Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Sebastian, > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> > wrote: > > On 03/02/2012 07:34 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol > > > > > > I discussed with Arne Blankerts and Stefan Priebsch over breakfast today > > and Stefan had an interesting idea: why not announce (now) that PHP 5.3 > > will go into EOL a year after PHP 5.5 comes out? > > And when do you think it is one year after php-next? In two years. So > much about one year being the only option ;-) > > that's just the schedule, if the php-next is being late(which can happen, 3-4 additional RC can cause a 2 month delay), that will force us to either prolong the support of php-old (which would be in contrast with the RFC) or the dates would start shifting apart. if the next-next is also delayed 2 month, then it will be only an 8 months gap between the release of php-next and the EOL of php-old, and I think that would be a trend, because projects tend to being late. so I would support Sebastian's proposal, and there are other projects doing this kind of schedule (debian and fedora comes to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of others) -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu