Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58497 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 5667 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2012 15:41:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2012 15:41:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sebastian@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sebastian@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 93.190.64.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sebastian@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 93.190.64.33 mail-3.de-punkt.de Received: from [93.190.64.33] ([93.190.64.33:39132] helo=mail-3.de-punkt.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1B/E3-20106-54AE05F4 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:41:58 -0500 Received: (qmail 9324 invoked by uid 511); 2 Mar 2012 15:41:53 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 9319, pid: 9321, t: 0.1189s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?0.0.0.0?) (sb%sebastian-bergmann.de@217.114.76.105) by 0 with ESMTPA; 2 Mar 2012 15:41:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4F50EA41.1080706@php.net> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:41:53 -0500 Organization: PHP Development Team User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) On 03/02/2012 07:34 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol I discussed with Arne Blankerts and Stefan Priebsch over breakfast today and Stefan had an interesting idea: why not announce (now) that PHP 5.3 will go into EOL a year after PHP 5.5 comes out? * Now until PHP 5.5 comes out: bug and security fixes for PHP 5.3 * From the release of PHP 5.5: security fixes for PHP 5.3 for a year Ideally, PHP 5.5 would be out in a year from now, so it would come down to one year of bug and security fixes and one year of security fixes only. Makes sense to me. -- Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/