Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:52755 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95942 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2011 11:16:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jun 2011 11:16:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=peter.e.lind@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=peter.e.lind@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.218.42 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: peter.e.lind@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.218.42 mail-yi0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.218.42] ([209.85.218.42:46236] helo=mail-yi0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D5/00-30161-8F077ED4 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:16:09 -0400 Received: by yie36 with SMTP id 36so173935yie.29 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:16:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=otFeWfh82c/Y8LZ7zk8UeKC0EZExOWIzgTzPvi0bAfw=; b=P9cETgQT0l7G+igVxvz/o7yuL8zUMwqpC0w8HX39k5B2ZErMfRQ/hYM4HbgGeSWwO+ ZC+ymotu5WS+Wc0NWwREUBQ80K2vza+nxXxy2QPdr4gNZ3Rvd0FduvXQQRA9CXpXADuy nGHbpQaVaKKq4keEbBCfCzlSY7WhXmi4FdKRA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=YackNf1rk3vwFrOSvFVN3qOkwK1UuHUtpvtPTizXIv+DTARIVixy1i/jsvk6NYYH5+ VUN3r5c26dQIP9EOa1Zo9+BWL6RASb8N/G8UDT04buv8Fs20Ui3kYYE03qSFLH4OQFIY yXmzld8CZdkDv9OgdOOF9Qw2U61eTuE5iy958= Received: by 10.91.41.14 with SMTP id t14mr592015agj.27.1307013365083; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:16:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.33.19 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 04:15:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4DE6BE66.3070007@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:15:45 +0200 Message-ID: To: Pierre Joye Cc: Christopher Jones , PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Final version, RFC release process From: peter.e.lind@gmail.com (Peter Lind) On 2 June 2011 13:03, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> On 2 June 2011 12:40, Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> *snip* >> >>> >>> No, it is the same that what we proposed. What we proposed is that >>> every release is actually a LTS release. What Ubuntu uses works fine >>> for distros given that it is a distro with an insane amount of totally >>> unrelated projects they distribute, and alternative repositories exist >>> for almost each of them. >>> >>> For a programming language, it is a totally different story. >>> >> >> That makes more sense - you were, however, arguing against random LTS >> releases which was rather confusing (there's a big difference between >> "every release is an LTS" and "all LTS releases are random" - those >> are not the only options). > > The randomness is about which release-features tuples would become a > LTS, that's something that can't apply well to a project like php. > It's hard to see how that would be any more or less random than now, given that it would still be a question of votes or consensus. Presumably, features would not be removed (unless they were bad for the language) and so they would still make it into LTS releases - the next one up. Anyway, I'll stop it here, as I doubt I'll convince you of anything (and vice versa). Just one thing to add: thanks for the work on PHP :) Much appreciated. Regards Peter -- WWW: plphp.dk / plind.dk LinkedIn: plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: kafe15