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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 Alpha?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

2010/8/10 Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>:
>
> On 10.08.2010, at 10:45, Johannes Schl=FCter wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:19 +0800, Adam Harvey wrote:
>>
>> Yes. Release early, release often is a good thing. What I'd also like is
>> to have a Ubuntu-like support model. Where we have one LTS (long term
>> supported) version (now for instance 5.3) which will get bug fixes for
>> quite some time and an "early access" version (5.4) which will receive
>> updates until the next "early access" (5.5) is there.
>>
>> Reasons:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0* Give people early access to features
>> =A0 =A0 =A0* Motivate developers as their additions are in a reachable f=
uture
>> =A0 =A0 =A0* Give users the chance to stay on the LTS version without ha=
ving
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0to do the full update on every release
>> =A0 =A0 =A0* Reduce the number of changes in "bugfix" releases
>
>
> Is LTS really something we need to provide? Seems to me like this is some=
thing the linux vendors take care of for the most part. Of course this leav=
es windows, OSX (and maybe some others).

We have to provide a well defined life cycle for our releases. The way
we do it now is not good, not for linux distros and not for
developers. It is impossible to get a mid term visibility.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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