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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:10:49 -0400
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To: Anatol Belski <ab@php.net>
Cc: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.3 timetable
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 15:36 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>> Due to some pending preliminary work, I won't be able to release
>> 7.3.0alpha1 on Thursday.  Unless Stas is willing to tackle the first
>> alpha, I suggest to postpone the tentative timetable[1] by a week.  I
>> don't think that would be a problem, since 7.0 - 7.2 had their first
>> alphas released on the second Thursday of June as well.
>>
>
On the one hand: Timetables can be pushed, we're not curing cancer here.
On the other, that's what a second RM is for, so let's see what Stas has to say.

> By the pending work, do you mean the yet missing karma, etc. you
> mentioned in another thread? If so - actually you still could tag,
> write site news, etc. - so most of the things. With the items where
> there is no karma yet like uploading to downloads.php.net or mailing a
> moderated list could be helped.
>
Indeed. Joe had key issues recently and due to not having his new key
in place in time we pushed the tarballs out of band, but they still
had his sigs and all the rest.  A rough start, sure.  But alphas are a
great time to make and learn from mistakes. :D

-Sara