Re: PHP 7 RTM date

On 10/11/15 00:49, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> November 30 is Cyber Monday, where people are either >> > >> > a) focused on maxing out their credit cards on every possible e-commerce site, or >> > b) unable to roll out PHP 7 because their customers are busy with a) >> > >> > At least at Heroku we have a blackout policy around Thanksgiving and Christmas for >> > platform changes, and I'd imagine other hosting platforms do as well. >> > >> > So maybe either Tuesday, or even better, Thursday, since that's release day >> > anyway. > Let's be realistic. This is not a critical security fix for production > servers. This is a .0.0 release. For developers this marks the point > where they need to start making upgrade plans if they haven't already. I > realize for Heroku and the few similar cloud computing services out > there it might be slightly different in that you want to be quick to > provide the first golden PHP 7 to your customers. > > My only concern with the timing is whether we are adding undue > inconvenience to our RM team and all the other folks on our side that > are affected by a release. Anybody moving their current stable infrastructure to PHP7 without fully testing deserves everything they get? PHP7 should be 'rolled out' as a secondary option for savy users who understand the implications since the code base WILL need to be reworked before it becomes a stable replacement for the current PhP5.x infrastructure. Actually a cloud service getting something out as a taster for PHP7 before the holiday could only be helpful since it would give more eyes on real world migration problems in much the same way that PHP5 roll-out was probably helped by RC's being available on some hosting services back then. ARE any cloud services providing that facility today with PHP7 RC's? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk