Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:13:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode | ||
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Juan Basso <jrbasso@gmail.com> wrote:
> > During the discussion process it was discussed and people were ok with it
> > since it doesn't break any existing code. Also, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK option
> > was added on json_encode in patch version (added on 5.3.3).
>
>
> I do not know who are the "people" but the release process is pretty
> clear on that. We decided not to allow features additions to ease
> developers life, like not having to do dozen of tests to know which
> minor versions added what. It is also why we have yearly releases,
> reduce the delay between accepted features and actual availability in
> a release.
>
> Please not that the release process was approved after 5.3 and applied to
> 5.4+.
>
The release process RFC *explicitly* allows the addition of self-contained
features in patch releases. This rule is implemented in practice either by
RM approval for the feature or an RFC, the latter being the case here.
Nikita