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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 19:39:49 +0200
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To: Gabriel Caruso <carusogabriel@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 8.0 Feature Freeze happening today
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:39 AM Gabriel Caruso <carusogabriel@php.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Good morning Internals!
>>
>> This is a reminder that *today* we are Feature Freezing and branching
>> `PHP-8.0`, following the PHP 8.0 schedule (
>> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80#timetable).
>>
>> The branch will happen around
>>
>> - 1 am (+1 day) UTC+8 (SGT)
>> - 7 pm UTC+2 (CEST, my timezone)
>> - 6 pm UTC+1 (BST)
>> - 1 pm UTC-4 (EDT)
>>
>> Let us know if you have any questions!
>>
>> -- Gabriel Caruso
>>
>
> Sorry, I didn't catch that this message said feature freeze *and branch*.
>
> Please do not create a separate PHP-8.0 branch yet. A separate branch is
> only needed if anyone wants to start landing changes targeting PHP 8.1
> already -- as far as I'm aware, nobody is actively working on PHP 8.1 yet.
>
> Due to our git workflow, creating a branch now means that every single
> commit to PHP 8.0 will also require a merge into master. This is a rather
> big waste of time and CI resources if we expect PHP-8.0 and master to be
> identical in the near future.
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>

Preferably the branch would coincide with the ABI freeze, which I presume
would be RC1.

Nikita

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