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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:32:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 14:10 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote:
> There was no consensus, I am not sure where you get the idea.

By spending the time to go through the thread, taking the opinions
stated there, filtering out side discussions (like LTS based release
models etc) evaluating it (partly subjective) and summarizing it as in
the mail starting this thread.

> However, we discussed to wait a bit before proposing the RFC to
> clearly and cleanly define the EOL of 5.3.

Your message saying "5.4 was released on March, 1st. That's why I asked
this question now while it should have been done before." which is one
of the last from the thread doesnt' sound like delaying for additional
3/4 years for a decision.

> I will clean up this RFC and call for vote later this week (most
> likely tomorrow). It is very important to follow this step instead of
> simply say, hey, I will go down this way because I like it ;-)

feel free to do what you want.

> The delay is way too short for 3rd parties to adapt.

If people can provide reasons to extend it I'm open to hear those.

johannes