Re: PHP 7 RTM date

As much as I had been looking forward to it soon, haste does makes waste. Making a more responsible choice for the users is commendable and outweighs the inconvenience a mere two week delay. +1 from me. Scott Arciszewski Chief Development Officer Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 11/08/2015 11:15 AM, Anatol Belski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for 7.0.0 > > RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current state does > not > > look reasonable to be packaged as the final release. > > > > The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to > announce > > the planned RTM date on Nov 12th as final. From the todays perspective, > the > > most of the issues discovered and fixed since RC6 are still minor by > > themselves - 7 crashes (bug #70805 rather critical), and 3 functionality > > regressions. However, given the amount and the combination of them > > altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable for starting the life > > cycle of the next major. > > > > Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right > thing to > > do ATM. Hence this writing to inform the community about the intention > and > > to gather the opinions. PHP 7 is still going down the home stretch and is > > very close to the finish, the next RC can be well the last. Though we'd > > better ensuring the quality as many times as needed before, instead of > > casually disservicing the consumers. > > This is the right decision. The whole point of the RC cycle is to > identify crash bugs like 70805. It would have been great if we had > caught it earlier, but we still caught and fixed it before the release > and hopefully we can still get the final release out in November. > > -Rasmus > >