Request: Stay focused on 8.6 RFCs
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:44:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Request: Stay focused on 8.6 RFCs | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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Hi folks. We have a number of new people on the list in the last 2 weeks with RFC proposals, which
is great to see and I like a number of them. (Whether my PHPVerse talk on the RFC process played a
factor in that, I could not say. :-) )
However, as some have hinted, we are currently very close to the feature freeze date for PHP 8.6,
and attention of both RFC reviewers and code reviewers should be focused on proposals that are
trying to finish up in time for 8.6. Any "new business" that won't realistically
make it into 8.6 would be better held until things cool down somewhat to give everyone some
breathing room.
There is no official policy on this, so this isn't an order to anyone. However, it is a polite
request: If your RFC or brainstorm isn't already in play and realistically targeting 8.6,
please hold off for now. We can pick up "new business" again around 1 September or so,
when the feature freeze rush is well past us. (I know of a few high-impact RFCs that are waiting
for then already.)
Cheers all.
--
Larry Garfield
larry@garfieldtech.com