Re: Branching off PHP7 and electing RMs

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote: >> >>> Hello people. >>> >>> Time is going, and summer is coming. >>> >>> I think we must have branched 7.0 until end of May, and have our 2 RMs >>> elected. >>> >>> Don't forget we are starting a long testing process, and some people >>> start >>> having some PRs to target 7.1, so we need to branch. >>> >>> The plans are to branch so that we prevent any not-wanted merge, and >>> focus >>> on stabilization. >>> Start a calendar about our first alpha as well. >>> >>> If we want 7.0 to be released around October/November , we need to handle >>> those tasks right now. >>> >>> Thoughts ? ;-) >>> >>> Julien.Pauli >>> >> >> We put together a roadmap for 7.0 with Kalle: >> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70 >> Then the idea was brought up that we should consider other candidates >> other than him, and we got sidetracked but did not really decide anything. >> I agree that it would be nice sorting it out ASAP, but having the first >> alpha on may 15th isn't feasible anymore. >> I've created a vote about the RMs, this isn't something we used to do in >> the past for (s)electing the RMs, but seeing how we couldn't reach an >> agreement on the first round I think it would help sorting this out fast: >> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#vote >> >> Not sure that this should be a one or two week long poll, let's see what >> others think. >> >> -- >> Ferenc Kovács >> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >> > > would be nice if we could get a couple of votes more! > I just voted :-) OK, so let's wait a little bit more before branching. I admit that having one more branch will turn any merge into more complex work, even for PHP5 only developers - bug fixers. Julien.P