Re: An incubation period for RFCs? [repost as own thread]

> On Mar 20, 2020, at 10:03, Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote: > > On 20/03/2020 14:38, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> How does the list feel about this idea? > > From what I have read, userland testing of even RC versions seems to be as infrequent as to > practically be non-existent outside the major frameworks, having a usable number of people playing > about with it when it's not even in for certain seems unrealistic? > > Would it not also lead us to a situation where at any given time this incubation branch, or god > forbid master, could be in any of 2^n different states depending on which engine features were > available or not? That's a lot of extra uncertainty and possible unexpected interactions. To encourage userland testing of RC versions, I think it would be helpful to maintain Docker images of RCs. I’m not suggesting the internals group take this on themselves. IMO, this is something that the community can take on and offer, and it’s something that needs to be done before we can expect significant testing of RCs. Cheers, Ben

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