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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:27:37 +0100
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Subject: Branch off PHP-7.4 early
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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Hi internals,

Based on previous discussions, it appears that our current plan is to
release PHP 8.0 after PHP 7.4. Normally we only branch off versions once
they reach beta stage, which means the PHP-7.4 branch will only be created
around summer 2019.

I would like to propose to branch off PHP-7.4 earlier this time and start
working on PHP 8.0 in the master branch. This will allow people to start
working on changes that are not suitable for PHP 7.4 (due to either
significant internal ABI breakage, or userland breakage).

Because each new branch introduces a lot of merge overhead for
contributors, I would further propose that merges should only go up to
PHP-7.4, while merges into master (PHP 8) will be performed occasionally,
on an as-needed basis, by the people working on it.

Regards,
Nikita

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