Re: Proposed timetable for PHP 5.6.0
| From: | Julien Pauli | Date: | Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:21:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed timetable for PHP 5.6.0 | ||
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> On 17 January 2014 17:05, Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net> wrote:
>>> I plan to tag the the first alpha today, and release it tomorrow, so the
>>> time for new RFCs are almost up.
>>
>> I had to recreate my dev environment as my home desktop got some hardware
>> issues, and I didn't wanted to tag the release without a bit more testing.
>> Hopefully I can tag the release today, and I will talk with Julien and the
>> windows build guys about the next possible release date.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay!
>
> I'm quite happy about the delay, as it's allowed me to use a Friday
> evening productively hacking together a skeletal draft of the PHP 5.6
> migration guide — it's not on the mirrors yet, but it is on
> docs.php.net: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration56.php.
What a nice idea, we are talking about doc and migration guide before
even the first alpha !
Nice nice :-)
>
> At this stage, 5.6 features aren't being documented outside of the
> migration guide, since we're not at the feature freeze yet, so some of
> the new features are only minimally documented. (For instance, there
> are many variations of splat and variadic syntax that aren't covered
> at present.) Once we hit feature freeze, they'll start getting proper
> pages/sections in the language reference and will have more
> comprehensive documentation (particularly if you help write it).
Sounds like a nice plan.
>
> For developers who've committed significant code to 5.6, please make
> sure your feature/deprecation/change is mentioned somewhere in there —
> if it hasn't been, it's almost certainly because it wasn't in
> UPGRADING, so please fix that. :) Please also feel free to jump in and
> edit anything you're unhappy with! Some of the smaller changes were a
> bit opaque.
Thx for the reminder ! ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam, who really doesn't want to spend the eventual 5.6.0 release day
> the way he spent the 5.5.0 release day.
Lol, I don't remember that, ping me when you want to refresh my mind.
Always nice to learn from past experiences.
Julien.Pauli