Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58601 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46564 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2012 15:27:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Mar 2012 15:27:32 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 208.107.21.52 host-52-21-107-208.midco.net Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:27:32 -0500 Received: from [208.107.21.52] ([208.107.21.52:24450] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F9/D1-35539-46BD45F4 for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:27:32 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Posted-By: 208.107.21.52 Subject: Re: [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL From: weierophinney@php.net (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) On 2012-03-02, Pierre Joye wrote: > It should have been done before 5.4.0 was out, but better late than never. > > I put together four options here: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol > > I'm in favor of option #1, as it gives enough time to our users to > migrate by reducing the maintenance period to only one year. > > Suggestions or comments welcome, Considering that 5.3 adoption is still eclipsed by 5.2 adoption, to be honest, it feels like doing 1 year bugfix + 1 year security fix is the minimum necessary. By the time we get good adoption of 5.3, it will already be EOL'd. :-/ -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc