Re: PHP 5.6 Process

hi David, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote: > Hi Internals > > It's already mid-october and according to our release schedule we have to > release PHP 5.6 in 10 months from now. The past has shown that we need > approx 5 months to stablize a release and go through alpha, beta and RC > stages. Therefore I want to start a discussion on how to move forward > with 5.6, to get a release schedule up as fast as possible so contributors > now when to push their stuff and to vote on RFC's BEFORE the first beta. I will add some of the known TODOs to https://wiki.php.net/todo/php56 in the next couple of days. > I think over the last years it proved to be good to have the current > RM support a new RM who then takes over after the final release > (e.g. Julien basically does 5.5 alone now, but we worked a lot together > during alpha/beta/RC). Therefore my suggestion is that Julien is going to > help out with 5.6 and then we would need a new RM that can learn from julien > on how to do things to later be able to do 5.6 on his own. > > Suggestions? I can do it if necessary, we (ostc team) are part of it anyway from a QA and windows point of view. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org