Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47408 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56437 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2010 17:48:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Mar 2010 17:48:41 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.68 unknown Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:48:40 -0500 Received: from [217.114.211.68] ([217.114.211.68:29889] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4C/03-20429-77762AB4 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:48:40 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <76412548-72DE-42D8-979D-9BD52AF754F8@pooteeweet.org> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (SunOS) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Posted-By: 217.114.211.68 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 branch and trunk From: dsp@php.net (David Soria Parra) On 2010-03-18, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > >> I do agree that we need to do major releases more often, but just >> setting a time already feels wrong. It's still open source, so it's >> ready when it is ready. That of course should not mean that we should >> keep on adding features endlessly. > > for releases, avoid commits rushes right before the freeze, etc. As > I've been said before already, I'm all for a fixed release cycle, it > is then much easier to define clear priorities and roadmaps. +1. i think having a fixed release cycle has nothing to do with being opensource or not but with being more predictable for people depending on release dates.