Re: No more RFC implementations during beta phase

Hi Am 2024-09-24 17:14, schrieb Christoph M. Becker:

I want to suggest that we do not allow any RFC implementations to land during beta phase. In my opinion, the remaining time to thoroughly check and address possibly overlooked issues is way too short otherwise.

FWIW, there was a recent RFC to clarify what is acceptable in which phase of the release process. Given that you did not vote there, I believe you might have missed it: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/release_cycle_update While I agree with Bob that by disallowing the RFC implementation during the Betas would make Betas and RCs effectively identical. Nevertheless I would like to see RFCs with a large impact voted on (and implemented) *well before* the feature freeze, as the recent history required following up with another RFC multiple times (e.g. Random Extension in 8.2, BCMath objects in 8.4, Property Hooks in 8.4). Asymmetric visibility being voted on shortly before the freeze made me a little uneasy for that reason. Best regards Tim Düsterhus