Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL

On 2012-03-05, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney > <weierophinney@php.net> wrote: > > > +1. > > Votes are for later. This was an indication of being in favor of the proposal, no more, no less. > > 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. > > There is a clear migration path defined now for all releases beginning > from 5.4. The discussion here is about 5.3 only. > > Please read all posts or replies, it helps to get the whole idea and > avoid repetitive arguing :) I did, actually. I still agree with Sebastian's proposal. While the PHP group may want to push for faster adoption, the pattern I've observed over and over is that ISPs and distributions -- particularly those with LTS offerings -- tend to adopt a minor version only when the new minor version supplanting it has been released. Does it make sense? No. Is it what happens? Yes. As such, I think it makes a lot of sense to base the lifetime of 5.3 based on when 5.4 is released. For the record, it's the path we're taking with ZF as well -- lifetime for the last minor release of ZF v1 will be determined by when ZF2-stable is released. -- 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