Re: What's our official stance on small self-containedadditions in a micro version

Hi! > Have you considered developers targeting shared hosting? Working on an > improvement they have to wait for five years to use it is most certainly > annoying. However, introducing this feature in a revision might not > really help them at all. Not immediately, but shared hoster much faster would upgrade from 5.5.9 to 5.5.23 than from 5.5.9 to 7.1. Also, if adding feature does not help some specific group, it doesn't mean it shouldn't be done - because not adding doesn't help *all* groups. So at least we can help people that do have option to upgrade. What is being proposed that everybody has to wait for years for even tiniest feature to become available. I don't think it is a good idea. If that were the principle in PHP in its early days, many people - probably including myself - would never start contributing to core, since what's the point if they have to wait for results of their labor to be useful to them for several years? -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com