Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49263 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93778 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 15:24:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 15:24:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 188.40.37.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 188.40.37.16 hq1.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [188.40.37.16] ([188.40.37.16:44987] helo=hq1.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B6/D5-61991-E2F616C4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:24:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by hq1.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF58200C198; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:24:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at backendmedia.com Received: from hq1.backendmedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hq1.backendmedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wbfd7oXseRM5; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:24:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.80.26] (77-58-253-248.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.58.253.248]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mls@pooteeweet.org) by hq1.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFD93200C194; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:24:32 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4C616E48.9080309@php.net> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:24:26 +0200 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: References: <1281429940.969.2093.camel@guybrush> <255073A3-5250-4962-875A-7B2E69E40A48@pooteeweet.org> <1281450642.969.2575.camel@guybrush> <4C616E48.9080309@php.net> To: Sebastian Bergmann X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Version management From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 10.08.2010, at 17:20, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Am 10.08.2010 17:14, schrieb Derick Rethans: >> I think our current way work pretty well. There is 5.2 which is >> security-fix supported, 5.3 that is supported and trunk/5.4 that's on >> the way to alpha. > > This only works if manage to keep the time between "new code is > committed to trunk" and "new code is released" under a year. Otherwise > developers get frustrated. > > If we manage to release a PHP 5.X.0 release every year, we are a lot > more predictable. Which is good for downstream as well. +1 regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org