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Subject: Re: An incubation period for RFCs? [repost as own thread]
From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall)
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On 20/03/2020 14:38, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> How does the list feel about this idea?

 From what I have read, userland testing of even RC versions seems to be 
as infrequent as to practically be non-existent outside the major 
frameworks, having a usable number of people playing about with it when 
it's not even in for certain seems unrealistic?

Would it not also lead us to a situation where at any given time this 
incubation branch, or god forbid master, could be in any of 2^n 
different states depending on which engine features were available or 
not? That's a lot of extra uncertainty and possible unexpected interactions.

Mark Randall