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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:20:25 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] apha3
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 22.11.2008, at 14:52, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> Work is still going on to finalize the namespace changes. I am not  
> sure when this will be done, I am sort of hoping Monday. Then we can  
> freeze Tuesday and release on Thursday if all goes well.


The good news, namespace changes are now finished ahead of alpha3.  
Documentation is also going to be available soon.

Now for the bad, I have continued the trend of being too optimistic  
for the alpha3 release date, which is now set for Tuesday December  
2nd. Freeze is therefore on the 28th, packaging will happen sometime  
on December 1st, allowing a period for important last minute fixes as  
well as build related work.

Until then please all make sure that you get whatever you can ready.  
Since we hope this will be our last alpha, it also means that this  
release will also mark the end for feature additions in self contained  
parts of the code. That being said I already know of a few items that  
I know will not make it into alpha3 that we might see before beta1. If  
you are unsure if your stuff is in this mental list, please let me or  
Johannes know just to make sure.

But if you have not gotten in contact with one of the RM's about your  
stuff yet, then its unlikely that we will consider it after beta1. Not  
because we are mean or because we do not realize that many of you only  
have your spare time to work on stuff, just because we really really  
have to get 5.3 out the door some day and guess what .. it looks like  
we will not even have a beta out this year! So think about it .. at  
least 2 beta's, 2-4 RC's and yeah .. it even looks optimistic to go  
stable in Q1 2009. Again this is open source, so the only people we do  
not have to release on a specific date, I just feel bad for all the  
work people have put into code months ago that is not getting released  
for so long.

Anyways, a few items from the top of my head that I know people were  
talking about:
- rounding patch
- stream's issues that Greg found and Arnaud recently commented on as  
well as other streams issues
- openssl patches
- gd work
- mysqlnd async stuff ready?
- interbase ready on windows?

Independent of that I need someone to handle the move of ext/mhash to  
PECL.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org