Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70364 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80154 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2013 23:08:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Nov 2013 23:08:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.240 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.240 imap2-1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from [198.187.29.240] ([198.187.29.240:38502] helo=imap2-1.ox.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 65/95-51929-5D682925 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:08:05 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.13] (unknown [94.13.99.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C1B55A0052; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:07:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <529286CA.9040805@ajf.me> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:07:54 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rowan Collins , internals@lists.php.net References: <52927B28.9050609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52927B28.9050609@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Making "backwards compatibility" discussions more constructive From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 24/11/13 22:18, Rowan Collins wrote: > a) Choose a bold, world-shattering feature, and rally the troops. There > are plenty of things that could be considered here, but I'll leave my > musing on those for elsewhere. How about we collect various features that unfortunately break backwards-compatibility in a branch, and then eventually release 6.0 once a world-shattering feature comes along? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/