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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha3
From: steph@php.net ("Steph Fox")

Hey Lukas, Johannes, all...

> We are not yet ready to schedule alpha3, but I am hoping we can do it  in 
> the first half of October. This is just a heads up to tell  everybody that 
> yes there will be an alpha3 and a general timeframe.
>
> This is not an invitation to go crazy and start committing features at 
> all. If you have something that you think is very low risk, 
> unquestionably useful, with ready tests and patches, then feel free to 
> approach me and Johannes. Otherwise just help us to get 5.3.0 out the 
> door, so that you can add whatever niceties into 5.3.1 :)

Does that mean we can drop namespace support until 6.0?

Please?

Rationale:

1) It's uber-contentious, and all the good stuff's only just starting to 
turn up that would allow sane design decisions
2) If it's released as-is, there would be no going back due to BC concerns

Simple as. I'm just worried about it all, and 5.3 should've been out months 
ago because it's otherwise brilliant.

- Steph