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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:47:49 -0500
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To: Mark Randall <marandall@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] An incubation period for RFCs? [repost as own thread]
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Mar 20, 2020, at 10:03, Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> On 20/03/2020 14:38, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>> How does the list feel about this idea?
>=20
> =46rom 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?
>=20
> 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.


To encourage userland testing of RC versions, I think it would be =
helpful to maintain Docker images of RCs.

I=E2=80=99m not suggesting the internals group take this on themselves. =
IMO, this is something that the community can take on and offer, and =
it=E2=80=99s something that needs to be done before we can expect =
significant testing of RCs.

Cheers,
Ben


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