Re: Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:42:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL | ||
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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 10:27 -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> On 2012-03-02, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It should have been done before 5.4.0 was out, but better late than never.
> >
> > I put together four options here:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol
> >
> > I'm in favor of option #1, as it gives enough time to our users to
> > migrate by reducing the maintenance period to only one year.
> >
> > Suggestions or comments welcome,
>
> Considering that 5.3 adoption is still eclipsed by 5.2 adoption, to be
> honest, it feels like doing 1 year bugfix + 1 year security fix is the
> minimum necessary. By the time we get good adoption of 5.3, it will
> already be EOL'd. :-/
Users can jump directly to 5.4, too.
Yes, I know (Linux) Distributions are conservative and slow and start
supporting 5.3 just right now. But well, we have limited resources,
only, too.
johannes