Re: Studlycaps and MySQLi

At 01:41 PM 3/23/2004 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, George Schlossnagle wrote: On Mar 23, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 01:24 PM 3/23/2004 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Georg Richter wrote:

Changing everything after an announced feature freeze sucks. It's

just

ignoring others (users, authors and publishers) - a loss of face.

Obviously

some people like this kind of policy - me not!

I do agree with this. There is no point in announcing a freeze if you turn around and change a bunch of fundamental things the next day. If we are really going to go back and change all these method names then I think the correct way to do it is to pull RC1 and let people know that we discovered some things that need to be cleaned up and we will attempt another freeze and RC1 at a later date.

Huh? Now you're really going to confuse people. You can always have RC2 and more. As it is there will be enough meat to have an RC2 after bug fixes (things which weren't discovered before more people started testing the RC).

Two RC1s would be a clusterfuck. So call it RC2. The name is irrelevant. The important part is to let people know that there are some big code-breaking changes happening and that just because a freeze and an RC was announced nobody should count on features and functions being frozen yet.

I'm fine with an RC2 within a few days. I would do it latest on Monday. Andi