >