Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49264 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95825 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 15:25:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 15:25:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:50141] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 72/56-61991-87F616C4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:25:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E02EA10CEAA; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:25:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:25:42 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.derickrethans.nl To: Sebastian Bergmann cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4C616E48.9080309@php.net> Message-ID: References: <1281429940.969.2093.camel@guybrush> <255073A3-5250-4962-875A-7B2E69E40A48@pooteeweet.org> <1281450642.969.2575.camel@guybrush> <4C616E48.9080309@php.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Version management From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, 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. Yes, and that's why I want 5.4 alpha1 out soonish... Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug