Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:103379 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60434 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2018 21:57:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xdebug.org) (82.113.146.227) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2018 21:57:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 757DF10C010; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:12:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:12:20 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl To: "Christoph M. Becker" cc: Sara Golemon , PHP internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Skip 7.3.0RC6? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > 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] > [2] > [3] > [4] timelib should be considered stable, the last RC was just a data update. The commit ([4]) however, is unrelated to timelib? cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php, or become my Patron: https://www.patreon.com/derickr twitter: @derickr and @xdebug