Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL

On 2012-03-02, 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? > > * Now until PHP 5.5 comes out: bug and security fixes for PHP 5.3 > * From the release of PHP 5.5: security fixes for PHP 5.3 for a year > > Ideally, PHP 5.5 would be out in a year from now, so it would come down > to one year of bug and security fixes and one year of security fixes > only. Makes sense to me. +1. Since so many distros and ISPs tend to adopt late, this would keep them, and their users, covered for a reasonable time period, allowing for a cleaner migration path. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc