Re: [VOTE] [RFC] PHP 7.0 timeline

On 21 November 2014 07:36, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > In this case the 3 month period will be too short imo. > We release RCs/betas every two weeks, so 3 months would be about 6 release. > 5.6.0 had 3 alpha, 4 beta and 4 rc before release. > 5.5.0 had 6 alpha, 4 beta and 3 rc before release. > 5.4.0 had 3 alpha, 2 beta and 8 rc before release. > 5.3.0 had 3 alpha, 1 beta and 4 rc before release > 5.2.0 had 6 rc before release. > 5.1.0 had 6 rc before release. > > based on that I would say that our average beta+rc release number is around > 7, and sometimes the release for a beta/RC can be delayed, so I think that > having only 3 months for the beta+RC period is too optimistic, we should > make that into 4 months at least, we could either push out the ETA for GA > or move back the alpha period by a month. Agreed. This is the key reason why our "annual" release cycle has been "15 monthly" in practice — we've consistently underestimated the number of beta and RC releases required for a .0 stable. Adam