Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58622 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72239 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2012 20:53:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Mar 2012 20:53:49 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 208.107.21.52 host-52-21-107-208.midco.net Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:53:49 -0500 Received: from [208.107.21.52] ([208.107.21.52:24618] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 3B/AE-35539-CD7255F4 for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:53:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3B.AE.35539.CD7255F4@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <4F50EA41.1080706@php.net> User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Posted-By: 208.107.21.52 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL From: weierophinney@php.net (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) On 2012-03-02, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > 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. +1. Since so many distros and ISPs tend to adopt late, this would keep them, and their users, covered for a reasonable time period, allowing for a cleaner migration path. -- 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