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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:37:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: Skip 7.3.0RC6?
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 24.10.2018 at 17:03, Sara Golemon wrote:

> I've been thinking about this since we added the fourth alpha and
> pushed the schedule down, but thinking about the EOL of 7.0 on Dec
> 3rd, I'm wondering if it'd be worth skipping RC6 in order to GA 7.3.0
> on Nov 22 (previously scheduled date) slightly ahead of the Dec 3
> deadline.  Obviously doing so would be contingent on the build looking
> stable as of RC5, and primarily the call of cmb and stas, but I wanted
> to get others' thoughts.

I've thought about this as well, but given that some widely used PECL
extensions are not ready for PHP 7.3 yet (for instance, yaml[1],
mailparse[2] and uopz[3]) (Remi may have more to say on this), it might
be better to still have two additional RCs (RC4 has been tagged
yesterday).  Furthermore, timelib has only recently been upgraded to
2018.01RC1[4], and I think it may need some time to be stable.

[1] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76522>
[2] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77045>
[3] <https://github.com/krakjoe/uopz/issues/79>
[4]
<http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=220a2239a6c2cc76621d5b7d0584ab3b2797958e>

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Christoph M. Becker