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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 Process
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi David,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
> Hi Internals
>
> It's already mid-october and according to our release schedule we have to
> release PHP 5.6 in 10 months from now. The past has shown that we need
> approx 5 months to stablize a release and go through alpha, beta and RC
> stages. Therefore I want to start a discussion on how to move forward
> with 5.6, to get a release schedule up as fast as possible so contributors
> now when to push their stuff and to vote on RFC's BEFORE the first beta.

I will add some of the known TODOs to https://wiki.php.net/todo/php56
in the next couple of days.

> I think over the last years it proved to be good to have the current
> RM support a new RM who then takes over after the final release
> (e.g. Julien basically does 5.5 alone now, but we worked a lot together
> during alpha/beta/RC). Therefore my suggestion is that Julien is going to
> help out with 5.6 and then we would need a new RM that can learn from julien
> on how to do things to later be able to do 5.6 on his own.
>
> Suggestions?

I can do it if necessary, we (ostc team) are part of it anyway from a
QA and windows point of view.


Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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