Re: Let's make a 5.7 release

On 2014-08-15, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > --001a11c1258a38c82a0500a8b070 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > we don't have a single instance where we were able to deliver a minor > release under a year, and I'm fairly sure that 7.0 will see more proposed > features/changes as any previous minor, because there are stuff which can > only happen in a major version. > More changes(both in numbers and in impact) will need more time to > stabilize, so I think that the one year roadmap for 7.0 is unrealistic. > You seem to be arguing that 5.7 would pull away resources from 7.0, but I'm > fairly sure that 5.7 would be the smallest of the 5.x minor versions for > two reasons: we are getting better with not letting BC breaks slip in in > minors plus working on a major version is much more interesting as you have > less restrictions, so I think that 5.7 will/would be only to make the bed > for 7.0, mostly introducing E_DEPRECATEDs and maybe a handfull of small > features. > I think that there is no reason to give up our current release policy and > roadmap, and bet everything on PHP7, we don't lose anything with keeping > 5.7. My main concern with this is that it's php6 all over again. A PHP 7 where everyone waits and pushes all their new stuff in their but nobody actually ever releases because "one more feature" or they are too busy maintaining the old series. I personally feel PHP7 will be stale and slowly die if we do a 5.7, or who wants to even further support multiple branches with different APIs (didn't we learn anything from PHP 6?).