Re: 8.0 Feature Freeze happening today

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:39 AM Gabriel Caruso <carusogabriel@php.net> > wrote: > >> Good morning Internals! >> >> This is a reminder that *today* we are Feature Freezing and branching >> PHP-8.0, following the PHP 8.0 schedule ( >> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80#timetable). >> >> The branch will happen around >> >> - 1 am (+1 day) UTC+8 (SGT) >> - 7 pm UTC+2 (CEST, my timezone) >> - 6 pm UTC+1 (BST) >> - 1 pm UTC-4 (EDT) >> >> Let us know if you have any questions! >> >> -- Gabriel Caruso >> > > Sorry, I didn't catch that this message said feature freeze *and branch*. > > Please do not create a separate PHP-8.0 branch yet. A separate branch is > only needed if anyone wants to start landing changes targeting PHP 8.1 > already -- as far as I'm aware, nobody is actively working on PHP 8.1 yet. > > Due to our git workflow, creating a branch now means that every single > commit to PHP 8.0 will also require a merge into master. This is a rather > big waste of time and CI resources if we expect PHP-8.0 and master to be > identical in the near future. > > Thanks, > Nikita > Preferably the branch would coincide with the ABI freeze, which I presume would be RC1. Nikita