RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date

> -----Original Message----- > From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev@zend.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 8:57 PM > To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>; Anatol Belski > <anatol.php@belski.net>; internals@lists.php.net > Cc: Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>; Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net> > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com] > > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2015 9:49 PM > > To: Anatol Belski; internals@lists.php.net > > Cc: 'Kalle Sommer Nielsen'; 'Ferenc Kovacs' > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date > > > > 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. > > Thumbs up from me as well (incl. trying to get it out the door in November if > possible). > Thanks for the opinions and support. That means we're having the RC7 this week and look forward to the final. Back to the work then :) Regards Anatol