Re: Moving forward: PHP 5.5

On 2012-09-08, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > On Sep 8, 2012 1:49 PM, "David Soria Parra" <dsp@php.net> wrote: > >> As most people know we do not include patches in 5.4 that will break >> backwards compatibility. > > We do not include them anywhere in any future 5.x release either. > That's clearly define in the RFC and we won't change that. Feedbacks > from users on that is clear and loud, best decision ever. I agree. I missed the point that 5.5 should not include bc breaks either. >> Those patches are in the 5.5 branch and we >> are also stockpiling some new features. > > There is o 5.5 branch, there is master. Master is the development > branch and as such can have such breakages. It does not mean that we > have these BC breaks in 5.5. 5.5 should be based on 5.4 with the > feature additions and improvements we want in, but definitively not > with BC breaks. >> We have implementations for >> foreachlist, generators, hash_pbkdf2 and others are likely to get included >> in the next weeks like the simplified password hashing API. >> >> As with every new release minor release (read minor as the Y in 5.Y.Z), >> we choose a new RM. We had quite some confusion and debates around this >> topic the last time, so I'll just go ahead and propose somebody right >> away for the job. > > Two persons, actually. > >> I would like to go ahead and propose Julien Pauli as the RM for 5.5. > > Huge +1. > > When we discussed that, you wanted to give up your role with 5.4 (one > is enough at this point) and be co RM for 5.5. Did you change your > mind? As some people are confused by what I mean with what I would do. I can help with 5.5 and be the Co-RM again. The reason is simple, while the main RM is bound to the series for 2-3 years, Lukas back then and now I realize that after the first bumpy months it's a fairly straight forward job (particularly thanks to the release process) and I am sure Stas can manage 5.4 on it's own (and in case he is away for two weeks i can still run the process). At that point I am bascially just doing the announcements for 5.4.