PHP 8.0 branch cut - The Return

Following Sara's email a couple of weeks ago, I come this week with a similar one: Next Tuesday, Sep 29th, has been marked on our calendars as the branch date for PHP-8.0 which would open master up for 8.1 targeted work. This would mean that bug fixes would need to include PHP-8.0 in their merge chain (meaning more work to merge 8.0 targeted fixes). Please let Sara and I know how you feel about this date. We can see that master is still quite active, especially with https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/18 and https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/16, and we don't wish to make the work to stabilize the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be. Thanks,