Re: Version management

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > Am 10.08.2010 17:14, schrieb Derick Rethans: >> I think our current way work pretty well. There is 5.2 which is >> security-fix supported, 5.3 that is supported and trunk/5.4 that's on >> the way to alpha. > >  This only works if manage to keep the time between "new code is >  committed to trunk" and "new code is released" under a year. Otherwise >  developers get frustrated. > >  If we manage to release a PHP 5.X.0 release every year, we are a lot >  more predictable. Which is good for downstream as well. That's exactly what I keep asking. It also requires some changes about features addition in stable releases, bugs fixes and release life cycles. All these words sounds like a nightmare to Derick&co, but that's something we have to go through. It is the only way to have controllable and plan-able releases (for us, our users and the distros). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org